Kindred News

TechCrunch: Last week, we talked with Kindred Ventures, a small, nine-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that, despite investing in a lot of nascent startups — more than 100 to date — takes a generalist approach, investing in AI, climate tech, consumer internet companies, crypto deals, fintech startups, health startups, mobility startups and the outfits developing tools and infrastructure.

Global Village Space: In recent years, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic in the tech industry. As AI continues to advance, it raises questions about the future of startups and whether we will see more or fewer companies emerge. To explore this topic, we spoke with Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, the managing directors of Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture firm that invests in a wide range of startups, including those focused on AI and other frontier technologies.

Forbes: Jang started Kindred Ventures in 2014 as an angel investor and joined forces with Kanyi Maqubela to make it a full venture capital firm in 2018.

His $550 million-in-assets firm focuses on seed investments and has backed companies including Coinbase, Postmates, Tala, Tonal and Uber, and incubated three startups.

Forbes: After the 2008 financial crisis, the VC community began turning to fellow founders and friends, Steve Jang remembers. Garrett Camp, who Janç showed around San Francisco, helped advise in starting Uber. Jang met then-Airbnb engineer Brian Armstrong on a plane, then cut him c check when he left to launch Coinbase. For Jang's Kindred Ventures, both are portfolio highlights - "We want every company to feel like a moonshot."

CNBC: Steve Jang, Kindred Ventures, joins ‘Closing Bell’ to discuss Uber stock rising on higher-than-expected revenue growth.