Elena Medo
Elena Medo is the CEO of Medolac Laboratories, A Public Benefit Corporation which she co-founded with Adrianne Weir. Medo has dedicated her career to improving outcomes for preterm infants by using technology to increase access to lifesaving human milk. Medolac offers the first ready to feed, sterile, shelf stable human milk that can be shipped and stored at room temperature.
Medo has raised over $35M for her last three life science startups, using disruptive innovation to achieve the goal of feeding the world’s 15 million preterm infants born each year. She holds numerous patents and her contributions to the space prior to Medolac include the development of the double breast pumping system, the first online milk bank, the first customized formulation of human milk to treat preterm infants and the first midrange IR human milk analyzer.
Medo has raised over $35M for her last three life science startups, using disruptive innovation to achieve the goal of feeding the world’s 15 million preterm infants born each year. She holds numerous patents and her contributions to the space prior to Medolac include the development of the double breast pumping system, the first online milk bank, the first customized formulation of human milk to treat preterm infants and the first midrange IR human milk analyzer.