Kindred Ventures IV

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

Frontier intelligence founders extending AI beyond human capability — biology, health, energy, money

age of intelligence

frontier AI

energy

compute

biology

health

money

physical AI

Bullish Signals

$355M across two vehicles — largest raise yetblog

Selector II solves seed fund ownership-erosion problemblog

Track record: Uber, Coinbase, Postmates — category-defining early betsblog

Concentrated ~25 companies per cycle = high convictionblog

Contrarian Signals

Thesis breadth (biology + energy + money + AI) is wide for concentrated fundblog

Two-person managing partner structure = bandwidth risk across diverse thesisblog

No Fund IV portfolio disclosed yetblog

Founder Do's

Pitch intelligence that extends beyond human capability

Build in biology, health, energy, money or harder edges of AI

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

Be prepared to compete for one of ~25 slots

Founder Don'ts

Do not pitch simple automation of existing tasks

Do not expect high-volume spray-and-pray capital

Avoid if you need a passive, check-writing investor

Key GPs & Partners

Steve Jang

Founder, Managing Partner

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Kanyi Maqubela

Managing Partner

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$355M

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Key People

Steve Jang, Kanyi Maqubela

Steve JangFounder, Managing Partner

Kanyi MaqubelaManaging Partner