Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

South Park Commons is a community of technologists ideating and validating what to build next. We believe this shouldn’t be done alone. Our members range from exited founders and highly-cited researchers to new graduates and first-time entrepreneurs. What unites us is ambition, ability, and a mutual commitment to helping each other navigate -1 to 0.

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A Modern Day Xerox PARC


We focus on highly technical builders in the -1 to 0. Over the last decade, we have had 1,000 members join us to start companies, pursue research, and work on other ambitious projects.

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Dan
Previously engineering @ startups such as Airtable and Heap. More recently founded a failed YC startup. Now exploring on-chain data infrastructure and analytics for web3 companies.
Kartik
Technologist with deep expertise in hardware R&D and AI/ML. Skilled in computational modeling, simulations, and statistical analyses. Focused on leveraging SoTA AI/ML to build AI-native enterprise solutions that drive innovation and efficiency
Julia
Curious tech generalist and longevity geek. Led $100M data portfolio @SAP, growth for 21 countries @Delivery Hero (we hit 1B orders a year!) and AI for top bank in Singapore. As a founder, built a hardtech company and longevity clinic. MS in CS.
Shahbaz
Shahbaz founded Sunain, an audio data research lab focused on creating the world’s most emotion-rich, diverse, high-fidelity audio datasets, and the evaluation suites to benchmark models. Prior to that, he worked at Apple, NASA and EA Sports.
Alex
Founder and CEO of Perl, focused on redefining search for the consumer internet. Previously built Lounge (acquired by Mozilla) and Oneminute, with early support from Greylock and the creators of Bebo and MySpace. Writes TLDR intros, a go-to newsletter for early-stage consumer founders and investors. Member of South Park Commons.
Vishal
Vishal is the co-founder and former CTO of Leap, building products to address loneliness among older adults. Previously co-founded Screenhero (acquired by Slack), where he later led real-time communications as a Senior Engineering Manager.
Priyaa
Previously, built design AI products at Microsoft and Snap; most recently was at Waymo. Also, a contributor to India Stack, developing technical policy frameworks for AI regulation. Currently, exploring AI agents for video creation.
Michael
Founder of Plato. Build internal tools without coding.
Dheemanth
building the foundational models which understand how it's said - capturing the emotion, tone, and intent that hold the real meaning and having conversations for voice first economies.
Abhinav
Abhinav is a builder with experience with Marketplaces, Search, and Distributed systems & ML Infra.

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Our members have started 250+ companies, including several unicorns. Others have become core contributors to leading research organizations, open-source software projects, and academic institutions.

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