Kanyi Maqubela

Kanyi Maqubela (born May 24, 1985) is an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger. Maqubela is an investment partner at Collaborative Fund, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in companies such as Lyft, AltSchool, Impossible Foods, Modern Meadow, and Blue Bottle Coffee Company.
Career
Maqubela began his career as an early employee at Doostang. He worked at Doostang from 2006 to 2008. After working in Nevada on the field staff for Obama for America, Maqubela joined One Block Off the Grid, where he was field director.
In 2011 Maqubela joined Collaborative Fund as an entrepreneur-in-residence, which was established to invest in for-good technology venture capital companies by Craig Shapiro. Based in New York City, it grew into an investment fund that has $125 million under management across over 50 investments. Maqubela serves as board observer or director for , , Camino Financial, and True Link Financial. and blogs regularly on matters of investing, impact, and technology.
Since 2016, Maqubela has served as an adjunct instructor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, through the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in entrepreneurship.
Writing
Maqubela has been a contributor to a number of publications on matters of technology and investing, including The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company
 
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