Steve Jang
Founder and Managing Partner @ Kindred Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Steve Jang is a seed investor at Kindred Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Internet. Steve Jang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kindred Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 36
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
Last updated:
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Industries Steve Jang invests in
Stages Steve Jang invests in
Countries Steve Jang invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (33%)
- Internet 6 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (17%)
- Blockchain 4 (11%)
- Cryptocurrency 3 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 19 (53%)
- Series A 4 (11%)
- Series C 1 (3%)
- Series E 1 (3%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 21 (58%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Kotoba Technologies develops and supports technology tailored to business fields and applications. It supports the implementation of language models into corporate applications by communicating closely with companies in Japanese to accurately understand the needs and actual situation of each company, and then provide optimal technical support.++ | $10M / Seed / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| Architect provide frontier AI lab for chip design. | $24M / Seed / Jun 18, 2026 | ||
| Hydra Host is a tool that provides cross-cloud capabilities to deploy and host apps across public cloud and private cloud providers. In addition to cross-cloud capabilities, Hydra offers high-level advisory, as well as expert implementation work with bespoke service engagements catered to client priorities. Whether security, resilience, orscale-focused. | $100M / Series A / Jun 15, 2026 | ||
| Fearn is an AI-native patent drafting platform that lets inventors and companies prepare patent applications in minutes instead of 50+ hours, with flat-rate pricing and no third‑party AI models. | $5.5M / Seed / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| District is a commerce platform where anyone can create and grow their own brand. District allows anyone to develop personalized retail experiences, such as live selling and auctions, marketplaces, and paid communities, without the need for coding or engineering. | $14.7M / Seed / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Parasail is an AI deployment networking company that provides AI products to builders and innovators for secure compute. | $32M / Series A / Apr 15, 2026 | ||
| Pomo (pomohq) is a small, AI‑powered marketing‑tech startup that builds a unified platform of AI agents to plan, create, and optimize cross‑channel marketing campaigns for growth‑focused brands. It aims to replace fragmented tools and manual workflows with an integrated system that scales marketing operations and insights in one stack. | $4.5M / Seed / Apr 08, 2026 | ||
| Dedalus Labs is building the MCP gateway for the next generation of AI applications by unifying the fragmented AI agents ecosystem with a single drop-in API endpoint. We host and manage your MCP servers, allowing users to go from idea to production in a single click. Users can pick any model from any vendor, mix-and-match whatever tools they wantfrom our MCP marketplace, and ship within minutes. YC S25. | $11M / Seed / Oct 15, 2025 | ||
| Backengine creates, test and instantly deploy backend APIs powered by language models without any code or infrastructure. | $5.7M / Seed / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Scorecard provides a platform for evaluating and monitoring AI systems. The company offers tools to test prompts, track AI performance, and manage metrics for different models. Its platform allows teams to conduct structured tests, observe real-time interactions, and convert observed failures into reusable test cases. Scorecard also providesdashboards and visualizations to help analyze performance trends and identify areas for improvement. Teams can compare different models and prompts without coding, enabling iterative testing and informed decision-making. The platform supports ongoing assessment to maintain consistent AI behavior and performance over time. | $3.8M / Seed / Sep 25, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Kindred Ventures
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.
Kindred Ventures Contacts
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Kanyi Maqubela
Managing Partner
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What does Steve Jang invest in?
Steve Jang invests primarily in Software, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Steve Jang closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 36 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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