Steve Jang
About Steve Jang
Steve Jang is a venture capital investor and technology entrepreneur. Based in San Francisco, Steve serves as founder and a managing partner of Kindred Ventures. In 2023, Forbes’ Midas List named Steve as #45 in the world’s 100 top venture capital investors. As a generalist early stage venture fund, Kindred's mission is to invest in brilliant and dedicated founders at the earliest stages of building their startups. Over the past 14 years, Steve has backed over 100 companies across different theme areas, including Uber, Coinbase, Postmates, Tonal, Color Health, Humane, Perplexity, DYDX, Zora, and Blue Bottle Coffee. Since 2009 and up until IPO, Steve has also served as an Advisor to Uber since the founding of the company, up through initial product launch, global expansion, and then IPO. Steve also serves as an Advisor at Expa, a startup studio based in SF and NY, mentoring startup teams on product development, team building, and company growth. Most recently as an entrepreneur, Steve served as Co-Founder at Future Primitive (a web3 startup studio), Bitski (a NFT wallet and wallet-as-a-service company), and Co-Founder/CEO of SoundTracking, a popular mobile music service that was Apple's Best iPhone Music App of 2011 and was acquired by Rhapsody in 2014. Prior to these startups, in 2005, he was the co-creator and founding team member of the world's first and largest on-demand music streaming service which reached over 100 million monthly unique users before its eventual acquisition by MySpace. As a product developer and inventor, he co-authored a user-generated media usage rights technology patent in 2006, co-developed the first multi-ID system search/indexer API for music metadata in 2012, and co-authored EIP-6551 (smart contract wallets) for Ethereum in 2023. //Investment Theme Areas of Interest// * Artificial Intelligence * Developer Tools * Cloud/Data Infrastructure * Decentralized Systems / Crypto / Web3 * ClimateTech & Sustainable Systems * Consumer Internet & Virtual Worlds * Digital Health & Fitness * Frontier / Deep Tech