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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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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Sanjeev
Co-founder, coinvent.ai
Jouya
Jouya has worked on multi-physics simulations, perception for autonomy, human-computer interaction, mixed reality and wireless technologies. He is currently focusing on developing safe, secure, private and personalized AI agents.
Dina
Head of Product, Gen AI Data @Adobe | VC Scout @NEA | Former Founding Engineer at Source AI (acquired by DataRobot) | Working on something new
Alex
Product, prototyping, and R+D—I've done software, hardware, faceware, computer vision, always aimed at making people's interactions with computation as direct and physical as possible. I have many hot takes, which I'll share with the vaguest provocation.
Kun
Serial Entrepreneur, Autonomy Enthusiast, autonomous driving and robotics background.
Tong
Co-Founder & CEO of hologram.xyz. Previously 0x (Matcha), robotics, Penn, and freelance photography.
Kaiyuan
Exploring disaster and emergency response, let's chat! Worked in Insurance, let's chat!
Fangchang
Passionate about computer vision, machine learning, and 3D. Previously leading a research team at Apple. PhD in robotics from MIT.
Jeff
Working at the intersection of 3d simulation and digital fashion. Previously at Snowflake, Cruise, etc.
Marcel
Marcel is the founder of Apache Impala, which he started when he joined Cloudera in 2011 and for which he was the architect/TL until 2017. Before Cloudera, he worked on database technology at Google and several startups. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

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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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