Fern Mandelbaum

Fern is a Managing Director at Emerson Collective, where she leads early-stage investing. She is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she created and teaches classes on entrepreneurship. Fern started and runs Emerson Consequential Scholars where she teaches PhDs and Postdocs the entrepreneurial mindset. Fern was the co-founder of Vista Venture Partners, an early-stage venture firm, founding team member of Monitor Ventures, an early-stage venture fund, and co-founder of Skyline Products, a toy invention firm that was acquired by IDEO. Fern has also worked at Bain, HP, Metcal and the Kyoto Shinkin Bank. Fern studied economics at Brown University, and received her MBA from Stanford.

Fern is always happy to talk about any of her founders or consequential companies, including Midi Health, Guild Education, Syndio, Conduit, Field AI, BetterUp, CoActive AI, Conduit, Cora, Upside, Intus Care, Twelve, PlanetFWD, Anthro, ReflexAI and Switch Bio.

Fern was raised in New York City, and now calls Palo Alto, California home. She enjoys running, cycling, yoga, and going on walks with her family, friends, students, and teammates.