Kristina Fontanez, PhD

VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital fund focusing on Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare, and PropTech

TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"

VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital fund focusing on Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare, and PropTech

Fluent BioSciences, an Illumina company, is a biotechnology company with a mission to accelerate the understanding of biology and disease through simple, cost effective and scalable solutions for every laboratory from research to the clinic. Fluent’s breakthrough Pre-templated Instant Partitions (PIPseq™) technology enables near-instantaneous self-assembly of individual cells or molecules into millions of uniform partitions without the need for complex instrumentation or expensive consumables. This powerful platform enables extremely sensitive and unbiased preparation of proteins and nucleic acids for a broad range of discovery and disease applications including single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq).

Fontanez Consulting works with biotechnology startups developing diagnostic and life science products. We provide strategic advice and scientific support to help our clients overcome technical challenges associated with new product development.

Founded in 2005, Intelligent Bio-Systems is a developer and manufacturer of next generation DNA sequencing systems including instruments, reagents and disposables. The company is the exclusive licensee of seminal patents from Columbia University. Intelligent Bio-Systems merged with a division of Qiagen in 2012.