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
Ben
Ben is the co-founder and CTO at Bevel. Previously he worked on pricing infrastructure at Opendoor. Studied Networked & Social Systems Engineering at UPenn and is passionate about building data-informed, user-first products.
Mike
Founded Skip (YC W18) now working on something new. Terrestrial and Internet Explorer.
Faraz
Faraz is a tech entrepreneur who previously founded two companies, including Screenhero, which sold to Slack. He's currently really into robotics.
Sam
building artificial creativity, ex ML@{Waymo, Google}.
Ang
I am a startup founder in artificial intelligence, with a variety of research and product experiences on autonomous driving, videos, cameras, maps, advertisements, etc. My research aims at building lifelong autonomous agents. Previously, I worked at Google DeepMind, Baidu Apollo, Facebook AI Research, CMU Robotics, Apple, Google Streetview, and Comcast Labs DC. I received my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland College Park. My PhD thesis is spatial perception from visual and linguisitc information.
Qianyuan
Nirva Labs CTO, building AI wearable hardware for mental wellbeing. Ex-Meta SWE manager.
Rob
into film, computation, writing, social systems. previously founding engineer at substack, founding engineer at fin.com, early team / technical lead at venmo
Toby
CEO Beem
Andrew
https://escargot.com
Rakesh
3rd time founder (2x YC) focused on the consumer space building tools to help make people’s lives easier. I connect with people over amazing food and good conversations. I love talking about world issues, politics, AI, consumer and commerce.

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