# Christine Schindler

> Christine Schindler is the co-founder and CEO of PathSpot, the maker of the HandScanner - a device that mounts beside a kitchen sink, scans a worker's just-washed hands with light, and flags invisible contamination in seconds. A Duke-trained biomedical engineer who first built low-cost medical tools near Mount Kilimanjaro, she prototyped PathSpot's algorithms in her apartment bathroom, sold her car to fund it, and grew the company into a food-safety operating system used across the restaurant industry. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, a Time Best Invention recognizee, and the founder of the nonprofit Girls Engineering Change.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at PathSpot
- **Organizations:** PathSpot, Girls Engineering Change, Cigna (former), Engineering World Health (former)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Biomedical Engineering and Global Health, Duke University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads PathSpot, maker of the HandScanner contamination-detection device, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Recognized in Time Magazine's best inventions

## Career timeline

- **pre-2017** — Worked on the Innovation and Mergers & Acquisitions team at Cigna; earlier did biomedical research with Engineering World Health, building low-cost medical and cancer-detection tools for resource-constrained settings, including work near Mount Kilimanjaro.
- **2017** — Co-founded PathSpot in August with Dutch Waanders (CTO); prototyped scanning algorithms on nights and weekends in her apartment bathroom, then sold her car and bought a 3D printer to go full-time.
- **2018** — Selected for the Project Entrepreneur accelerator class.
- **2019-2020** — Closed seed financing totaling about $4M and brought on restaurant-industry veterans.
- **2020-05** — Closed a $6.5M Series A led by Valor Siren Ventures, with FIKA Ventures and Walden Venture Capital, amid a roughly 500% surge in demand during the pandemic.
- **2023** — Named a Rising Star in Hospitality Technology's Top Women in Restaurant Technology Awards.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads PathSpot, maker of the HandScanner contamination-detection device
- Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree
- Recognized in Time Magazine's best inventions
- Recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine
- Rising Star, Hospitality Technology Top Women in Restaurant Technology Awards (2023)
- Founded the nonprofit Girls Engineering Change to close the STEM gender gap
- Raised a $6.5M Series A (May 2020); total funding reported in the $8.5M-$10.5M range
- PathSpot reported protecting roughly 1.7 million meals in a year and boosting handwashing frequency by up to 80% at partner sites

## Latest updates

- **2023** — Named a Rising Star in Hospitality Technology's Top Women in Restaurant Technology Awards.
- **2020-05** — PathSpot closed a $6.5M Series A led by Valor Siren Ventures during a major pandemic-driven demand surge.

## Links

- Website: https://pathspot.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-schindler11
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/PathSpot
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAuArpE4nr8
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/pathspot

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Last updated: 2026-06-04