# Alan Kelley

> Alan Kelley is a Series A investor at SJF Ventures (San Anselmo) backing Software and News. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SJF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sjf-ventures)
- Location: San Anselmo, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alan-kelley/0/900/147
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/akelley99
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alan.kelley3

Alan Kelley is a Series A investor at SJF Ventures in San Anselmo focused on Software and News. Alan Sanders Kelley is based out of San Anselmo, California and is the Managing Director of SJF Ventures. Alan previously worked at Trusco Capital Management as a investment management role. Alan Sanders Kelley attended the Duke University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| News | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Farming | 1 | 13% |
| Big Data | 1 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Revalue Nature | Revalue Nature supercharge the world's leading nature-based carbon project developers. | $10M | Series A | Jul 27, 2023 |  |
| Cooks Venture | Cooks Venture operates as a regenerative pasture-raised chicken and meat company. It ships selected cuts of pasture-raised heirloom chicken and pasture-raised meats, which are individually sealed and ready to cook.The company is supportive of and committed to adopting the Better Chicken Commitment. It is exclusively using its own approved breedand is certified by Global Animal Partnership Step Level 4 where birds have access to diversified pastures. | $10M | Series A | Jul 22, 2020 |  |
| LeadGenius | LeadGenius is an end-to-end sales solution that provides companies with a way to generate, qualify, deliver, and convert leads. It helps sales teams grow and scale across all levels of the sales process. LeadGenius was launched by Anand Kulkarni, Prayag Narula, and Dave Rolnitzky in 2011. | $10M | Series B | Aug 04, 2016 |  |
| ServiceChannel | ServiceChannel provides companies with a platform to procure, manage and pay for facility maintenance and operations services from commercial service providers. By providing a real-time, web-based view of service data across all trades, locations, and contractors, companies use ServiceChannel to maintain brand equity and drive significant ROI fortheir organizations without relinquishing control to outsourcers or investing in new infrastructure.ServiceChannel was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, United States. |  |  | Jan 20, 2015 |  |
| Easy Metrics | Easy Metrics is a SaaS-based business intelligence platform that helps companies identify and optimize their labor costs. The company's labor management system delivers 40% productivity improvements while providing significantly enhanced insights into labor-intensive activities. Cost savings are often shared with employees, producing botheconomic and job quality benefits.Easy Metrics also provides a subscription-based cloud solution that customers can implement on a facility-by-facility basis. This enables easy adoption and rapid scale-up within new customers, without substantial up-front capital or deployment costs. They created a system where individual metrics were tracked per work process and incorporated multiple variables in the process mapping to create fair and consistent labor standards across all work processes.Founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, USA. | $3.3M | Series A | Sep 11, 2013 |  |
| ServiceChannel | ServiceChannel provides companies with a platform to procure, manage and pay for facility maintenance and operations services from commercial service providers. By providing a real-time, web-based view of service data across all trades, locations, and contractors, companies use ServiceChannel to maintain brand equity and drive significant ROI fortheir organizations without relinquishing control to outsourcers or investing in new infrastructure.ServiceChannel was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, United States. | $15M |  | Jan 01, 2008 |  |
| MedPageToday | MedPage Today is a health care media company that delivers breaking medical news to physicians and patients. Healthcare professionals who read MedPage Internet-based content and pass a subsequent test receive continuing medical education credits from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, which is an active partner in producing MedPagecontent. | $2.1M |  | Mar 08, 2007 |  |
| Preclick | Preclick is a media asset management software company founded to provide digital photographers the fastest, easiest and most convenient way to organize, print, preserve and share their digital photos.Preclick builds software for major corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, 3M, SanDisk, Costco and many online photofinishers includingPhotoWorks, dotPhoto and Adorama. Preclick has collaborated with HP in building HP Photosmart Essential (formerly HP Image Zone Express), the free software that makes it extremely easy to print your photos at home or to effortlessly share them online with your friends and family. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. As of September 1, 2009, Preclick Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Smilebox, Inc. | $1.6M | Series A | Feb 20, 2007 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bee Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Better Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cultivian Sandbox Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cultivian-sandbox-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ecosystem Integrity Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ecosystem-integrity-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fuel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Javelin Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/javelin-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SJF Ventures

VC Fund · Durham, United States

SJF Ventures is a venture capital partnership with offices in Durham, New York and San Francisco. Through its investment funds, the firm provides equity financings from $1MM to $10MM, solo or in syndicates, to companies seeking growth capital.As a venture fund, SJF Ventures focuses on the resource efficiency, sustainability andtechnology-enhanced services sectors. Representative investment areas include efficiency and infrastructure, asset recovery including reuse and recycling, sustainable agriculture and food safety, health and wellness technology, education technology and digital media and marketing services.When assessing investment opportunities, SJF Ventures is highly selective in identifying teams, markets and business models that can achieve rapid sales, strong profitability, and premium exits. In addition, SJF looks to partner with entrepreneurs who are committed to positively impacting the world through the businesses that they are creating.

5 contacts available at SJF Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Kelley | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-kelley |
| David Griest | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-griest |
| Emma Sissman | Director, Portfolio Acceleration | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emma-sissman |
| Jackie Lipkin | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jackie-lipkin-56c4 |
| Rick Defieux | Co-Founder & Investment Committee Chair | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rick-defieux |

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## FAQ

### What does Alan Kelley invest in?

Alan Kelley invests primarily in Software, News and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alan Kelley last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alan Kelley closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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