Building Real Startups with Purpose

1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Building Real Startups with Purpose – Kanyi Maqubela 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. &nbsp; 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 &gt; Demographics Where fintech is heading—just-in-time lending, modular ledgers, and more Balancing profit and purpose in early-stage companies &nbsp; PayPod: The Payments and Fintech Podcast http://www.soarpay.com/podcast/ <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/36292330/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/36292330