Rich Kleiman is an Americansports agent and entrepreneur. He is the manager of Kevin Durant He is also the co-founder of Thirty Five Ventures, a company he founded with Kevin Durant. Kleiman oversees the company's diverse investment portfolio; the emerging media and creative development arm; and the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation.
Career
Media projects under the Thirty Five Ventures umbrella include The Boardroom, a platform examining the business of sports, including a flagship video interview series, 2 seasons on ESPN+, an e-newsletter and more; the forthcoming original basketball-themed scripted series "SWAGGER," in partnership with Imagine Entertainment and Apple, and “Q Ball”, the documentary in conjunction with Fox Sports Films, which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival this year, A Kid From Coney Island, a feature-length documentary on the rise, fall, and rebirth of Stephon Marbury, Basketball County: In The Water, a documentary that tells the story of Prince George’s County, Md. and how it recently produced more elite basketball players than anywhere else in the world. Rich Kleiman sits on the advisory board for Canopy Rivers, a venture capital firm specializing in cannabis, as well as Athletes Unlimited, a new league revolutionizing women's team sports. Kleiman personally oversees Thirty Five Venture's diverse investment portfolio, which includes Overtime, a leading sports network focused on young, digital-native sports fans; online digital-currency platform Coinbase, spare-change app Acorns, cloud-computing startup Rubrik, delivery company Postmates, a social and gaming platform for sports Sleeper, and others.
Philanthropy
Kleiman is heavily involved in the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation helping to complete new basketball court renovations across the globe and opening the Durant Center in Maryland's Prince George’s County, which helps low-income and underserved students enroll and graduate from college. Kleiman also sits on the Board of Directors for New Heights Youth, Inc. which is a non-profit sports-based youth-development and educational organization based in New York City.
Early career
In 2008 Rich Kleiman started working at Jay-Z's Roc Nation as a music manager where he represented his high school friend Mark Ronson, Solange and Wale. In 2013, Kleiman helped launch Roc Nation Sports where he then served as Vice President of the agency. He also served as executive producer on HBO's The Offseason: Kevin Durant and Jay-Z's Fade To Black.
