Jungwon Byun is an AI research-tool executive who co-founded Elicit, a public benefit corporation building an AI research assistant. Jungwon's Twitter Score is 16 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #61,321 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Jungwon also co-founded Ought, the nonprofit research lab that incubated Elicit, and later joined the Elicit team as a former Ought employee. Elicit raised a $22M Series A at a $100M valuation in February 2025, a round led by Spark Capital and Footwork, with Fifty Years, Basis Set, and Mythos also participating. Earlier, Ought had received $3.8M in donations, with backing from Open Philanthropy, Paul Christiano, Jaan Tallinn, and the Survival and Flourishing Fund.
Jungwon has accumulated 4,531 followers as of September 2026 across 2,196 posts. Jungwon has been mentioned by 5 accounts a total of 5 times.
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The accounts that follow Jungwon include 72 founders, 14 angel investors, 7 influencers and 2 VCs, among them Jihoz.ron, Erik Torenberg, Kevin Rose, Lulu Cheng Meservey, Robert Scoble and Mark Beylin.