Kanyi Maqubela

Kanyi serves as Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. He focuses his investment and formation work in theme areas including frontier technology, digital health, e-commerce, financial technology, supply-chain/logistics. He currently serves a number of startups as a lead investor, including Adyton, Basis Theory, Faircraft, Cloudtrucks, Goldfinch, and Tala. He previously led or participated in the earliest stages of investments including Outschool, Just, Impossible Foods, Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST), Reddit (NYSE: RDDT), Mural, Hellosign (acquired by Dropbox), and Earnest (acquired by Navient). As an entrepreneur and operator, Kanyi is a co-founder at Heartbeat Health, the largest virtual heart health platform in the United States. He previously served as a Partner at Collaborative Fund. Early in his career before venture, Kanyi ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by NYSE: NRG for $120 million) and was an early employee at Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). Kanyi has also served as an Adjunct Professor 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.