Published in kindred ventures·Mar 7Welcoming Natalie AroraWe are so pleased to introduce our Head of Operations, Natalie Arora. She has over 10 years operating experience across startups and venture capital, having started her career in sales and partnerships in foodtech startup, and most recently leading operations at Susa Ventures. During her five years at Susa, she…2 min read2 min read
Published in kindred ventures·Oct 19, 2022New Team MembersWe are delighted to announce that our team has grown! Please meet our Director of Finance, Tsolmon (TJ) Jargalsaikhan. He has over 10 years of experience working in venture capital, private equity and private credit funds. At Kindred, TJ focuses on finance, investment operations, compliance and digital asset management. …Hiring2 min readHiring2 min read
Published in kindred ventures·Oct 11, 2022Our Investment in AdytonFor a $757 billion annual budget¹, I was surprised how many systems in the Department of Defense run on pen, paper, and manual desktop entry: vehicle check-ins in the field, daily musters during a mission at sea, private/seaman/airman training, equipment monitoring, and beyond. Work has moved to the cloud, and…Enterprise Technology4 min readEnterprise Technology4 min read
Published in kindred ventures·Jun 29, 2022Our Investment in Zing DataMost workstreams in the enterprise used to be single-player mode: building models in a spreadsheet, designing presentations, mocking up websites, supply chain management. For the first 25 years of business software, this paradigm was the norm, and the only collaborative experience, at scale, was transmitting and storing static files. This…Mobile3 min readMobile3 min read
Published in kindred ventures·Apr 18, 2022Our Investment in EllisImmigrants are entrepreneurs. They leave the comfort of their home contexts, take personal risk to seek a better future, in pursuit of an ideal. This risk often means learning a new language, navigating streets and cultures foreign to them, learning a context while trying to compete and live in it…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Published in kindred ventures·Apr 7, 2022Our Investment in ConceiveSome problems are hidden in plain sight — invisible to the casual observer, but glaring to the discerning eye. Conception is one of these. 1 in 6 couples struggles to reproduce around the world. Miscarriage, infertility, and other conception challenges turn up everywhere you look. And yet, they are hidden…Startups3 min readStartups3 min read
Published in kindred ventures·Feb 7, 2022Our Investment in Dawn HealthWe spend a third of our lives sleeping (or attempting to do so!): it is our most common activity. And 20% of us — 70 million Americans — struggling with it. This is an incredible combination of statistics. You know when you haven’t been sleeping well for a while, and…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Published in kindred ventures·Dec 16, 2021Our Investment In SpertaAs the saying goes, “Where there’s money, there’s fraud.” And as I have come to realize, Solving financial fraud across all enterprise software is, clearly, a big hairy deal. It’s tricky, though. KYC (know-your-customer), an identity verification mechanism, is required by law for every financial institution. Application fraud protection…2 min read2 min read
Published in kindred ventures·Oct 21, 2021Our Investment in Basis TheoryIf you are reading this right now, you have seen “HTTPS” show up on many websites. In fact, you may even notice that sometimes it says HTTP, and other times it says HTTPS. You know a website is more secure if it is HTTPS, but perhaps couldn’t explain why. The…3 min read3 min read
Published in kindred ventures·Sep 28, 2021Our Investment in CarrotI always like to say that technology is not software, or hardware, but systems and tools that are used to solve problems uniquely well. In that way, not only was the computer an invention of technology, but so was the printing press, writing itself, and the wheel. The history of…3 min read3 min read
