Melissa Fensterstock

VC

2023 - Current

Interest in future of human and planetary health. Frontier technology spanning from space, women's health, climahealth, water, brain-machine interfaces, and beyond!

Expert-in-Residence (XIR)

2024

Advising ARPA-H on how to translate its programs into health solutions for all.

Member Board of Trustees

2023

Connecticut Public is the statewide affiliate of NPR and PBS along with other national programming. Connecticut Public has four television stations airing three distinct broadcast channels —CPTV; CPTV Spirit and CPTV 24/7 Kids—; multiple radio stations and translator sites across the state extending the reach of Connecticut Public Radio throughout Connecticut and the Northern end of Long Island, New York. CT Public hosts two primary websites—ctpublic.org and CPTV.org—and a print partnership with Connecticut Magazine. Connecticut Public also regularly publishes a wide variety of e-mail newsletters for citizens interested in news, education, health, children's and family information, television programming and others.

Entrepreneur in Residence

2023

https://ventures.yale.edu/our-team/melissa-fensterstock-mba

EIR

2024

Young Leaders Circle

2023

Advisor

2023 - 2024

https://ventures.jhu.edu/programs-services/fastforward/resources-programs/nest/melissa-fensterstock/

Executive in Residence

2022 - 2023

As an Executive in Residence at Columbia Technology Ventures, I work with entrepreneurs and inventors at Columbia University to facilitate the transfer of research innovations from the lab to the market, as well as supporting startup efforts. Columbia Technology Ventures, the technology transfer office of Columbia University, manages more than 400 invention disclosures from faculty, 100 license deals and 20+ new startups each year. CTV currently has over 1,500 patent assets available for licensing across research fields such as biopharma, medical devices, software, cleantech, semiconductors, and material science. To learn more about CTV and available inventions, please visit http://www.techventures.columbia.edu/

Chief Executive Officer

2017 - 2023

Landsdowne Labs is a Bob Langer + Jeff Karp company out of MIT & Harvard. - Successful fundraising of seed round. - Developed R&D from bench to product - Recruited and hired team - Determined go to market strategy - Focused on execution of product roadmap, secured investment, managed budget - Secured world renowned advisors - Executed partnership with one of worlds largest metal and mining companies - SBIR awardee

Advisor/Cofounder - biotech/medtech

2018 - 2021