Kanyi Maqubela
Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures
Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures
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Kanyi is a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in mission-driven technology companies at the earliest stages. He focuses his investment and formation work in theme areas including fintech, health and wellness, e-commerce, supply-chain, and climate tech. Over the last 10 years in venture, Kanyi has led and participated in over 50 investments including Cloudtrucks, Goldfinch, Tala, Upstart, Just, Outschool, Mural, Earnest, Kano (Stem Player), Hellosign and more.
He previously served as a Partner at Collaborative Fund, where he served on boards including Spruce, True Link, Camino Financial, Hopscotch, and Buffer. As an entrepreneur and operator, Kanyi is a co-founder at Heartbeat Health, and early in his career before venture ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG) and was an early employee at Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). Kanyi has also served as a Lecturer and Adjunct at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, a curriculum adapted from his time as a student at Stanford University, where he studied Philosophy. |