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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Jason
Founding MLE at Sourceress (YC S17); founded neighborhoodsf.com, a conference series and real estate fund, for which I am a Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow; Sequoia Scout.
Grey
Founder Fellow 2. Currently building Starlight, the financial OS for web3 teams 💫
Shreepoorna
Founder of Arctus Aerospace, IIT Madras alumnus with extensive experience in drone R&D and defense tech. Led multiple UAV projects at IIT Madras; now developing high-altitude, long-endurance combat UAVs for defense applications. Based in Bangalore.
Maksim
Curious about healthcare, biotech, and prop-tech. Ex engineering manager & mobile engineer at Instacart. Volunteer at NovaUkraine.org
Malcolm
Malcolm was the first employee at Asana and worked on many pieces of the infrastructure there. Before that he was on the Android team at Google and wrote much of the initial version of Gmail for Android.
Hanson
Building https://arcwise.app to bring data science to everyone. Formerly worked on ML infrastructure and developer tools as a MLE/SWE @ Meta.
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
Ning
Full stack engineer and designer. I previously co-founded a health insurance marketplace, and before that worked as a engineer and data scientist at a few social networks.
Shashank
Co-founder @zango.ai. Building AI agents for compliance teams. Ex-Founder @ [fraud monitoring AI startup Thirdwatch] acquired by @Razorpay. Worked with @PhonePe, and led Product and engineering teams.
Neeraj
Entrepreneur with expertise in Indian SMBs, E-commerce, and Payments. Co-founded Zopper, scaling it to $20M+ funding and a PhonePe acquisition. Built PhonePe’s offline merchant ecosystem from 1M to 100M transactions. MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

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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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