James Paul Luthardt

Founder & CIO of Kirtland Hills Capital; Naval Officer

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
VC🌍 United States
8
Total investments
2
Early stage
1
Mid stage
3
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

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Private Investor
Jun 2025
Supporting your wellness journey with intentionally sourced nutrition 🌿
Board Member
Jun 2025
Velvet Hammer Capital is a private investment firm focused on acquiring, investing in, and building founder-led businesses. We partner with exceptional operators and entrepreneurs to create long-term value through strategic growth, operational excellence, and disciplined capital allocation.
Private Investor
Oct 2024
Harness Homes Group, LLC is a fully integrated real estate firm, focused on providing homeowners and renters sustainable real estate solutions in their home neighborhoods. Harness Homes Group, LLC acquires single and multi-family properties, renovates and then rents these homes to local residents.
late stageReal Estate
Private Investor
Jan 2020
RX3 Growth Partners is an institutional growth equity firm focused on the consumer sector. Backed by decades of consumer industry experience and a dedicated value-add team, we partner with management teams to provide hands-on marketing support, industry and cultural insight, and strategic access to celebrity and influencer networks - helping build brands that resonate and endure.
Private Investor
Jan 2020
FarmTogether is a farmland investment manager focused on unlocking long-term value in U.S. agriculture. We provide accredited and institutional investors with access to real assets through a differentiated, tech-enabled platform. FarmTogether specializes in high-value permanent crop acquisitions in prime growing regions across the country—an underserved market with significant growth potential. Our flagship Crowdfunded Offerings open farmland investing to individual accredited investors with fully automated, seamless access, while additional solutions include Bespoke Sole Ownership, Tenancy in Common (TIC) structures, Separately Managed Accounts, and the Sustainable Farmland Fund. All operating assets are certified under the Leading Harvest Farmland Management Standard, underscoring our commitment to sustainability and responsible farmland management.
Private Investor
Jan 2019
With a focus on great tasting, wellness enhancing, and functionally driven supplement products, LIFEAID Beverage Co. has become a trusted brand among athletes, health-conscious and performance-minded consumers. Headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, LIFEAID is home to premium performance products and passionate people. Their portfolio of better-for-you supplements contains both ready-to-drink and powdered mix blends, including FITAID, FOCUSAID, IMMUNITYAID, DREAMAID, PARTYAID, and now FITAID Energy + Sports Recovery. Visit lifeaidbevco.com to learn more.
late stageConsumer Goods
Private Investor
Jan 2018
Nirvana Water Sciences infuses the best tasting water on Earth with clinically-proven, proprietary health and wellness formulations. Transformative science infused into natural spring water. Life-enhancing benefits for everybody. Every body.
Private Investor
Jan 2018
Leaders in the craft cold brew coffee space. We are purveyors of specialty coffee sourced from all over the world, focusing on connecting people through their coffee.
Experience · 9 entries
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Investments (8)
Board (1)
2025
Private Investor
Jun 2025
Supporting your wellness journey with intentionally sourced nutrition 🌿
Board Member
Jun 2025
Velvet Hammer Capital is a private investment firm focused on acquiring, investing in, and building founder-led businesses. We partner with exceptional operators and entrepreneurs to create long-term value through strategic growth, operational excellence, and disciplined capital allocation.
2024
Private Investor
Oct 2024
Harness Homes Group, LLC is a fully integrated real estate firm, focused on providing homeowners and renters sustainable real estate solutions in their home neighborhoods. Harness Homes Group, LLC acquires single and multi-family properties, renovates and then rents these homes to local residents.
late stageReal Estate
2020
Private Investor
Jan 2020
RX3 Growth Partners is an institutional growth equity firm focused on the consumer sector. Backed by decades of consumer industry experience and a dedicated value-add team, we partner with management teams to provide hands-on marketing support, industry and cultural insight, and strategic access to celebrity and influencer networks - helping build brands that resonate and endure.
Private Investor
Jan 2020
FarmTogether is a farmland investment manager focused on unlocking long-term value in U.S. agriculture. We provide accredited and institutional investors with access to real assets through a differentiated, tech-enabled platform. FarmTogether specializes in high-value permanent crop acquisitions in prime growing regions across the country—an underserved market with significant growth potential. Our flagship Crowdfunded Offerings open farmland investing to individual accredited investors with fully automated, seamless access, while additional solutions include Bespoke Sole Ownership, Tenancy in Common (TIC) structures, Separately Managed Accounts, and the Sustainable Farmland Fund. All operating assets are certified under the Leading Harvest Farmland Management Standard, underscoring our commitment to sustainability and responsible farmland management.
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