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 18 publish APIs here 13 properties
Venture CapitalPre-SeedSeedArtificial IntelligenceCryptoFintechConsumerHealth & WellnessClimate TechDeveloper ToolsInfrastructureSan FranciscoNorth America

Kindred Ventures has 117 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 18 (15%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are fal, Bloomcredit, Magic Eden, Uber, Coinbase.

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
fal 9 APIs 70.8
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Bloomcredit 1 API 59.5 Magic Eden 7 APIs 57.3 Uber 7 APIs 57.0 Coinbase 8 APIs 55.5 Particle 1 API 51.3 Zora 4 APIs 46.4
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Harbor 1 API 44.1 Basis Theory 8 APIs 38.6 Braintrust 1 API 37.3 Creatify 10 APIs 37.2 Fountain 9 APIs 36.0 Messari 1 API 35.9 Northflank 1 API 35.4 Mem0 1 API 35.3
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Postmates 2 APIs 26.3 dYdX 1 API 19.5
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Color Health 5 APIs 11.0

Rest of Portfolio

99 further portfolio companies that don’t yet have a provider page on the network.

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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).
image: https://kindredventures.com/favicon.ico
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Pre-Seed
  - Seed
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Crypto
  - Fintech
  - Consumer
  - Health & Wellness
  - Climate Tech
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - San Francisco
  - North America
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://kindredventures.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://kindredventures.com/portfolio/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/kindred-ventures-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://kindredventures.com/about/
  - type: Team
    url: team/kindred-ventures-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://kindredventures.com/about/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://medium.com/kindred-ventures
  - type: News
    url: https://kindredventures.com/news/
  - 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
    url: https://us9.list-manage.com/contact-form?u=7227162fe9bfefa2742c6799b&form_id=a8d44b00a40ea7ca5da044a44649466e
  - 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/