# Jonathan Johnson

> Jonathan Johnson is a Series B investor at Overstock backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Overstock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/overstock-com)
- Location: Salt Lake City, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanjohnson3/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jjohnsonnow
- Website: https://x.com/jjohnsonnow

Jonathan Johnson is a Series B investor at Overstock in Salt Lake City focused on Blockchain and FinTech. Jonathan Johnson has been the chairman of Overstock's board of directors since April 2014, transitioning to the position after five years as the company's president and later the acting CEO and executive vice chairman of the board. Johnson joined Overstock in 2002 as the company's general counsel, and has held various business andlegal related positions within the company prior being named president. During this time, he has been an integral part of Overstock's meteoric growth from a small start-up to a publicly-traded company with $1.3 billion in sales and over 1,500 employees.In addition to his duties at Overstock, Johnson is a member of the Better Business Bureau's National Partner Leadership Circle, the executive committee of the Board of Trustees of the Utah Technology Council, the board of directors of the Utah Foundation and the Board of Governors of the Salt Lake Chamber. He was also the founding chairman of the Salt Lake Chamber's Clean Air Task Force, a group dedicated to protecting and improving Utah's air quality.Prior to joining Overstock, Johnson was with TenFold Corporation in various positions, including CFO and General Counsel. Before that, he practiced corporate law in Los Angeles with two international law firms. He also served as a judicial clerk at the Utah Supreme Court.Johnson received a Bachelor's Degree in Japanese from Brigham Young University, studied at Osaka University of Foreign Studies in Japan as a Ministry of Education Scholar, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the J. Ruben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 45% |
| FinTech | 4 | 36% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 27% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 18% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 18% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 27% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 45% |
| Barbados | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GrainChain | GrainChain creates an exchange platform with blockchain-based solutions for prompt payment and accountability.Since the dawn of agriculture, human beings have continually sought higher efficiency and security in the production and trading of food. The modern age has seen the economics of agriculture and soft commodities repeatedly transformed bysudden technical innovations, a pattern which will continue to repeat itself. In the 1850’s advancements in refrigeration and food preservation dramatically lowered food prices and increased availability. In the 1940’s innovation came in the form of gasoline tractors replacing horse drawn plows. Today, blockchain technology is poised to play a major part in the agricultural revolution of our time. GrainChain’s patent pending solution utilizes blockchain technology to address numerous issues present within the soft commodities markets, such as fraud at all stages, large and small-scale corruption, payment delays, access to futures commodities market, and a cycle of debt that is difficult to escape. GrainChain changes this. GrainChain utilizes the well-known properties of blockchains to address the systemic problems present in soft commodities markets, an industry in which the GrainChain team already has first hand experience in building software solutions. The GrainChain system greatly increases transparency and accountability within the agriculture business by eliminating disparate and wasteful paper trails, greatly eliminating the opportunity for fraud and dramatically reducing time and costs. It ensures the prompt and secure execution of contracts between farmers and buyers, by both automatically facilitating payment to the farmer and making available the corresponding financial instrument for trading on commodities markets while verifying it is backed by only real assets in the system. This shortens a process that can currently take weeks down to a nearly instantaneous one. GrainChain benefits farmers, buyers, brokers, storage facilities, banks, suppliers of agricultural goods, governments, and ultimately every food consumer on earth; everyone that benefits from a more honest and efficient agricultural industGrainChain was first introduced in 2013 by an inventor and entrepreneur Luis Macias. | $29M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| tZERO | tZERO is a technology firm that was founded with the goal of utilizing distributed ledger technology to revolutionize financial technologies so that they are more efficient, accessible and transparent.tZERO is not a registered broker-dealer, funding portal, underwriter, investment bank, investment adviser or investment manager, and is notproviding brokerage, investment banking or underwriting services, recommendations or investment advice to any person, and does not provide any brokerage services. tZERO takes no part in the negotiation or execution of secondary market transactions for the purchase or sale of securities and at no time has possession of investor funds or securities in connection with such transactions. | $15M | Series B | Aug 26, 2022 |  |
