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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Kshitij
Co-founder of Orb, building billing infrastructure for modern software teams. Previously led real-time infrastructure at Asana. Studied computer science and philosophy at Caltech and was part of the South Park Commons founder fellowship.
Christian
deep tech designer
Maksim
Curious about healthcare, biotech, and prop-tech. Ex engineering manager & mobile engineer at Instacart. Volunteer at NovaUkraine.org
Chris
Christopher Kim is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is dedicated to identifying systemic inefficiencies and implementing transformative solutions to improve health outcomes.
Georgi
Founder of TAPP Security | Math + Stats @ Harvard | Prod, SPC & Z-Fellow
Sahil
Exploring GenAI infra and applications. Recovering roboticist moving on from autonomous vehicles after 8 years
Nikhil
Love building software. AI/ML Engineering Leader. Worked on a team at Apple which built RAG at Web Scale. Have worked on natural language understanding for Siri, Cortana, Bing, Kinect.
Daniel
CEO and co-founder of DoubleLoop, helping product teams build metrics-driven strategies. Previously led product at MDsave and GoodGuide (acquired by UL), with earlier roles at CBS Interactive and CNET. Brings two decades of experience in product leadership and data-informed development.
Rohan
Building an AI Growth Team. Previously built new products for SMBs and creators at Meta, Yelp, and Yahoo. As Founder, I started an 8 person company for non-profits to raise capital.
Kevin
I'm working on an AI media company. Think Fox News / MSNBC but driven fully by AI, and distributed on modern platforms like TikTok. Previously, I started a web-scale crawler that I sold in 2022. I also do standup comedy and anything outdoors.

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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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