# Steve Jang

> Steve Jang is a seed investor at Bitski (San Francisco) backing Software and Internet. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bitski](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitski)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevejang1
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/stevejang
- Website: http://kindredventures.com

Steve Jang is a seed investor at Bitski in San Francisco focused on Software and Internet. Steve Jang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kindred Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 34% |
| Internet | 6 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 17% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 11% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 9% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 54% |
| Series A | 4 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |
| Series E | 1 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 60% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kotoba Technologies | Kotoba Technologies develops and supports technology tailored to business fields and applications. It supports the implementation of language models into corporate applications by communicating closely with companies in Japanese to accurately understand the needs and actual situation of each company, and then provide optimal technical support.++ | $10M | Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Architect | Architect provide frontier AI lab for chip design. | $24M | Seed | Jun 18, 2026 |  |
| Hydra Host | Hydra Host is a tool that provides cross-cloud capabilities to deploy and host apps across public cloud and private cloud providers. In addition to cross-cloud capabilities, Hydra offers high-level advisory, as well as expert implementation work with bespoke service engagements catered to client priorities. Whether security, resilience, orscale-focused. | $100M | Series A | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| Fearn | Fearn is an AI-native patent drafting platform that lets inventors and companies prepare patent applications in minutes instead of 50+ hours, with flat-rate pricing and no third‑party AI models. | $5.5M | Seed | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| District | District is a commerce platform where anyone can create and grow their own brand. District allows anyone to develop personalized retail experiences, such as live selling and auctions, marketplaces, and paid communities, without the need for coding or engineering. | $14.7M | Seed | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Parasail | Parasail is an AI deployment networking company that provides AI products to builders and innovators for secure compute. | $32M | Series A | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Pomo | Pomo (pomohq) is a small, AI‑powered marketing‑tech startup that builds a unified platform of AI agents to plan, create, and optimize cross‑channel marketing campaigns for growth‑focused brands. It aims to replace fragmented tools and manual workflows with an integrated system that scales marketing operations and insights in one stack. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Dedalus Labs | Dedalus Labs is building the MCP gateway for the next generation of AI applications by unifying the fragmented AI agents ecosystem with a single drop-in API endpoint. We host and manage your MCP servers, allowing users to go from idea to production in a single click. Users can pick any model from any vendor, mix-and-match whatever tools they wantfrom our MCP marketplace, and ship within minutes. YC S25. | $11M | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| Engine Labs | Backengine creates, test and instantly deploy backend APIs powered by language models without any code or infrastructure. | $5.7M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Scorecard | Scorecard provides a platform for evaluating and monitoring AI systems. The company offers tools to test prompts, track AI performance, and manage metrics for different models. Its platform allows teams to conduct structured tests, observe real-time interactions, and convert observed failures into reusable test cases. Scorecard also providesdashboards and visualizations to help analyze performance trends and identify areas for improvement. Teams can compare different models and prompts without coding, enabling iterative testing and informed decision-making. The platform supports ongoing assessment to maintain consistent AI behavior and performance over time. | $3.8M | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kindred Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kindred-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Karman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karman-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Saga Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saga-ventures-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-twenty-minute-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1confirmation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1confirmation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Bitski

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Bitski is a developer-focused platform that simplifies the creation, sale, and purchase of NFTs for creators, brands, and platforms. By connecting communities through ownable digital content, Bitski aims to make blockchain technology accessible to mainstream brands and celebrities.

5 contacts available at Bitski.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Donnie Dinch | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donnie-dinch |
| Julian Tescher | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julian-tescher |
| Julian Tescher | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julian-tescher-27f5 |
| Patrick Tescher | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-tescher |
| Steve Jang | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-jang |

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## FAQ

### What does Steve Jang invest in?

Steve Jang invests primarily in Software, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 35 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 Steve Jang last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Steve Jang closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 35 investments 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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