About
Jay Kwon is co-founder and CTO of Scoop, with prior experience in applied AI at Google Search, including work on Gemini chain-of-thought reasoning. He has supported clinical trial design for ALS therapeutics at Corestem and worked previously at Genentech and CJ Bioscience. He holds an MS in Computer Science and Biotechnology from Penn.
Founder/CTO at ScoopYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Jay went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Scoop's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Jay can intro founders to Scoop's investors below.
Scoop's investors · 3
Co-founders at Scoop
VP
Vincent ParkFounder/CEO
Experience
- Scoop (YC F25)Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleSenior Software Engineer2024 — 2025Mountain View, California, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2020 — 2024San Francisco, California, United States
- Corestem IncBioinformatics Engineer2018 — 2019Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Korea
- ChunLab, Inc.Full Stack Developer2016 — 2018Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea
- GenentechCampus Ambassador to the University of Pennsylvania2015 — 2016University of Pennsylvania
- GenentechPTR Biologics Program Management Office Graduate Intern2015San Francisco Bay Area
- Smilow Center for Translational ResearchBioinformatics Technician2015 — 2016Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Skills & more
Ruby on Rails23JavaScript28Backbone.js13SQL15HTML23CSS15jQuery16Python7Matlab1Git20AJAX11Arduino
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PhotoshopPython (Programming Language)BioinformaticsRSpecHerokuObject Oriented DesignPair ProgrammingTest Driven DevelopmentData AnalysisLanguages English · Japanese · Korean
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jay Kwon?
- Jay Kwon is co-founder and CTO of Scoop, with prior experience in applied AI at Google Search, including work on Gemini chain-of-thought reasoning. He has supported clinical trial design for ALS therapeutics at Corestem and worked previously at Genentech and CJ Bioscience. He holds an MS in Computer Science and Biotechnology from Penn.
- Where does Jay Kwon work?
- Jay Kwon is Founder/CTO of Scoop.
- What companies did Jay Kwon found?
- Jay Kwon founded Scoop.
- Where did Jay Kwon go to school?
- Jay Kwon studied at University of Pennsylvania (Master of Computer and Information Technology, Computer Science); Y Combinator; University of Pennsylvania (Master of Biotechnology, Biotechnology).
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