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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Amir
Amir is a co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to serve and scale machine learning applications. Previously led data platform engineering at Clover Health and was Head of Engineering at Gumroad.
Alex
Alex is the co-founder of Playbook.com, a cloud storage and collaboration tool for creatives. Before that, he studied at CMU and was an engineer at Addepar and Opendoor.
Ankit
Ankit is a Principal at South Park Commons, supporting founders from idea to company. Previously led U.S. expansion and growth at Servify and co-founded iService, a consumer device repair and service platform. He brings deep experience in GTM, operations, and cross-border scaling.
Irfan-ali
Former Instagram Product Lead with experience launching 0-to-1 products that grow quickly and persist. Can help with anything from recipe developing GTM plans to strategies for sparking network effects and building marketplace businesses.
Jared
Jared has been developing software for over 20 years. He has started multiple companies and a non-profit. He started the Boston office for Pivotal and served as the Director for the first year of operations. He is currently exploring Web3.
Peter
I’m currently exploring web3. Previously I cofounded SBLY.com, a bootstrapped company that hit $90M in TR.
Avery
Co-founder @symphoniclabs, UWaterloo Eng 24 prev @tesla, Building neural interafaces for silent speech
Oliver
Ex-Founder of Antimetal, SWE at Microsoft and Census. Passionate about solving the software crisis and building best-in class developer tooling to raise the default quality of new software.
AJ
2nd time founder / Former head of ML at an AI startup (Hirefly) Build AI for eCommerce brands
Mohak
CEO of Atlys, building a modern platform to simplify global travel documentation. Previously a software engineer at Pinterest, where he spent over three years scaling consumer products. Studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon and is passionate about seamless, tech-enabled travel experiences.

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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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