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Kindred Ventures

Founders Steve Jang

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Total investments 106
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$86M
Portfolio companies 74
Rounds per year 10.60
Lead investments 22
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 4
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
Summary

Kindred Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Kindred Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, True Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Slow Ventures, Village Global, Union Square Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polychain, Tusk Ventures, SV Angel.

This organization was formed by Steve Jang. The overall number of key employees were 2.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 3 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Ethereum, Blockchain. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Coinbase, Atrium LTS, Blue Bottle Coffee Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. When the investment is from Kindred Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. This Kindred Ventures works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Particle.News

$4M01 Mar 2024 San Rafael, California, United States

Perplexity AI

Artificial Intelligence
Search Engine
Software
$73M04 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Extropic AI

$14M04 Dec 2023 -

Canopy

Enterprise Software
Internet
Software Engineering
$4M15 Nov 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Morf Health

Apps
Developer APIs
Health Care
Internet
Software
$3M14 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Opal

$17M25 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Parcha AI

Artificial Intelligence
Compliance
Enterprise Software
SaaS
$1M07 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Utopia Labs

$23M01 Jun 2023 -

Whisper Aero

Aerospace
Air Transportation
GreenTech
$33M18 Apr 2023 -
News
Humane Raises $100M in Series B Funding

– Humane, Inc. from San Francisco develops personal technology for the intelligence age.
– Company raised $100m in Series B funding round.
– The round was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from SoftBank Group, BOND, Forerunner Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, Kindred Ventures, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, Valia Ventures, NEXT VENTŪRES, Plexo Capital and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
– The new investment will be aimed at scaling operations.

Catch takes hold of $12M to provide benefits that aren’t tied to employers

– Catch, a health insurance and retirement savings company, raised $12m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Crosslink and joined by earlier investors Khosla Ventures, NYCA Partners, Kindred Ventures and Urban Innovation Fund.
– The company plans to use the funding to increase its headcount to service those partnerships and go after more.

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Total investments 106
Average round size 86M
Rounds per year 10.60
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Particle.News

$4M01 Mar 2024 San Rafael, California, United States

Perplexity AI

Artificial Intelligence
Search Engine
Software
$73M04 Jan 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Extropic AI

$14M04 Dec 2023 -

Canopy

Enterprise Software
Internet
Software Engineering
$4M15 Nov 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Morf Health

Apps
Developer APIs
Health Care
Internet
Software
$3M14 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Opal

$17M25 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Parcha AI

Artificial Intelligence
Compliance
Enterprise Software
SaaS
$1M07 Aug 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Utopia Labs

$23M01 Jun 2023 -

Whisper Aero

Aerospace
Air Transportation
GreenTech
$33M18 Apr 2023 -
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