Kanyi Maqubela is a co-founder and board member at Heartbeat Health, a leading virtual care platform for cardiology, since 2017. Additionally, Kanyi serves as a board member and advisor at Tala, managing partner at Kindred Ventures, and holds board positions at UCSF Foundation Investment Company, Basis Theory, Faircraft, and Dupe.com. Previous roles include adjunct professor at New York University and partner at Collaborative Fund. Kanyi's early career included a position as field director at Virgance. Kanyi is a Stanford University dropout, where the area of study was philosophy.