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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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.
Georgi
Founder of TAPP Security | Math + Stats @ Harvard | Prod, SPC & Z-Fellow
Michael
Founder of Plato. Build internal tools without coding.
Dilan
CEO @ System2 - on a mission to bring a fitness coach to every human. Obsessed with personal growth & futurism. Serial founder, Investor, YC08, CTO Scoopler (aq Google), CS, Physics @ MIT
Tom
ex-DeepMind researcher interested in interpretability, data curation & foundation models (especially in new domains)
Luke
SPC Founder Fellow - ex-ML Engineer exploring professional networking saas
Christian
deep tech designer
Dmitry
I'm interested in exploring applications of AI and LLM models into fields from search, recommendations, SWE productivity, or creative productivity tooling. I've worked on products, teams, and systems in ML and data, and has built teams from early to late stage at consumer social, B2B SaaS (security) and looking into new domains.
Jacinda
Jacinda is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Apero Health, building tools to streamline medical billing and infrastructure. Previously CTO and founding engineer at Doctor On Demand, where she scaled telehealth platforms from the ground up.
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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