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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Samesh
Exploring ideas in consumer AI (companions/new forms of entertainment). Prev: Applied ML @ Microsoft Research Labs, Founding eng at Footium.club. Undergrad @ BITS Pilani. Builder at heart.
Pierre
Hi, I’m Pierre Ettori, a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling Cloud and SaaS products. I’ve led product and go-to-market efforts at companies like Google and Temporal, and I was the CEO and co-founder of Styra, creators of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. I was also part of Nicira’s journey to acquisition by VMware. As a former professional athlete turned tech leader, I bring energy, focus, and a passion for helping businesses adopt transformative technologies to build better products, faster.
Daniel
I'm Daniel, building SaaS for field worker employers. Previously, I worked early product & engineering roles at TikTok, Ramp, and Shop Cider. On the side, I'm a history buff and photographer :)
Nikhil
Computer science engineer from Bangalore who has was early in Product at multiple unicorn supply-chain startups in India and the US (Zetwerk - India (manufacturing), Convoy (trucking) & Granular (farming) in the US), worked at Microsoft and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Ayush
Focused on AI-augmented reading tools and modeling human behavior. Did a PhD in Computer Science (Machine learning and Recommendation Systems) at Stanford, Masters in Economics; undergrad at IIT Bombay Computer Science. Previously co-founded MoveUp AI and worked at Google. Always open to connecting — reach out to discuss mutual interests!
Rajiv
Founder and CEO of CodeComet, building an AI-powered copilot for modern engineering teams. Previously a founder at GutSavvy. Caltech-trained electrical engineer.
Julien
Engineer. Cofounder Pascal (SPC F25) Cofounder Ledger Investing (YC W17)
Arun
2x Founder SmartPhones, Fintech, AI Samsung, Startups, Govt, Non-Profits
Srinath
Srinath is the CEO and co-founder of Regie.ai, building AI-native tools for enterprise content creation. Previously co-founded Onera and was a founding engineer at BloomReach. A Carnegie Mellon PhD in algorithms, he’s spent two decades pushing forward NLP, search, and AI product infrastructure.
Idan
Currently Co-founding Epoch with Akash Bhatia! Previously at Unity, adjunct at IGM @ RIT, CTO at Sandbox VR, co-founder of Dream Garage, incepted Hackster.io, and created the gTar.

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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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