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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Grey
Founder Fellow 2. Currently building Starlight, the financial OS for web3 teams 💫
Sanchit
Graduated from IIIT-Delhi, started career as founding employee at Zenatix, an IoT startup, contributing to its acquisition by Schneider Electric. Have worked at various stages of startups and scaled orgs like Apna Jobs and Microsoft. Enjoy building product driven tech. Also love science fiction and recently AI content generation.
Andrew
I'm a VC living in Hawaii. I work with founders investing in the things that make life worth living. My biggest hobbies are running (marathoner aiming to BQ) and surfing. Say hi!
Dheemanth
building the foundational models which understand how it's said - capturing the emotion, tone, and intent that hold the real meaning and having conversations for voice first economies.
Arpit
Arpit Garg is a product leader and entrepreneur focused on redefining preventive healthcare in India. With over a decade of experience in building and scaling user-first products, he is the Co-Founder of CENT AI, a next-generation healthcare startup
Ben
Ben graduated from UIUC with a thesis in high-available compute. He is a full-stack engineer from the transistor to the user-interface with 25 years of experience building Silicon, SaaS, and datacenters at IBM, AMD, and Tesla.
Hamza
Working on potrerolabs.xyz, a start-up to empower creators and their communities. Previously engineering at Facebook. Love to go skiing, camping and do other outdoor shenanigans.
Riley
Working with Ani Kunaparaju on tooling for GTM teams. Previously product @ Nuro.ai.
Rajat
Built and scaled B2B SaaS + Marketplace in manufacturing to $200M (Tiger Global, Alphawave). Bootstrapped a land records solution for financial institutions. IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad alumnus. Always learning and sometimes earning.
Amit
M.S. Biomedical Engineering; Experience in Computational Biology, Data Science and Product Development; Past Founder: IntelliGene (serving NCI designated cancer centers; acquired by Invitae); Past Experience: ORIEN Cancer Hospital Network, Merck, Invitae, Rosetta

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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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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
© 2026 All rights reserved.