Kanyi Maqubela

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Mr. Kanyi Maqubela serves as Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member & Board Observer at Heartbeat. He serves as a Board Member at Hopscotch. He serves as an Advisor at Screendoor. He served as a Board Member at Spruce. 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 a venture, he has led and participated in over 50 investments including Tala, Upstart ($UPST), Reddit, Just, Outschool, Mural, Goldfinch, Cloudtrucks, Hellosign (acq $DBX), Earnest (acq $NAVI) and more. As an entrepreneur and operator, He is a co-founder of 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, He ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG for $120 million) and was an early employee at Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). He 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.