Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

South Park Commons is a community of builders, technologists, and domain-experts that challenge you, encourage you, and help you build and validate your ideas. People join us at every stage of their career: from just out of school to mid-career faculty, from first-time entrepreneur to serial founders with successful exits. We leverage our collective expertise to help our members discover new ways of impacting the world.

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OUR Members

A Modern Day Xerox PARC


We focus on extreme talent density in the -1 to 0. Over the last decade, we have had 800+ members join us to start companies, pursue research, and work on other ambitious projects.

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Kyle
Founder - Inflight.co, prev design at Airchat, Facebook, Tinder.
Marci
(aka "Marci") Was an Instructor on Udemy for topics on Python, ML, and AI. Now exploring GenAI for a new company for children's media.
Arman
Passionate about building a company that has significant social and economic impact. Right now I'm actively exploring the implications of a world where AI-generated content dominate the web and what it would look like the authenticate human artifacts (namely text).
Brandon
Exploring AI x Gaming ex: 100Thieves, AngelList
Claudia
Recent Oxford PhD graduate building and exploring AI solutions applied to maternal health. Interested in all things AI and healthcare.
Nishant
Co-founded Color (color.com), left in early 2020. Currently investing in companies at the intersection of biology + engineering.
Jonathan
Jonathan Mortensen (JMo) is a data scientist and software engineer. After graduating with a PhD in biomedical data science in 2016 from Stanford, Jonathan founded and sold two startups: Gyroscope to BlueVoyant and bit.io to Databricks. Now, JMo is exploring on the intersection of AI and databases.
Samantha
Samantha is a software engineer with previous experience in fintech & AI. She is currently working on projects in the crypto space.
Heejin
AI researcher & product lead with 10 years of experience. Previously, a Principal AI PM & Staff AI Researcher at Together AI, a cross-functional tech lead for the behavior prediction team at Waymo. Ph.D. in Reinforcement Learning at UPenn.
Braden
Building Clerk, Authentication for the Modern Web. Interested in making web applications more secure, and easier to build -- especially B2B SaaS. Web3 dabbler and vid climber of rocks and mountains, big and small.

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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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