# Fern Mandelbaum

> Fern Mandelbaum is a seed investor at Emerson Collective backing Education. See 23 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Emerson Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerson-collective)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fern-mandelbaum-a485851/

Fern Mandelbaum is a seed investor at Emerson Collective in San Francisco focused on Education and Women's. Fern Mandelbaum, is an entrepreneur, coach, lecturer and investor. She is a Managing Partner at Vista Venture Partners. Her portfolio includes: Guild Education, BetterUp, MissionU, Andela, Sparta Science, Blendoor, Pique Tea, Tinkergarten, Vocate, FaunaDB, GridSpace, popchips and PicnicHealth. She is also an advisor to Accompany, Talent Sonar,Aplomb, Pair Eyewear, ClockWise, and Ava. Fern teaches Entrepreneurship from Diverse Perspectives, POWer - Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital from the Perspective of Women, and Equity By Design - Building Diverse and Inclusive Organizations at Stanford Business School. She co-teaches the Accel Innovation Scholars Program, a one-year entrepreneurship program for Stanford engineering PhD students. She is a mentor in the Mayfield Fellows Program, in theStanford Technology Ventures Program, and is an adviser to StartX, Stanford’s accelerator. She has lectured at Brown University and San Jose State, and in Stanford’s Ignite, Exec Ed, and Continuing Studies programs.Fern also coaches CEO’s on building companies, and works with companies and venture firms such as LinkedIn, Sequoia, and Intercom on inclusive leadership and building diverse and inclusive organizations.Fern was co-founder and CEO of Skyline Products (acquired by IDEO). She worked at Monitor Ventures, Metcal, Bain and Company, SRI International, Hewlett Packard and the Kyoto Shinyo Bank (in Kyoto, Japan).Fern received an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.A., Economics from Brown University. She enjoys running, cycling, yoga, and going on walks with her family, friends, and colleagues. She is married, and has two children, Miles, 16 and Skylar, 23.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 4 | 17% |
| Women's | 3 | 13% |
| Advertising | 3 | 13% |
| Mobile | 2 | 9% |
| Internet | 2 | 9% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 35% |
| Series A | 8 | 35% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Series C | 2 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Midi Health | Midi Health provides virtual healthcare services focused on midlife women’s health, especially around hormonal changes such as perimenopause and menopause, through personalized care plans delivered by clinicians trained in these areas. Its services include telehealth consultations that can integrate prescription support, supplements, lifestyleguidance, and symptom-specific treatments to address issues like weight, mood, sleep, and sexual wellness. Midi Health also offers tailored support protocols that consider an individual’s health history and goals to guide ongoing care. Its platform makes care accessible online and works with insurance for coverage of visits and prescriptions. The company additionally offers targeted supplements designed to complement its clinical care approach. | $100M | Series D | Feb 03, 2026 | https://www.joinmidi.com |
| Midi Health | Midi Health provides virtual healthcare services focused on midlife women’s health, especially around hormonal changes such as perimenopause and menopause, through personalized care plans delivered by clinicians trained in these areas. Its services include telehealth consultations that can integrate prescription support, supplements, lifestyleguidance, and symptom-specific treatments to address issues like weight, mood, sleep, and sexual wellness. Midi Health also offers tailored support protocols that consider an individual’s health history and goals to guide ongoing care. Its platform makes care accessible online and works with insurance for coverage of visits and prescriptions. The company additionally offers targeted supplements designed to complement its clinical care approach. | $63M | Series B | Apr 24, 2024 | https://www.joinmidi.com |
| ReflexAI | ReflexAI provides organizations with tools that transform how they train, develop, and empower their frontline teams. It aims to bring machine learning and natural language processing to mission-driven and people-centric organizations. | $3.3M | Seed | Jul 27, 2023 | https://www.reflexai.com/ |
| Planet FWD | Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform. Planet FWD's carbon-neutral food products intended to reverse climate change. The company uses regenerative ingredients and compostable packaging enabling consumers to reduce the carbon footprint from the atmosphere and consume climate-friendly products. | $10M | Series A | May 26, 2022 | https://planetfwd.com/ |
| Syndio | Syndio is a technology company that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity.Syndio’s mission is to empower employers to eradicate unlawful pay disparities due to gender, race, and ethnicity and make ongoing compensation decisions that are consistent and equitable. Syndio customers drastically reduce legal risk, savemillions in ongoing remediation, and create a positive brand reputation, which helps attract and retain top talent at every level of the business. Over time, we help companies close their pay gap. Syndio is proud to partner with brands – including Salesforce, Nordstrom, General Mills, Nerdwallet, Match Group and many more – who are leading the way in equity and setting the standard for workplace fairness.Syndio pay equity analysis software helps companies quickly analyze and resolve pay gaps, empowering them to do the right thing while doing what’s best for their business. The company license software to companies that are serious about equal pay and help them find and fix pay equity issues, and stay in compliance over time. | $50M | Series C | Sep 27, 2021 | http://www.synd.io |
