# Kanyi Maqubela

> Kanyi Maqubela is a seed investor at Kindred Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kindred Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kindred-ventures-2)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 61%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kanyi
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/km
- Website: http://blog.kanyi.me/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kanyi

Kanyi Maqubela is a seed investor at Kindred Ventures in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. Kanyi is a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in mission-driven technology companies at the earliest stages. Previously, he served as a Partner at Collaborative Fund. Kanyi is a co-founder at Heartbeat Health, and previously ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG) and was an early employeeat Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). Kanyi has also served as a Lecturer and Adjunct at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, a curriculum adapted from his time in undergrad at Stanford University, where he studied Philosophy.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$5.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.8M–$3.5M |
| Series A | $10M–$108M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 25% |
| FinTech | 5 | 18% |
| Software | 5 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 18% |
| Apps | 4 | 14% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 64% |
| Series A | 4 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 11% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 57% |
| Brazil | 2 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| South Africa | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Corgi Insurance | Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. ("Corgi") is an American technology company that operates an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered insurance carrier based in San Francisco, California. Corgi Insurance develops and operates a fully integrated insurance stack using AI agents to automate traditional carrier operations, becoming the world’sfirst “AI insurance company.” The company owns multiple subsidiaries operating under a dog-themed naming convention. | $106M | Series B | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Insight Health | Insight Health provides an AI-driven platform for healthcare that automates common clinical tasks using various specialized AI agents. The platform features AI agents for patient pre-visit intake and follow-ups, AI-based referral processing, phone triage, appointment scheduling, chart preparation, and clinical documentation capture. This enableshealthcare providers to reduce their administrative workload and focus more on direct patient care. | $11M | Series A | Apr 03, 2026 |  |
| Sandbar | Sandbar provides an interface platform that enables users to extend their cognitive and creative workflows by integrating voice, gesture, and haptic interactions. The company develops the core product Stream, which functions as a conversational extension of thought, capturing ideas, organizing notes, and facilitating hands-free music controlthrough gestures. In addition, it offers the Stream Ring, a wearable device that pairs with Stream to enable voice-activated control, capturing and organizing information in real time. The technology bridges the gap between internal thinking and external action, aiming to make idea generation and expression more fluid. Its services include product design, software integration, and support for gesture- and voice-based interfaces tailored to individual workflows. | $23M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Corgi Insurance | Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. ("Corgi") is an American technology company that operates an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered insurance carrier based in San Francisco, California. Corgi Insurance develops and operates a fully integrated insurance stack using AI agents to automate traditional carrier operations, becoming the world’sfirst “AI insurance company.” The company owns multiple subsidiaries operating under a dog-themed naming convention. | $108M | Series A | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| Kaaj AI | Kaaj is an agentic AI credit intelligence platform that automates small business loan underwriting from application to decision-ready analysis. The San Francisco-based company integrates seamlessly with existing loan origination systems, enabling lenders and brokers to scale efficiently while maintaining consistency and transparency. Kaaj'smission is to expand access to affordable capital for all small businesses by empowering lenders with category-leading technology. | $3.8M | Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Brale | Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi. | $30M | Seed | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Insight Health | Insight Health provides an AI-driven platform for healthcare that automates common clinical tasks using various specialized AI agents. The platform features AI agents for patient pre-visit intake and follow-ups, AI-based referral processing, phone triage, appointment scheduling, chart preparation, and clinical documentation capture. This enableshealthcare providers to reduce their administrative workload and focus more on direct patient care. | $4.6M | Seed | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| Stable Sea | Stable Sea provides seamless, compliant, cost-effective stablecoin offramping solutions, enabling businesses to bridge the gap between digital and traditional finance and unlock new opportunities. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Morf Health | Morf Health is making it 10x faster for healthcare providers to setup and maintain integrations across their tech stack, e.g. easily structure data from patient intake and send to an EHR. We pull data out of the tools they use to deliver care and run the business, unify and normalize the data, and then send it to the tools that need it. | $3M | Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Parcha AI | Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Aug 08, 2023 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-twenty-minute-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lowercase Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercase-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Propel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/propel-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [43](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/43) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Kindred Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Kindred Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund that supports startup companies. The company prefers to invest in the software, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, climate technology, and consumer industries. It is based in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2014 by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela.

2 contacts available at Kindred Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kanyi Maqubela | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kanyi-maqubela |
| Steve Jang | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-jang |

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## FAQ

### What does Kanyi Maqubela invest in?

Kanyi Maqubela invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kanyi Maqubela's check size?

Kanyi Maqubela typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5.6M at Seed, $1.8M–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$108M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kanyi Maqubela participates in.

### When did Kanyi Maqubela last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kanyi Maqubela closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 28 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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