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Rachel Field

Investor

Principal at The Engine Ventures

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

About

Principal Rachel Field is a hands-on company-builder who partners with founders—especially in biotech and biomedical hard‑tech—to scale mission-aligned, capital‑intensive climate and hard‑tech ventures.

Invests in

BiotechClimate TechDeep TechEnergyHardwareHealthtech

Experience

  1. Engine VenturesPrincipalcurrent2025 — present
  2. Engine VenturesSenior Associate2024 — 2025Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  3. Engine VenturesAssociate2023Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  4. The EngineAssociate2022 — 2023Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  5. Sensory Cloud, Inc.Co-Founder2022 — 2023
  6. Sensory Cloud, Inc.Head Of Research And Development, Co-Founder2022Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  7. Sensory Cloud, Inc.Technology Lead2017 — 2022Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  8. Columbia University in the City of New YorkPhD, Molecular and Microscale Bioengineering Laboratory2016 — 2021Manhattan, New York
  9. Columbia University in the City of New YorkTeaching Assistant2018 — 2019
  10. Columbia Technology VenturesTechnology Transfer Fellow2019 — 2020New York, New York
  11. oNotesVP Research, Co-Founder2013 — 2017Paris; Boston
  12. oNotesCo-Founder2013 — 2017Cambridge, Massachusetts
  13. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired EngineeringEngineering Research Fellow2012 — 2013Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
  14. Harvard Global Health InstituteIdea Translation Fellow2012Singapore
  15. Harvard Advising Program OfficePeer Advising Fellow2009 — 2012Harvard University
  16. Sealed Air CorporationIntern, Shanghai Office2011
  17. Pontificia Universidad Catolica del PeruUndergraduate Researcher2010
  18. URS CorporationIntern2010

Education

  1. Columbia UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Engineering2016 — 2022
  2. Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science (S.B.), Mechanical Engineering2008 — 2012
  3. Columbia UniversityMaster of Philosophy - MPhil, Biomedical Engineering2016 — 2019
  4. Columbia UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Biomedical Engineering2016 — 2017

Skills & more

Solidworks4Python (Programming Language)1Matlab8Microsoft Office3PowerPoint1AutoCADHTML2ExcelWordJavaScript1InDesignjQuery
+12 moreSolidWorksMicrosoft ExcelMachined PartsC (Programming Language)Data AnalysisResearchMachiningmachine shopMachine LearningDeep Learning3D PrintingRapid Prototyping

Languages French · Italian · Spanish

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DBOSGenominesMantelSublime Systems

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