Jason Kwon - CSO @ OpenAI - Crunchbase Person Profile

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Overview

Number of Portfolio Companies

CB Rank (Investor)

Primary Job Title CSO
Primary Organization
OpenAI

Location San Francisco, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

Investor Type
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Jason Kwon is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the CSO of OpenAI. Jason previously worked at ZeroDown as a GC and CSO.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments

has made

investments. Their latest investment was

Seed Round - Worktrace AI

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Worktrace AI	—	Seed Round - Worktrace AI	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Klarity	—	Series A - Klarity	obfuscated obfuscation

Partner Investments

Number of Partner Investments

Announced Date	Organization Name	Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Valthos	OpenAI	—	Seed Round - Valthos	obfuscated obfuscation

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs

Number of Past Jobs

is the

CSO

at

. Additionally,

has had

past jobs including

GC+CSO

at

.

OpenAI CSOJul 2023

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
ZeroDown	GC+CSO	Sep 2019	Mar 2021
Y Combinator	General Counsel, YC Continuity	Mar 2016	Sep 2019

Related Hubs

Hub Name	CB Rank (Hub)
Meta Alumni Founded Companies	25,825
K2 Global Portfolio Companies	89,816
US companies that went public in the last year	30,768
San Francisco Bay Area Investors with Funds Raised in 2021	52,107
NVIDIA Portfolio Companies	29,380
United States Investors with Funds Raised in 2024	35,853
World AI Late Stage	25,246
San Francisco Bay Area Machine Learning Female Founded Companies	55,144
San Francisco Bay Area Companies With More Than 500 Employees	10,760
Western US Companies With More Than $1M in Revenue (Top 10K)	526

Recent News and Activity

Funding Round•

Dec 11, 2025

Worktrace AI raised

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from 8VC and 9 other investors

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Funding Round•

Jan 24, 2022

Klarity raised

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from Brad Lightcap and 19 other investors

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