Kindred Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$2.0M Checks)
Kindred Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California investing in AI / ML, Deep Tech, SaaS. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.0M checks.
- Check size
- $500K–$2.0M
- Partners
- 6 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML, Deep Tech, SaaS, Other
- HQ
- San Francisco, California
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-12
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $2.0M
6 partners
Investment Thesis
Kindred is an early-stage firm that backs technical startups and recently led an AI chip design and verification seed round. The firm is a solid pre-seed fit for software that shortens chip verification cycles.
How Kindred Ventures invests
Kindred Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, Deep Tech, SaaS, Other.
Kindred Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$2.0M per investment.
Partners & Team
Kat Collins
Office Manager
Frances Choi
Operations Manager
Ali Youngblood
Community Manager
Natalie Arora
Director of Operations
Steve Jang
Managing Partner
Kanyi Maqubela
Managing Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Deep Tech, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Kat Collins, Office Manager.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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