Russell Buckley Email Address

Partner

At Kindred we align our ambitions and achievements with our portfolio - in structure and in spirit. Every entrepreneur we invest in becomes a co- owner of the fund. We call it ‘equitable venture’. We invest early and work with our community of founders and advisers to help founders get further, faster from the very beginning.

If you are looking for investment, please read this first https://kindredcapital.medium.com/7-reasons-why-founders-shouldnt-talk-to-kindred-1aafa3c3f2c4 And then consider that a warm intro, from someone who knows me, is much more likely to get attention. Just think of it as one of the relatively easy challenges you'll face as an entrepreneur. Kindred Capital is taking a refreshing approach to early stage investing, continuing the founder-friendly approach I've been practicing over the last 4 years. We even share 20% of the fund's partner profits (carry) with the founders we invest in. Previously, I worked with the UK Government to help the cream of UK tech companies get Series A funding in the Afterburner Programme. This has raised $150 million since April 2014, from investors in the UK and Europe, as well as The Valley and Japan. I've also done angel investing via Ballpark Ventures and held a number of advisory and Non-Exec/Chairman roles and mentor startups at TechStars Accelerator. Before that, I started the incredibly successful, AdMob (now part of Google) the mobile advertising network, in Europe as its Managing Director. I'm also the ex-Global Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association and an occasional blogger at MobHappy, I'm now more of a Twitter fiend @russellbuckley. I'm still a mobsessed singularitarian.