| Seven Starling | Seven Starling is a digital clinic uniquely focused on treatment for perinatal mental health conditions like postpartum depression and anxiety. Through a combination of individualized therapy, peer support, and medication, its evidence-based care model is backed by research that shows that 90% of patients will feel better within 3 months. | $2.9M | Seed | Sep 21, 2021 | https://www.sevenstarling.com |
| Nana Academy | Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities. | $17.5M | Series A | May 25, 2021 | https://nanaacademy.org |
| Syndio | Syndio is a technology company that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity.Syndio’s mission is to empower employers to eradicate unlawful pay disparities due to gender, race, and ethnicity and make ongoing compensation decisions that are consistent and equitable. Syndio customers drastically reduce legal risk, savemillions in ongoing remediation, and create a positive brand reputation, which helps attract and retain top talent at every level of the business. Over time, we help companies close their pay gap. Syndio is proud to partner with brands – including Salesforce, Nordstrom, General Mills, Nerdwallet, Match Group and many more – who are leading the way in equity and setting the standard for workplace fairness.Syndio pay equity analysis software helps companies quickly analyze and resolve pay gaps, empowering them to do the right thing while doing what’s best for their business. The company license software to companies that are serious about equal pay and help them find and fix pay equity issues, and stay in compliance over time. | $17.1M | Series B | Jan 07, 2021 | http://www.synd.io |
| Planet FWD | Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform. Planet FWD's carbon-neutral food products intended to reverse climate change. The company uses regenerative ingredients and compostable packaging enabling consumers to reduce the carbon footprint from the atmosphere and consume climate-friendly products. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 10, 2020 | https://planetfwd.com/ |
| Career Karma | Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. Over 1 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching.By offering free coaching and peer mentorship, Career Karma has grown to over 150,000 members from every background and profession.Through its directory of 9,000 boot camps and tradeschools, career switchers discover training programs by comparing courses and reading student reviews.The Career Karma mobile app makes your decision even easier. In the app, you can connect with current students and alumni to find your ideal program and get prepared for admission. | $10M | Series A | Dec 09, 2020 | https://careerkarma.com/ |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Harrison Metal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-metal-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ulu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulu-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Concrete Rose Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/concrete-rose-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kapor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapor-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Emerson Collective

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Emerson Collective is an organization dedicated to removing barriers to opportunity so people can live to their full potential. Established and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, we center our work on education, immigration reform, the environment, and other social justice initiatives. We use a wide range of tools and strategies—partnering withentrepreneurs and experts, parents and policymakers, advocates and administrators—to develop and execute innovative solutions that will spur change and promote equality.

5 contacts available at Emerson Collective.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arne Duncan | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arne-duncan |
| Marc Ecko | Chair of Culture Council | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-ecko |
| Sarah A. Pinto Peyronel | Partner (Senior Director) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarah-a-pinto-peyronel |
| Steve McDermid | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-mcdermid |
| Amy Low | Managing Director, Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-low |

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## FAQ

### What does Fern Mandelbaum invest in?

Fern Mandelbaum invests primarily in Education, Women's and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Fern Mandelbaum?

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### When did Fern Mandelbaum last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Fern Mandelbaum closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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