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Building Real Startups with Purpose – Kanyi Maqubela

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Episode Topic:

Kanyi Maqubela, Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, joins PayPod to discuss how values-led venture capital supports high-impact startups across fintech, climate, and more. Discover how Kindred identifies founders who move fast, think big, and adapt as they scale game-changing ideas into real-world solutions.

Lessons You’ll Learn:

Why startup success hinges on speed and altitude-shifting, how to think about funding vs. profitability, and the importance of empathetic market insight when serving underrepresented or global communities.

About Our Guest:

Kanyi Maqubela is the Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, a firm backing mission-aligned startups that want to reshape industries. With investments across fintech, health, and frontier tech, Kanyi draws from years of founder-first investing and has a sharp lens on team-building, product-market fit, and scalable impact.

Topics Covered:

  • The role of velocity and quick iteration in startup success

  • How VC can be a vehicle for real-world problem solving

  • Startup risk frameworks and phases of survival

  • The critical skill of "altitude shifting" in founders

  • Diversity in startups: Empathy > Demographics

  • Where fintech is heading—just-in-time lending, modular ledgers, and more

  • Balancing profit and purpose in early-stage companies

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428 episodes

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Content provided by Soar Payments and Soar Payments LLC. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Soar Payments and Soar Payments LLC or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://staging.podcastplayer.com/legal.
Episode Topic:

Kanyi Maqubela, Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, joins PayPod to discuss how values-led venture capital supports high-impact startups across fintech, climate, and more. Discover how Kindred identifies founders who move fast, think big, and adapt as they scale game-changing ideas into real-world solutions.

Lessons You’ll Learn:

Why startup success hinges on speed and altitude-shifting, how to think about funding vs. profitability, and the importance of empathetic market insight when serving underrepresented or global communities.

About Our Guest:

Kanyi Maqubela is the Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, a firm backing mission-aligned startups that want to reshape industries. With investments across fintech, health, and frontier tech, Kanyi draws from years of founder-first investing and has a sharp lens on team-building, product-market fit, and scalable impact.

Topics Covered:

  • The role of velocity and quick iteration in startup success

  • How VC can be a vehicle for real-world problem solving

  • Startup risk frameworks and phases of survival

  • The critical skill of "altitude shifting" in founders

  • Diversity in startups: Empathy > Demographics

  • Where fintech is heading—just-in-time lending, modular ledgers, and more

  • Balancing profit and purpose in early-stage companies

  continue reading

428 episodes

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