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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Aaron
Originally from a tiny town in New Mexico, now in NYC. Previously engineering @ Ramp, $BFLY, decently successful bootstrapper, violinist. Ask me about literary fiction — long and short.
Harish
Exploring consumer AI use-cases. Prev. built bluelearn - one of India's top education apps. Youtuber with 180k subscribers.
Mike
Michael graduated from Harvard College in 2017 with a master’s degree in CS, as well as a bachelor’s degree in CS and statistics. During college, he worked in the George Church Lab automating multiplexing technologies for cell culture experiments.
Ciro
Founder. Went from bootstrap to acquisition to IPO in 5 years. Really into startups, ML, NLP, Data and strange music.
Damon
Software engineer & technical leader in Games. I've worked in the industry for 15 years at studios ranging from my own startup to AAA. If you're interested in the games space hit me up.
Pranav
Business engineer. Previously worked in pre-seed, seed, series A engineering/adjacent roles. Interests in financial markets, fintech, and infrastructure.
Divyang
Co-founder and CEO of Byte Kitchen (restaurant tech company serving customers such as Oren's Hummus, Little Chihuahua, Mamahuhu, World Wrapps etc.). Previously worked in Investment Banking and Private Equity. Penn Engineering + Harvard MBA.
Thomas
Neurotech / BCI. Working with Anthony Kirilov and Nicole Dobreva :) Prev: co-founded Chai, quant trading/gambling, astro at Cambridge.
Tom
ex-DeepMind researcher interested in interpretability, data curation & foundation models (especially in new domains)
Crystal
Hi I'm Crystal. My background is in AI and robotics. Some of the cool things I've built in the past are: game theory AI engines for multiple Department of Defense applications, an on-device 3D live mapping algorithm for a self-driving robots, and an end to end simulation and testing engine for home autonomy robots. I am currently interested in using AI/robotics to accelerate science discovery. Would love to chat and connect!

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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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