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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OUR Members

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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Bharat
Engineering leader & distributed systems expert. Ex-VP Eng at Dream11, scaled teams & systems powering $800M biz with 260M+ users. IIT Delhi grad 2nd time founder, building in stealth. Passionate about tech, scale, and creating high-impact products.
Dhruv
Dhruv is an ex-Googler with experience working on Machine Learning problems involving language and privacy. He likes thinking about big problems from first principles, appreciates thoughtful design in tech, and enjoys writing.
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.
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others
Alejandro
Founding team at Valiu (access to USD in Colombia and Venezuela, YC S19), first PM at Bitrefill (world's largest crypto e-commerce site). Now leading the MetaMask Card product.
Christian
deep tech designer
Varun
I'm part of the FF4 -- previously worked at Transferwise and Instacart. Exploring new ideas and always excited to meet new people so please reach out!
Ryan
Ryan is the co-founder of Mindscribe.
Arpit
Arpit Garg is a product leader and entrepreneur focused on redefining preventive healthcare in India. With over a decade of experience in building and scaling user-first products, he is the Co-Founder of CENT AI, a next-generation healthcare startup
Zain
Founder of Eureka, a healthcare company helping patients with chronic conditions get control over their symptoms.

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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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