Kindred Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund company in the United States

Kindred Ventures Founded in 2014, LLC is a seed stage venture capital fund led by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, headquartered in San Francisco, California. As a team, they have invested in more than 100 companies in their career and served as founders, early employees and consultants in several pioneering technology start-ups.

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Kindred Ventures

The mission of Kindred Ventures is to support visionary and dedicated founders who want to solve the most important problems and greatly improve the lives of people around the world. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/kindred.html

Kindred Ventures' approach is twofold: the company invests in technology start-ups in the first round of financing, and convenes talented founders to form start-ups and develop products that Kindred Ventures believes should exist. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/kindred.html

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Issue Date	Fund name	Fund raising amount
2021.2.21	Kindred Ventures II	$100M
2019.1.24	Kindred Ventures I	$56M

Founder of Kindred Ventures

1、Steve Jang The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/kindred.html

Steve is the founder and managing partner of Kindred Ventures. As early as 2009, Steve started angel investment in start-ups, and also created his own products in the consumer social field - the first company was Uber He is a founding consultant and early investor of Uber. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/kindred.html

Fast forward to 2014, Steve founded Kindred Ventures, initially as a separate angel fund. There were more than a dozen angel investments before, and he was keen to help other founders. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/kindred.html

Since then, Steve and Kanyi have cooperated to design and establish a new seed venture investment platform, which is both an investment platform and a start-up company. Steve has focused his investment and establishment work on encryption/web3, market, networking hardware/ Software , developer tools and sustainability/climate technology, and support more than 11 unicorn Companies and projects with a total market capitalization of more than $150B, including Coinbase 、 Uber 、DYDX Protocol、 Mobilecoin 、 Mina Protocol、Braintrust、Nervos Network、 Postmates 、 Poshmark 、Color Health、 Zymergen and Tonal 。 The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/kindred.html

Recently, as an entrepreneur, Steve is the co-founder of NFT wallet and store platform Bitski. Previously, he was the founder of SoundTracking (acquired by Rhapsody) and the co-founder of imeem (acquired by MySpace). Steve also served as a speaker at the venture capital seminar of his alma mater, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/kindred.html

2、Kanyi Maqubela The article originates from the home of American stocks | encyclopedia of American stocks | account opening and investment of American and Hong Kong stocks- https://www.mg21.com/kindred.html

Kanyi is the managing partner of Kindred Ventures. He was a partner of the Collaborative Fund, where he was Tala And Walker&Co., as well as the board members of Buffer, Camino Financial, Spruce and True Link.

Since then, Kanyi and Steve have worked together to design and establish a new seed venture investment platform in Kindred, which is both an investment platform and a start-up company. Kanyi focuses on financial technology , health/wellness Electronic Commerce , b2b/supply chain and sustainable development/climate technology.

As an entrepreneur and operator, Kanyi was a co-founder of Heartbeat Health and an early employee of Doostang (acquired by Universum Global) at the early stage of his career before One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG) made venture investment.

Kanyi also served as a lecturer and part-time lecturer in New York University Tisch School of the Arts, which was adapted from the course he studied at Stanford University.

Kindred Ventures Portfolio

• Adyton
• Alliance DAO
• Ando (acquired by $ UBER )
• Animoto
• Anjuna
• Atrium
• Basis Theory
• Bitski
• Blue Bottle Coffee (acquired by Nestlé)
• BloomCredit
• Braintrust ($BTRST)
• Bravado
• Breathometer
• Carrot
• Catch Benefits
• CloudTrucks
• Clubhouse
• Coinbase (Direct Listing: $COIN)
• CoinTracker
• Color Health
• Connora Systems (acquired by Aditya Birla Group)
• Dawn Health
• dYdX Protocol ($DYDX)
• Enso Relief (acquired by Hinge Health)
• Expa
• Flexclub
• Forward Health
• Fountain
• Friends With Benefits (FWB DAO)
• Goldfinch ($GFI)
• Grid
• Harbor (acquired by BitGo )
• Heartbeat Health
• HelloTech
• Helm
• Housable
• Humane
• Iso Technologies
• Italic
• Kinema
• Linear Labs
• Luxe (acquired by Volvo)
• Magic Eden
• Messari
• Mina Protocol ($MINA)
• Mobilecoin ($MOB)
• Mootral
• Namebase
• Nervos Network ($CKB)
• Northflank
• Opal Camera
• OpenPhone
• Optic
• Otis
• Picks and Shovels Kraken Acquisition)
• Point
• Poshmark ($POSH)
• Postmates (acquired by $UBER)
• Radar
• RangeMe (acquired by ECRM)
• Red Planet Labs
• Replenysh
• Reserve American Express Acquisition)
• Seashell
• Seasons
• Seed Club
• Set Protocol
• ShelfLife
• Snack
• Sperta
• StyleSeat
• Syndica
• Taika
• Tala
• TenLittle
• Tonal
• Torch
• Uber ( IPO : $UBER)
• Unlock Protocol
• Utopia Labs
• Whisper Aero
• Wildfire (acquired by OpenDoor)
• Virgin Hyperloop One
• Visor
• Yours
• Zing Data
• Zora Protocol
• Zymergen (IPO: $ZY)

Kindred Ventures US equity investment

Unlisted company 。