Partner
Fern Mandelbaum
Managing Member, Vista Venture Partners
- Firm
- Vista Venture Partners
- Title
- Managing Member
- Role
- Employee
Record updated 1 October 2026
About
In addition to investing, Fern Mandelbaum is an entrepreneur, coach, and teacher. She specializes in creating and growing technology-focused businesses primarily in the consumer internet, mobile, media, and software space. Since 1998, Ms. Mandelbaum has worked with CEO’s helping them develop and refine their business concepts, recruit management teams, key advisors, and board members, implement fundraising strategies, and establish strategic alliances. Ms. Mandelbaum teaches Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Women at Stanford Business School and co-teaches the Accel Innovation Scholars Program in the Engineering School. She has been a mentor and advisor in the Mayfield Fellows Program, part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, for ten years, and is an adviser to StartX, Stanford’s accelerator.
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