Venture Capital

Kindred Ventures

Kindred Ventures is a San Francisco-based, earliest-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Steve Jang and led today as a partnership with Managing Partners Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela. The firm backs visionary and relentless founders building the future with technology and science, investing primarily at the pre-seed and seed stage and often partnering with entrepreneurs before a company is even formed. Kindred runs a deliberately concentrated, high-touch model of roughly 25 companies per fund, and has backed 100+ startups whose aggregate market capitalization now exceeds $200B. It invests across AI and new computing, crypto/web3, fintech, consumer, health and wellness, climate tech, mobility and logistics, and developer tools and infrastructure. With around $600M in assets under management, notable investments and exits include Uber, Coinbase, Poshmark, Reddit, Postmates, Blue Bottle Coffee, Perplexity, Tala, Magic Eden, dYdX, and PlayAI (acquired by Meta in 2025).

117 portfolio companies 117 publish APIs here 13 properties
Venture CapitalPre-SeedSeedArtificial IntelligenceCryptoFintechConsumerHealth and WellnessClimate TechDeveloper ToolsInfrastructureSan FranciscoNorth America
Portfolio Strength across 40 profiled portfolio companies on the network
6 top-rated API companies 1 exemplar · 5 strong
11 agent-ready companies 3 agent-native · 8 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 36.8
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 22.5

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Kindred Ventures has 117 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 40 (34%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 77 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are fal, Particle, Dedaluslabs, Perplexity, Pomo.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
fal3 published contracts68.6
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Particle2 published contracts62.2Dedaluslabs2 published contracts58.3Perplexity1 published contract57.0Pomo2 published contracts56.2Mem01 published contract55.3
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Quo1 published contract53.0Scorecard1 published contract53.0Basis Theory1 published contract51.9Parasail3 published contracts49.5Color Health2 published contracts49.0Uber6 published contracts49.0Parcha2 published contracts46.5Unlock-protocol1 published contract45.9Coinbase5 published contracts43.7Bitski2 published contracts42.2Kotoba5 published contracts41.8Morf1 API40.5
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
Rocksolid1 published contract37.6Syndica4 APIs36.4Harbor1 published contract35.5Stablesea1 published contract34.7Creatify1 published contract34.6Animoto1 API34.4Hourone2 published contracts34.1Mobilecoin1 API34.1Zora1 published contract31.4Braintrust1 published contract31.2Bloomcredit5 APIs30.6Northflank4 APIs30.0Kaaj1 API28.8Messari1 published contract28.1Postmates2 APIs26.2
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
Redplanetlabs1 API25.6Dripshop1 API24.1Mobillis1 API23.4Warblerlabs1 API22.9Hydrahost1 API18.3dYdX1 API16.0Aethero2 APIs14.4

Properties

Portfolio

Where the firm publishes its investments

Portfolio
Portfolio
 Portfolio
Portfolio
 InvestmentThesis
InvestmentThesis

Team

Partners and investing staff

Team
Team
 Team
Team

Content

Blog, podcast, newsletter, and research

Blog
Blog
 News
News

Firm

The firm itself

Website
Website
 Jobs
Jobs
 Crunchbase
Crunchbase
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter
 Contact
Contact

Cohort brief

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The 102 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Kindred Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
102
of 117 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
21.5
-1.4 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
10.8
-1.2 vs catalog 12
Spread
1.6–68.6
median 14.4 · σ 16.6
How the 102 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 4Developing 13Thin 15Emerging 37Minimal 32
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 27.8 26.4 +1.4 102
Discoverability 57.3 58.2 -0.9 102
Developer Ergonomics 21.9 23.1 -1.2 102
Contract Quality 16 17.6 -1.6 102
Contract Governance 4.2 6.3 -2.1 102
Operational Transparency 10 13.6 -3.6 102

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 19% 15% +4
MCP server (first-party) 19% 12% +7
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 3% 11% -8
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 11% 13% -2

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 fal 68.6
  2. 2 Particle 62.2
  3. 3 Perplexity 57
  4. 4 Pomo 56.2
  5. 5 Mem0 55.4
  6. 6 Scorecard 53
  7. 7 Dedalus Labs 52.6
  8. 8 Quo 52.5
  9. 9 Basis Theory 51.9
  10. 10 Parasail 49.5
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Perplexity 60.4
  2. 2 fal 50.6
  3. 3 Scorecard 48.7
  4. 4 Creatify 47.1
  5. 5 Messari 42.7
  6. 6 Color 41.5
  7. 7 Dedalus Labs 40.7
  8. 8 Pomo 39.3
  9. 9 Mem0 34.5
  10. 10 Bitski 33.3
This roster declares 117 members; 107 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 102 carry a score (95%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 94 of 102 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 3 October 2026, across 28834 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kindred-ventures
name: Kindred Ventures
description: >-
  Kindred Ventures is a San Francisco-based, earliest-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 by
  Steve Jang and led today as a partnership with Managing Partners Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela. The
  firm backs visionary and relentless founders building the future with technology and science,
  investing primarily at the pre-seed and seed stage and often partnering with entrepreneurs before a
  company is even formed. Kindred runs a deliberately concentrated, high-touch model of roughly 25
  companies per fund, and has backed 100+ startups whose aggregate market capitalization now exceeds
  $200B. It invests across AI and new computing, crypto/web3, fintech, consumer, health and wellness,
  climate tech, mobility and logistics, and developer tools and infrastructure. With around $600M in
  assets under management, notable investments and exits include Uber, Coinbase, Poshmark, Reddit,
  Postmates, Blue Bottle Coffee, Perplexity, Tala, Magic Eden, dYdX, and PlayAI (acquired by Meta in
  2025).
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  confidence: low
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  pricing: unknown
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modified: '2026-07-17'
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  - Fintech
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  - Climate Tech
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - San Francisco
  - North America
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  - Venture Capital
  - Pre-Seed
  - Seed
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  - Crypto
  - Fintech
  - Consumer
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  - Climate Tech
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - San Francisco
  - North America
apis: []
common:
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  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://kindredventures.com/portfolio/
  - type: Portfolio
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  - type: Team
    url: https://kindredventures.com/about/
  - type: Team
    url: team/kindred-ventures-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
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  - type: Blog
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  - type: News
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  - type: Jobs
    url: https://kindredventures.getro.com/jobs
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kindred-ventures-2
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kindredventures/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/kindredventures
  - type: Contact
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  - type: Features
    data:
      - "Stage: Earliest-stage (primarily pre-seed and seed)"
      - "Model: Concentrated, high-touch portfolio of ~25 companies per fund"
      - "Sectors: AI, crypto/web3, fintech, consumer, health & wellness, climate tech, mobility & logistics, tools & infrastructure"
      - "Geography: San Francisco / United States, global"
      - "AUM: ~$600M (self-reported)"
      - "Portfolio: 100+ companies, $200B+ aggregate market cap"
      - "Founded: 2014"
      - "HQ: San Francisco, California, USA"
    sources:
      - https://kindredventures.com/
      - https://kindredventures.com/about/
      - https://www.vcsheet.com/fund/kindred-ventures
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Kindred Ventures
    url: https://kindredventures.com/

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