| Neighbor | Neighbor is an internet company that specializes in the fields of public storage, economic empowerment, sharing economy, and peer-to-peer marketplace. It connects people who have unused space in their homes, garages, or apartments to renters who are looking for affordable storage. | $53M | Series B | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Bitt | Bitt is a global financial software company that catalyzes the transformation from traditional to digital currency systems. Our solutions are critical for the operationalization of CBDC and digital currencies for all ecosystem participants. The Bitt Digital Currency Management System (DCMS) enables central banks to efficiently deploy a CBDC oftheir own, while also enabling financial institutions to integrate with internet native payment rails (CBDCs, stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies), manage their treasury operations, and provide powerful payment services to retail and enterprise clients. | $8M |  | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| GrainChain | GrainChain creates an exchange platform with blockchain-based solutions for prompt payment and accountability.Since the dawn of agriculture, human beings have continually sought higher efficiency and security in the production and trading of food. The modern age has seen the economics of agriculture and soft commodities repeatedly transformed bysudden technical innovations, a pattern which will continue to repeat itself. In the 1850’s advancements in refrigeration and food preservation dramatically lowered food prices and increased availability. In the 1940’s innovation came in the form of gasoline tractors replacing horse drawn plows. Today, blockchain technology is poised to play a major part in the agricultural revolution of our time. GrainChain’s patent pending solution utilizes blockchain technology to address numerous issues present within the soft commodities markets, such as fraud at all stages, large and small-scale corruption, payment delays, access to futures commodities market, and a cycle of debt that is difficult to escape. GrainChain changes this. GrainChain utilizes the well-known properties of blockchains to address the systemic problems present in soft commodities markets, an industry in which the GrainChain team already has first hand experience in building software solutions. The GrainChain system greatly increases transparency and accountability within the agriculture business by eliminating disparate and wasteful paper trails, greatly eliminating the opportunity for fraud and dramatically reducing time and costs. It ensures the prompt and secure execution of contracts between farmers and buyers, by both automatically facilitating payment to the farmer and making available the corresponding financial instrument for trading on commodities markets while verifying it is backed by only real assets in the system. This shortens a process that can currently take weeks down to a nearly instantaneous one. GrainChain benefits farmers, buyers, brokers, storage facilities, banks, suppliers of agricultural goods, governments, and ultimately every food consumer on earth; everyone that benefits from a more honest and efficient agricultural industGrainChain was first introduced in 2013 by an inventor and entrepreneur Luis Macias. | $8.2M |  | Mar 08, 2020 |  |
| GrainChain | GrainChain creates an exchange platform with blockchain-based solutions for prompt payment and accountability.Since the dawn of agriculture, human beings have continually sought higher efficiency and security in the production and trading of food. The modern age has seen the economics of agriculture and soft commodities repeatedly transformed bysudden technical innovations, a pattern which will continue to repeat itself. In the 1850’s advancements in refrigeration and food preservation dramatically lowered food prices and increased availability. In the 1940’s innovation came in the form of gasoline tractors replacing horse drawn plows. Today, blockchain technology is poised to play a major part in the agricultural revolution of our time. GrainChain’s patent pending solution utilizes blockchain technology to address numerous issues present within the soft commodities markets, such as fraud at all stages, large and small-scale corruption, payment delays, access to futures commodities market, and a cycle of debt that is difficult to escape. GrainChain changes this. GrainChain utilizes the well-known properties of blockchains to address the systemic problems present in soft commodities markets, an industry in which the GrainChain team already has first hand experience in building software solutions. The GrainChain system greatly increases transparency and accountability within the agriculture business by eliminating disparate and wasteful paper trails, greatly eliminating the opportunity for fraud and dramatically reducing time and costs. It ensures the prompt and secure execution of contracts between farmers and buyers, by both automatically facilitating payment to the farmer and making available the corresponding financial instrument for trading on commodities markets while verifying it is backed by only real assets in the system. This shortens a process that can currently take weeks down to a nearly instantaneous one. GrainChain benefits farmers, buyers, brokers, storage facilities, banks, suppliers of agricultural goods, governments, and ultimately every food consumer on earth; everyone that benefits from a more honest and efficient agricultural industGrainChain was first introduced in 2013 by an inventor and entrepreneur Luis Macias. | $8.2M | Series B | Mar 08, 2020 |  |
| PeerNova | PeerNova’s mission is to empower firms to make confident and timely decisions using high-quality data. Cuneiform® is a zero-code platform that provides continuous data quality and simplifies exception resolution across internal and external data sources.The Cuneiform Platform instills confidence in data by measuring data quality metrics andallowing users to resolve data quality errors quickly. This enables firms to increase operational efficiency, improve business performance, and address executive, stakeholder, and regulatory inquiries confidently and promptly.Founded by entrepreneurs with deep expertise in data and financial infrastructure, PeerNova is a Silicon Valley technology company with sales offices in New York and London. For more information about PeerNova, please visit https://peernova.com. | $31M |  | Oct 22, 2019 |  |
