A Venture Investing Partner Built For Impact
Launching and growing high-impact venture investing platforms for corporations, institutional funds, non-profits and family offices.
A Venture Investing Partner Built For Impact
Wyldera Venture Partners brings deep industry expertise, strategic connectivity, and actionable guidance to every engagement. Our success is defined by the value creation, reputation and longevity of our clients' investing platforms. Our commitment is to building your capabilities, expertise, impact and independence.
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Launching a new investment program, whether an institutional fund, corporate venture unit, non-profit impact fund, or family office platform, shouldn't mean navigating it alone. We draw on decades of institutional experience to guide new investors through strategy development, organizational design, operations, and deal execution, helping you avoid common pitfalls and focus on finding great opportunities and value creation.
Even successful investment programs hit inflection points that require fresh expertise and capacity. We bring seasoned venture investor experience to filling leadership gaps, optimize underperforming functions, and accelerate your path to the next milestone, whether that's expanding your mandate, building strategic value creation capabilities, strengthening stakeholder alignment, succession planning, or developing institutional-grade infrastructure.
Wyldera Labs
Wyldera Labs is our own workshop, and at our core we're entrepreneurs. It's where we put the latest technology to work building real solutions to problems we run into, in our work and in the world. The discipline of making something from nothing keeps us close to the reality our clients live every day.
We build software and digital products of our own, turning the problems we notice into tools that solve them.
We shape investment theses and prototype the vehicles and platform structures to act on them, pressure-testing models that align returns with impact for people and planet.
We put the latest AI and tooling to work in everything we build, partly to move faster, partly because we can't resist what's newly possible.
About
James Macon is Founder & Managing Director of Wyldera Venture Partners, a venture investing advisory firm serving corporate venture units, institutional funds, and family offices. As a former Partner at Mach49, James specialized in corporate venture capital fund design and execution, leading CVC engagements ranging from $10M to $500M for Global 1000 companies across semiconductors, materials science, energy infrastructure, and mining sectors. His work encompassed investment strategy development, entity structuring, governance design, team formation, and partner-in-residence support for deal execution and portfolio management. He co-founded and managed Closed Loop Capital, a venture capital fund platform investing in early-stage agriculture technologies and food system innovations. James brings hands-on venture operating experience from a range of new ventures including eSecLending, where he drove strategic planning and corporate development efforts including the sale of the fintech business to TA Associates. He holds an MBA from Cornell University's Johnson School, where he focused on venture capital and high-growth business management, and a BA from Hamilton College.
A venture program has to earn its place by creating real strategic and financial value for the parent organization. That's the work, and it's non-negotiable. But the programs I'm proudest to help build reach for something more: capital that also does right by the people and the planet it touches. That is the higher ceiling of what a well-built platform can reach for, and I'm glad to help any client who wants to aim there.
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Whether you're launching your first venture platform, filling a leadership gap in your CVC, or optimizing an institutional fund, we want to connect with you.