Kanyi Maqubela

Kanyi is a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, where he’s focused on investments in fintech, health and wellness, e-commerce, supply-chain, and climate tech since joining the firm in 2018. He and firm founder Steve Jang have focused Kindred on both forming and investing in new startups, and have worked with companies such as Cloudtrucks, Hellosign, Just, Outschool, and Upstart. He gained investment experience at Collaborative Fund, where he served as a Partner and worked with companies including Buffer, Hopscotch, Spruce, and True Link. As an entrepreneur and operator, he ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG) and was an early employee at Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). He also co-founded and serves on the board of directors of Heartbeat Health, a leading end-to-end virtual care platform tailored to cardiology patients.