# Jae Kwon

> Jae Kwon is a angel investor in San Francisco backing Software and Blockchain. See 1 investment, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Nov 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Nov 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yjkwon
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/jaekwon
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jkwon.fb

Jae Kwon is a angel investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Blockchain. Jae Kwon is the CEO of Tendermint, which he founded to save the world from needlessly wasting electricity to secure distributed ledgers. Along the way he realized that using quorums and cryptography instead of energy and hashing affords many advantages such as speed and scalability.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Onbloc | Onbloc is a software development business for Gno. land, providing essential tools for users and developers in the ecosystem. It operates community projects, including the development of core infrastructure services such as decentralized wallets and block explorers for users and developers |  | Angel | Oct 01, 2022 | https://www.onbloc.xyz/ |

1 of 1 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Jae Kwon invest in?

Jae Kwon invests primarily in Software and Blockchain startups, most often at Angel stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Jae Kwon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jae Kwon closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investment in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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