Jim McLean focuses on turning scattered AI projects into organized, repeatable systems for companies, and he built Silicon Valley Data Capital around investing across the whole data process, from collecting and moving data to storing it and turning it into insights and AI. He started his career in technical roles at IBM’s Watson Research Center, Ericsson, and Network Equipment Technologies, later investing at firms like Accel, Highland Capital, Bedrock Capital Partners, ComVentures, 3i, and Crosslink, backing companies such as UUNet, Polycom, Sonus, Alantec, V-Bits, and Arbinet, while also co-founding Silicon Valley Data Science, 365 Data Centers, and SiteSmith, and holding a Harvard engineering degree along with a Berkeley Haas MBA.