Kanyi serves as a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. He focuses his investment and formation work in theme areas including digital health and wellness, e-commerce, financial technology, supply-chain, and climate tech. Over the last 10 years in venture, he has led and participated in over 50 investments including Tala, Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST), Reddit, Just, Outschool, Mural, Goldfinch, Cloudtrucks, Hellosign (acq $DBX), Earnest (acq NASDAQ: NAVI) and more.

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, where he focused on seed stage investments. Early in his career before venture, Kanyi ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acq NYSE: NRG for $120 million) 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.

Kanyi lives in San Francisco with his family, and serves on the Board of Directors of the UCSF Foundation Investment Company.