| Bitt | Bitt is a global financial software company that catalyzes the transformation from traditional to digital currency systems. Our solutions are critical for the operationalization of CBDC and digital currencies for all ecosystem participants. The Bitt Digital Currency Management System (DCMS) enables central banks to efficiently deploy a CBDC oftheir own, while also enabling financial institutions to integrate with internet native payment rails (CBDCs, stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies), manage their treasury operations, and provide powerful payment services to retail and enterprise clients. | $3M | Series A | Aug 01, 2019 |  |
| GrainChain | GrainChain creates an exchange platform with blockchain-based solutions for prompt payment and accountability.Since the dawn of agriculture, human beings have continually sought higher efficiency and security in the production and trading of food. The modern age has seen the economics of agriculture and soft commodities repeatedly transformed bysudden technical innovations, a pattern which will continue to repeat itself. In the 1850’s advancements in refrigeration and food preservation dramatically lowered food prices and increased availability. In the 1940’s innovation came in the form of gasoline tractors replacing horse drawn plows. Today, blockchain technology is poised to play a major part in the agricultural revolution of our time. GrainChain’s patent pending solution utilizes blockchain technology to address numerous issues present within the soft commodities markets, such as fraud at all stages, large and small-scale corruption, payment delays, access to futures commodities market, and a cycle of debt that is difficult to escape. GrainChain changes this. GrainChain utilizes the well-known properties of blockchains to address the systemic problems present in soft commodities markets, an industry in which the GrainChain team already has first hand experience in building software solutions. The GrainChain system greatly increases transparency and accountability within the agriculture business by eliminating disparate and wasteful paper trails, greatly eliminating the opportunity for fraud and dramatically reducing time and costs. It ensures the prompt and secure execution of contracts between farmers and buyers, by both automatically facilitating payment to the farmer and making available the corresponding financial instrument for trading on commodities markets while verifying it is backed by only real assets in the system. This shortens a process that can currently take weeks down to a nearly instantaneous one. GrainChain benefits farmers, buyers, brokers, storage facilities, banks, suppliers of agricultural goods, governments, and ultimately every food consumer on earth; everyone that benefits from a more honest and efficient agricultural industGrainChain was first introduced in 2013 by an inventor and entrepreneur Luis Macias. | $2.5M |  | Dec 04, 2018 |  |
| Voatz | Voatz is a mobile election voting platform, secured via smart biometrics, real time ID verification, and the blockchain for irrefutability. Voatz enables citizens to vote in all kinds of elections or voting events via a smartphone. Past attempts at internet based voting have failed or not gone mainstream due to fundamental concerns around security,auditability, and voter anonymity. With Voatz, using biometrics for security and the Blockchain for irrefutability, it is able to tackle all challenges and significantly streamline the process of voting and identity verification.Voatz was a part of the Techstars Boston 2017 and Masschallenge Boston 2017 cohorts.The company was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 08, 2018 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eden Block](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eden-block) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Album VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/album) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BYU Cougar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cougar-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fifth Wall](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifth-wall-ventures-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Intuitive Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intuitive-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Overstock

VC Fund · Salt Lake City, United States

Overstock.com operates as an online retailer for brand names at clearance prices. Through its fan page, users can enjoy exclusive promotions, product deals, gift card giveaways, contests, and more. They can easily speak their mind by writing on the wall, uploading photos and videos, or by starting a discussion board.

5 contacts available at Overstock.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Popelka | Senior Vice President, Supplier, Customer and People Care | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-popelka |
| Carter Lee | Senior Vice President, Technology | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carter-lee |
| Jonathan Johnson | interim CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-e-johnson-iii |
| Lucia Macari | Senior Test Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucia-macari |
| Mitch Edwards | Senior Vice President, Global Operations and General Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitch-edwards-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Jonathan Johnson invest in?

Jonathan Johnson invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jonathan Johnson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jonathan Johnson closed in Feb 2023. Shizune tracks 11 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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