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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Will
I enjoy working at early-stage companies to have a bigger impact. Having experienced a few mildly successful exits at Canadian startups, I am taking the leap to become a founder and start building something exciting.
Daniel
Daniel Tatenko, seasoned detective - focused on leveraging AI to streamline crime reporting, reduce officer workload, and improve public safety by enhancing collaboration between law enforcement and the community.
Arman
Passionate about building a company that has significant social and economic impact. Right now I'm actively exploring the implications of a world where AI-generated content dominate the web and what it would look like the authenticate human artifacts (namely text).
Evan
Tinkerer with a background in AI and Education, interested in building tools for better pedagogy and tools for thinking. Currently thinking about how to build a better online reading experience. Let's chat about LLMs, Jose Luis Borges, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Nick
Joined by the former CTO and founding engineer of Doctor on Demand, Nick is working to provide greater transparency to patients and providers. Starting with billing for his mother's practice in Washington DC, they are live nationwide and looking for smart and ambitious folks who want to help drive innovation in healthcare
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.
Anil
Engineering leader and 2x founder; CS at UT Austin. Past experience at Cisco and Apple. Led teams developing media and ML platforms, including on-device infrastructure and optimizations for running Apple Intelligence language & vision models.
David
David Yang is co-founder of Lightweight Labs, the fastest way to manage your financial data in QuickBooks.
Danny
Immunologist and data scientist building therapeutics that matter.
Ben
Ben graduated from UIUC with a thesis in high-available compute. He is a full-stack engineer from the transistor to the user-interface with 25 years of experience building Silicon, SaaS, and datacenters at IBM, AMD, and Tesla.

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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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