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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Qianyuan
Nirva Labs CTO, building AI wearable hardware for mental wellbeing. Ex-Meta SWE manager.
Abiel
Co-founder and CTO of Comun, building banking infrastructure to expand financial access for immigrant communities. Previously an early engineer at Brex. Studied computer science at Stanford and is passionate about mission-driven systems that scale.
Dinkar
Previously, Director of Product at Meta and enthusiastic about applications of AI
Emad
Tech founder and CTO
Harshvardhan
Hey, you can call me Harsh! Founder of Metarch (metarch.ai) & Manifold Research (manifoldrg.com). Previously, AI Research Scientist & Faculty @ Georgia Tech, Peraton/Perspecta Labs, Paperspace ATG, Harvard My aim is to research, build, and commercialize high leverage science and technology to advance human civilization, starting with Next Generation AI.
Tony
Tony is the co-founder of Sheetrocks.
Rohit
Quantum physicist turned entrepreneur. Now building the optical highway to cosmos.
Julien
Engineer. Cofounder Pascal (SPC F25) Cofounder Ledger Investing (YC W17)
Fangchang
Founder and CEO at Nuance Labs. Previously Apple. PhD in Robotics and ML from MIT.
Grant
Grant is the co-founder and CEO of Gamma, building a new medium for modern business communication. Previously COO at ClearBrain (acquired by Amplitude) and Head of Strategic Finance at Optimizely.

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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.

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