Cecily Mak
Founding Partner @ Wisdom Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Cecily Mak is a seed investor at Wisdom Ventures in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Medical and Women's. Cecily Mak is the Chief Operating Officer at Blockdaemon. CECILY MAK is an experienced start-up operator whose background in strategic partnerships, fundraising, revenue generation, adaptive planning, and talent optimization provides companies insights on ways to excel in dynamic contexts. As an investor, CEO/founder coach, attorney,professor of law, and natural evangelist, she is well versed in helping founders and leadership teams navigate through critical stages with efficiency and clear priorities, all while keeping the big picture in mind.Cecily’s start-up experience spans two decades with companies disrupting old models of media and consumer technology. Currently as Venture Partner with blockchain product development and investment firm ConsenSys, she drives strategy, operations, investor relations, and many other market-facing activities. While at blue chip VC-backed Silicon Valley based Flipboard, Inc., in addition to her Chief Legal and Business Officer roles, she served as CRO for two years to pivot the company’s revenue strategy and raise $150M in two funding rounds (Series C & D). Previously she was a member of the founding team that spun Rhapsody International, Inc. (now Napster) out of a JV between Viacom and RealNetworks with funding from Best Buy and Universal Music Group. She coaches leaders across her portfolio on fundraising, reorgs, OKR establishment and execution, DEI initiatives, and overall operational efficiency and excellence. Cecily serves as Vice Chair on the board of directors for the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (spun out from Google), taught Digital Media Law at UC Hastings for twelve years, and maintains positions on advisory boards of several companies in the consumer software and mindfulness industries. Her career experience provides boards with valuable perspectives and unique insights as they support innovators and leaders in exceeding revenue, strategy, and talent optimization goals. She is frequently sought out to speak on the topics of DEI and adaptive leadership, which she is happy to do between trail runs and serving as an advisor to her 12 year old son’s kid market research start-up, KidBak.
- Total investments:
- 1
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Medical 1 (100%)
- Women's 1 (100%)
- Software 1 (100%)
- Health Care 1 (100%)
- Home Health Care 1 (100%)
Investments
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| Malama Health offers holistic support through community-based doulas, covering various services like pregnancy care and postpartum recovery. The company connects community-based doulas, health plans, and clinical systems across Medicaid markets through a unified operating model that standardizes referral processes, data tracking, risk management,and quality assessment. By incorporating remote patient monitoring, chronic disease management, and Doula-Care Navigators, Malama Health assists women from pregnancy through the postpartum period, addressing clinical requirements, social health factors, and long-term disease prevention all in one location. | $6.9M / Seed / Mar 12, 2026 |
Co-Investors
About Wisdom Ventures
Wisdom Ventures is seed venture fund in San Francisco, investing globally in compassion and wellness start-ups; leveraging a partner team with extensive networks and proven track record as investors, experts and leaders.
Wisdom Ventures Contacts
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Bradley Horowitz
General Partner
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Cecily Mak
Founding Partner
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Diego Perez Lacera
General Partner
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Jack Kornfield
General Partner - Wisdom Holder
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Ruchika Sikri
General Partner
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What does Cecily Mak invest in?
Cecily Mak invests primarily in Medical, Women's and Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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