Kanyi Maqubela
Founder of Heartbeat Health
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2018 - Current
www.kindredventures.com
Kindred Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund that supports startup companies.
Board Member
2023
UCSF Foundation Investment Company is a financial services company
Co-Founder, Board Observer
2024
Co-Founder, Board Member
2017 - 2024
http://heartbeathealth.com Heartbeat Health is the leading end-to-end virtual care platform designed specifically for cardiology.
Board Member
2024
Investor, Advisor
2013 - 2024
Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets.
Raised $372,000,000.00 from Victory Park Capital.
Board Observer
2020
Build the payments stack fit for your business
Raised $17,000,000.00 from Xffirmers, Bessemer Venture Partners, Conversion Capital, BoxGroup, Ludlow Ventures, Good Friends, Offline Ventures and Kindred Ventures.
Board Observer
2024
Inversion builds space capsules to return cargo back to Earth for the commercial, civil, and defense industries.
Raised $54,125,000.00 from Adjacent, Spark Capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Kindred Capital and Y Combinator.
Board Member
2024
Adjunct Professor
2016 - 2018
Partner
2011 - 2017
Led/supported over 40 investments, including Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST), Tala, Walker & Co (acquired $PG), HelloFax (acquired $DBX), Buffer, reddit (NYSE: RDDT), TrueLink, and others.
Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption.
Field Director of One Block Off the Grid
2009 - 2010
One Block Off the Grid. Merged with Pure Energies Group, acquired by NRG Energy (NYSE: $NRG) for $120MM
Virgance is a Web 2.0 company building web apps on top of a platform that auto-deploys apps to open social platforms.
Raised $750,000.00 from Quest Venture Partners.