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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Sriram
Founded Whodat (AR & spatial mapping), acquired by BYJU'S. Led immersive STEM experiences blending computer vision, gaming & storytelling. Gamer → Modder → Developer → Founder/CEO → VP Product.
William
Currently exploring the intersection of generative audio and artists rights. Previously, I helped build Woven Science, an evergreen fund and venture studio supporting a portfolio of 25 mental health companies. xGoogle, xFulbright. Before that spent too much time at Google. I enjoy working in spaces between art and science, and spend spare time reading, writing, surfing, and skiing.
Alvaro
Currently co-founder and CEO at Orb, building next-gen billing infrastructure for modern software companies. Previously engineering leader at Asana and a member of South Park Commons. Alvaro holds dual degrees from MIT and is passionate about product-focused engineering and infrastructure that scales.
Shruti
Former founder excited to start my next company! My strengths are in Product & Ops. Ex-Google, Ex-Stripe.
Abhinav
Exploring AI for connecting humans. Formerly Director PM & Design at Scale AI, ML Eng at Facebook, first engineer at Duolingo.
Nic
cofounder of Koah Labs - ads for AI apps
Pacssu
PACSSU, Product Designer & Team Builder. Most recently, VP of Product Design at Ro, now exploring addressing lonlieness.
Shahvir
Founder and CEO of Human Computer Lab
Shashank
Shashank is the co-founder of Cent AI.
Raghav
Software engineer and technical leader. Formerly: co-founded lightpage.com, led the AI engineering team at Airtable to first public launch, led internal deployment of Presto at Meta. Masters in distributed systems from Princeton.

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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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