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
Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.
Aaron
LA > NY. Serial entrepreneur and product innovator. Founded Felt, a digital mental health company, scaling to 200K+ users and $10M ARR before successful exit. MBA from Kellogg. Growth hacking, marketing and brand building. Loves a laugh.
Abhishek
Cofounder @Riverline. Multiple failed ventures, started selling software at 19. Passionate about building sustainable businesses. Enjoy crashing drones in my downtime, now focused on growing B2B SaaS
Dilan
CEO @ System2 - on a mission to bring a fitness coach to every human. Obsessed with personal growth & futurism. Serial founder, Investor, YC08, CTO Scoopler (aq Google), CS, Physics @ MIT
Srijan
Currently building in stealth. Previously VP of Platform Engineering at Dream11, where I led a 120-person team across Developer Experience, Observability, DevOps, FinOps, and Authentication. We've built an internal developer platform that abstracts
Augustine
RL PhD at UCL, working on LLMs and reasoning at vmax, prev: AI safety at Redwood research, NeuroAI at CSHL, AI for genomics at lllumina
Michelle
Exploring mass electrification and ways to build critical power grid infrastructure.
Shukan
Currently exploring the future of RPA / workflow automation in the new AI age. Prev Senior-SWE at Doppel / Brex / Level, working across search, payments, & agentic cybersecurity. Love the outdoors and staying active via dance, running, & basketball.
Brandon
Co-founder of Power, building a network for medical research. Previously led revenue and operations at Setter (acquired by Thumbtack) and later helped integrate the teams as Head of BizOps at Thumbtack.
Prasad
Prasad is the co-founder of Dashworks (Acq. Hubspot).

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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