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Jay Kwon

Founder

CTO at Scoop

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedScoop · YC

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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.

CTO at ScoopYC F25

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YC

Jay went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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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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Scoop's investors · 5

ACTIVATE CAPITAL PARTNERSSan Francisco · $10M – $30M checksEast VenturesSingapore · $15M checksIndex VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checksNGP CapitalBerlin · $5M – $15M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Scoop

VPVincent Park
Vincent ParkCEO

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 CTO of Scoop.
What companies did Jay Kwon found?
Jay Kwon founded Scoop.

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