Jim McKelvey
Co-Founder and General Partner @ Cultivation Capital
San Francisco, United States
Jim McKelvey is a seed investor at Cultivation Capital in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Jim McKelvey is the Founder and CEO of Invisibly. He previously worked at IBM as a Visiting Scientist. Jim McKelvey attended Washington University in St. Louis.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Jim McKelvey invests in
Stages Jim McKelvey invests in
Countries Jim McKelvey invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $750k–$10M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$10M
- Series B
- $17M–$26M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (14%)
- Financial Services 2 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (14%)
- Apps 1 (7%)
- AgTech 1 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (36%)
- Series A 3 (21%)
- Series B 2 (14%)
- Grant 1 (7%)
- Post-IPO Equity 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 9 (64%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Noble Mobile is a telecommunication company that offers wireless network and data plan services. | $10.4M / Seed / Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| The platform that makes AI defensible. | $7.3M / Seed / Apr 14, 2025 | ||
| Rezilient Health bridges the convenience of telehealth with the broad scope of in-person care by offering neighborhood hubs where families can get virtual access to their doctor as well as physical exams, labs, and imaging. | $10M / Series A / Oct 03, 2024 | ||
| Solis Agrosciences provides R&D crop development services to Agtech companies. Founded in 2021, Solis Agrosciences is a plant science services company on a mission to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and commercialization. | $1.5M / Series A / Jul 13, 2023 | ||
| Solis Agrosciences provides R&D crop development services to Agtech companies. Founded in 2021, Solis Agrosciences is a plant science services company on a mission to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and commercialization. | $3.1M / Seed / Dec 07, 2022 | ||
| Solis Agrosciences provides R&D crop development services to Agtech companies. Founded in 2021, Solis Agrosciences is a plant science services company on a mission to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and commercialization. | $2.8M / Series A / Nov 29, 2022 | ||
| UNest is an app democratizing access to smart financial solutions for all families. It helps parents build a better financial future for their children. In five minutes, you can open a UTMA account for your child and no paperwork is required. All members receive access to advisor-guided investment plans, the app's simple gifting feature,UNest Rewards and they can easily set up recurring contributions. In 2018, Ksenia Yudina founded UNest in North Hollywood, California. | $26M / Series B / Nov 11, 2021 | ||
| Cazoo is pioneering the shift to online car buying and selling in the UK and mainland Europe and has already sold over 35,000 cars since its launch less than two years ago to consumers across the UK who have embraced the selection, transparency and convenience of buying quality used cars entirely online. Cazoo is also Europe’s leading consumer carsubscription player with thousands of subscribers across the UK, France and Germany.Cazoo has developed a market leading brand and fully integrated platform, where it owns and reconditions all its cars before offering them for either delivery or collection in as little as 72 hours. Over the past three years, Cazoo has grown its team to over 2,500 customer-obsessed staff, focussed on delivering the best car buying and selling experience to consumers across the UK & Europe. Already the leading online car retailer in the UK, Cazoo is expanding into mainland Europe as it seeks to disrupt the largely offline $700 billion used car market. | $800M / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 27, 2021 | ||
| Curate is a software platform for event professionals that allows them to perfectly curate their events, especially events with thousands of small pieces. Event professionals touch millions of rentals, florals, ingredients, and lives each year, the company is here to help curate all of it. | $1.3M / Seed / Jun 18, 2021 | ||
| Washington University in St. Louis will challenge you to realize your potential. They inspire and support each other with a view toward both individual and collective success. They are a community of individuals with inner fire and quiet confidence, inspired to work together to develop big ideas and tackle challenging problems.Their missiondrives who they are as a university. As they accept the challenge of thier mission’s goals of inclusion and excellence, they are always evolving to meet the needs of their current and prospective students as well as thier alumni, faculty and staff. They focus on strategic priorities that produce the most impact toward their goal of enhancing the lives of their students, their community and their world.Their campuses demonstrate their commitment to an inclusive community that is welcoming, nurturing and intellectually rigorous. Throughout Washington University’s history they have set their sights high and judged their-selves by the most exacting standards. With a view toward individual and collective success, their mission moves us to inspire and support one another. | Grant / Jan 31, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Cultivation Capital
Cultivation Capital is a venture capital firm that manages a family of funds focused on early-stage investing. Most of our initial investments are during a startup’s Seed or Series A phase, and our initial checks range from $500k – $3.5M. Our industries of focus include life sciences and health tech, software and IT, agriculture tech, andgeospatial tech.
Cultivation Capital Contacts
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Alana Mann
Principal
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Andy Dearing
General Partner
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Brian Matthews
Co-Founder & General Partner
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David Smoller
General Partner - Life Sciences Fund
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Dean VandeKamp
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Jim McKelvey invest in?
Jim McKelvey invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Jim McKelvey's check size?
Jim McKelvey typically joins rounds of $750k–$10M at Seed, $1.5M–$10M at Series A and $17M–$26M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jim McKelvey participates in.
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When did Jim McKelvey last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jim McKelvey closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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