# Jayson Kim

> Jayson Kim is a seed investor at Legendary Ventures backing E-Commerce. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Legendary Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/legendary-ventures)
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaysonkim
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/realjaysonkim
- Website: http://startups.columbia.edu/funds?permalink=legendary-ventures

Jayson Kim is a seed investor at Legendary Ventures focused on E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence. Jayson Kim is the General Partner of Legendary Ventures. He attended Columbia University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 20% |
| Fashion | 3 | 12% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 12% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 12% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 24% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 16% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 52% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 4% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |
| South Korea | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| XRAY Commerce | XRAY Commerce is an AI-powered merchandising platform that helps ecommerce brands automate their product content, enhance images, and create photorealistic 3D visuals — all from a single, intuitive workflow.Built for digital merchandisers and ecommerce teams, XRAY reduces the time and cost of launching high-converting product pages by automatingdescription writing, image cleanup, metadata enrichment, and video generation. Unlike generic AI tools, XRAY learns your brand voice and enforces your style guide across every SKU.We’re on a mission to empower merchandisers with tools that reduce busywork, improve creative quality, and make ecommerce more human. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Bao'd Up | Bao'd UP is a food & beverage company focusing on delivering affordable, convenient and healthy Asian food to the mass | $250K | Pre-Seed | Oct 25, 2024 |  |
| xAI | XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. | $6B | Series B | May 26, 2024 |  |
| Littleone | Littleone is a parenting platform that covers various aspects of childcare. With baby-tech devices, we monitor babies' crucial biometric information and utilize data to pediatric online. | $300K | Seed | Aug 26, 2023 |  |
| The Boring Company | The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction company that facilitates underground transportation networks. It aims to create safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels. | $5M |  | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| The Boring Company | The Boring Company is an infrastructure and tunnel construction company that facilitates underground transportation networks. It aims to create safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels. | $675M | Series C | Apr 20, 2022 |  |
| Novelship | Novelship is a marketplace for buyers and sellers of limited-edition sneakers, apparel, and collectibles from the world's most popular and cutting-edge brands such as Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, Supreme, and Kaws. Novelship serves the sneaker and streetwear community with authentic products by carefully curating and professionally authenticatingevery item in its collection. | $10M | Series A | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Emerge | Emerge is a consumer technology company building a multi-sensory communication platform to bridge distance and time—through touch, sight, sound, and brain activity, powered by emotion AI, to allow users to digitize and transmit their emotions. With over 2 billion people worldwide feeling disconnected from others—one of the greatest life hazards ofour generation—it's time for a new communication platform that focuses on what really matters: our emotional connection with others.The first step is to introduce touch to virtual interactions—via TVs, AR, and VR displays. Emerge Wave-series is the anchor product line for the emotion AI. The patented consumer device emits precise ultrasonic forcefields that can be physically felt with bare hands—imagine a “virtual high five” or holding hands across the globe, with no gloves or controllers needed.We are proud of our impact-focused and diverse team—70% of us are immigrants and first-generation Americans. We are former entrepreneurs and industry veterans who have developed and launched products in the fields of consumer electronics, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, gaming, and space exploration.Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, CA, Emerge is backed by venture capital firms including M13 and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, and other notable investors such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and co-founders of Blizzard Entertainment, Twitch, and Riot Games. | $5M |  | Feb 20, 2022 |  |
| XFROST | XFROST manufacturers high protein, nutritious ice cream for institutions in K-12, Healthcare, and Universities |  | Seed | Feb 17, 2022 |  |
| Flexfrost | Flexfrost's mission is to help audiences learn about proper nutrition with a wholistic approach to food. | $500K | Seed | Feb 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CBC Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cbc-group-b40f) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chaac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chaac-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Clearvision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clearvision-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hof-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Legendary Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Legendary Ventures is a venture capital fund that accelerates value creation for consumer retail companies. The firm represents a unique collaboration between venture capitalists and retail executives, including the way it selects portfolio companies, the role it plays in optimizing product development for the consumer markets, and its success inidentifying acquisition partners, to drive stellar returns for its investors.

5 contacts available at Legendary Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kent Anderson | Executive Adviser/Partner | — |
| Catherine Rhee | Associate Partner | — |
| Colby Cox | Venture Scout | — |
| Jamie Driver | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamie-driver |
| Jayson Kim | General Partner | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jayson Kim invest in?

Jayson Kim invests primarily in E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence and Fashion startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Jayson Kim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jayson Kim closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 25 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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