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.

south park commons community

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.

See More
Sahil
Exploring GenAI infra and applications. Recovering roboticist moving on from autonomous vehicles after 8 years
Danny
Tender Claws co-founder working on a synesthetic social network for AI glasses: a side-channel that surfaces shared context as you speak. I make delightful, polished products; recent: Face Jumping took SXSW ’25 Audience Choice.
Dhawal
Successful entrepreneur with background in eCommerce, AR, & Ad-Tech. Previously, I co-founded a venture backed startup that resulted in a successful exit to Walmart. I can help on go-to-market plans as well as product-market fit problems
Kaiyuan
Exploring disaster and emergency response, let's chat! Worked in Insurance, let's chat!
Vishal
Founder, Embedding.store • SPC Fellow • ML at Twitter, Microsoft • Singer, Songwriter
Henrik
Impact focused product leader with a passion for design and technology. During my career I've built companies and products from zero to one as well as been through scaling as an operator and executive.
Nicholas
Part of the Founder Fellowship: excited to build something new with SPC!
Dhruv
Product manager, Deep Mind and Google Search Tech lead, Google Search and Microsoft Office I want to turn tech research into viable businesses. Know the most about NLP and ML and very interested in robotics, education, energy and space.
Thomas
Previously was at Ramp, ready to build!
Michelle
Michelle Lu co-founded Viralspace.ai, an AI for Ad Creative company that achieved 7-figure revenue and an 8-figure exit. There, she built performance prediction and recommendation systems, and enterprise-grade generative AI creative tools (25B+ creative variants/month) for some of the most iconic brands in the world. Before that, she studied Product Design (MechE) at Stanford and conducted research in design and neurobiology. She loves all things creative (art, music, design, fashion, ballet), AI, and HCI.

Our Spaces

What our members do


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.

google ai