Kindred Ventures IV

United States

Pre Seed

About Kindred Ventures IV

Kindred Ventures IV is the core early-stage vehicle in a $355M raise (paired with Kindred Selector II), backing pre-seed and seed companies in the firm's "age of intelligence" thesis. Founded by Steve Jang in 2014 and co-led with Kanyi Maqubela, Kindred runs a concentrated portfolio of ~25 companies per cycle across AI, energy, compute, biology, health and money. Track record includes early positions in Uber, Coinbase and Postmates.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StagePre Seed

Industry Focus

Ai Ml

Biotech

Deep Tech

Digital Health

Energy Tech

Fintech

Investor Signals Profile

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Sweet Spot

Visionary founders building frontier AI, climate, health, fintech solving hard problems

frontier AI

climate tech

health & wellness

fintech

decentralized systems

mobility & logistics

tools & infrastructure

generative video

voice AI

agentic commerce

Bullish Signals

$355M raise across two vehicles—largest yetblog

100+ portfolio companies, $200B+ aggregate market capwebsite

Portfolio exits: Uber IPO, Coinbase IPO, Meta acquisition (PlayAI)website

Recent wins: Corgi unicorn, Sandbar $23M Series A, Inversion $44M raisewebsite

Strong fintech play: Tala, Basis Theory, Corgi in emerging marketswebsite

Early-stage thesis + 25-company focus = high conviction modelblog

Voice AI, generative video, agentic commerce emerging betswebsite_2026

Recent voice AI bet: Kotoba (multilingual voice models)website_2026

Architect Labs custom chip co-design democratization betwebsite_2026

Contrarian Signals

Thesis breadth (8+ sectors) wide for concentrated fund modelblog

Two-person team managing 100+ portfolio = potential scaling riskblog

Climate + crypto + AI + health = thesis coherence questionwebsite

Founder Do's

Pitch intelligence extending beyond human capability

Build in biology, health, energy, money, climate or AI

Expect hands-on coaching, not passive cap-table presence

Be prepared to compete for ~25 slots per cycle

Show visionary + relentless execution combo

Consider voice AI, agents, agentic commerce angles

Explore generative video, multilingual voice, custom chip co-design

Founder Don'ts

Do not pitch simple task automation

Avoid passive, check-writing investor expectation

Don't ignore climate tech or consumer well-being angles

Key GPs & Partners

Steve Jang

Founder, Managing Partner

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Kanyi Maqubela

Managing Partner

builder-investorcoaching-stylehealthcare-focused

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$355M

Saves0

Website

Key People

Steve Jang, Kanyi Maqubela

Steve JangFounder, Managing Partner

Kanyi MaqubelaManaging Partner

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