Elaine Stead - scientist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist

This time our guest is the smart and lovely Elaine Stead - scientist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist.BIOElaine Stead is a venture capital investor based in Adelaide. Her investment track record extends to over 80 startups across Australia, the United States and South East Asia. She has also invested in many of the best.Elaine Has been a scientist, turned entrepreneur, turned venture capitalist, and never quite shed any of these roles.Across over two decades in the innovation sector, Elaine has been a serial entrepreneur, founding medtech company Reproductive Health Science and Blue Sky VC a subsidiary of Blue Sky Alternative investments, Human VC and Artefact ventures. She is one of the longest serving still active venture capitalists in Australia, having been involved in the management of over $450 m across five venture fund vintages, four within her own fund manager, Blue Sky VC.