Steve Jang

Steve Jang is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Kindred Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. Before establishing his current firm, he served as a General Partner at Upfront Ventures from 2013 to 2018, where he notably led early investments in Snapchat, and previously worked as an early employee at MySpace. Under his leadership, the Kindred Ventures portfolio has expanded to include over 100 companies that have collectively raised more than $2 billion in follow-on funding. In March 2025, the firm announced a $150 million fund dedicated to artificial intelligence and consumer technology, building upon his 2024 seed investment in the unicorn startup Character.ai. The Stanford University economics graduate maintains a primary investment focus on pre-seed and seed-stage opportunities across the consumer internet, artificial intelligence, and creator economy sectors.