Elaine Stead

Entrepreneurship / Leadership / Venture Capital

📍 Greater Adelaide Area, Australia🔄 Updated October 2026💼 10 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
VC🌍 Australia
10
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Board Member
2019
The mission of Fivecast is to enable a safer world. Fivecast is a world-leading provider of digital intelligence solutions that enable the world’s most important public and private organizations to explore masses of data, uncovering actionable insights which are critical to protecting global communities.
Board Member
2019
Myriota has pioneered a new way to retrieve data from anywhere on earth, either on land or at sea. In a landmark partnership with Spire Global, Myriota will deliver near real-time IoT connectivity by the end of 2022! Leveraging years of customer focused R&D and an extensive suite of patented innovations, Myriota delivers secure, low-cost, long-battery life satellite IoT connectivity.
Board Member
Jan 2018
StartupAUS is a national not-for-profit organisation with the mission of transforming Australia through technology entrepreneurship. Our key objectives are to build awareness for technology entrepreneurship and to advocate for better policy on behalf of technology entrepreneurs and investors. StartupAUS works to make Australia one of the best places in the world to build and grow a tech startup.
Board Member
2018
At KidSense Therapy Group, we provide the highest quality of Speech & Language, Social-Cognitive, Occupational, Physical and Behavioral Health support; including Mental Health Counseling services. Therapy is delivered in a small, nurturing group environment, as well as individual sessions. KidSense employs excellent experienced and licensed Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Mental Health Counselors and Physical Therapists.
Board Observer
Feb 2016
Vinomofo is all about good wine, real people, and the most epic wine deals on the planet. From cult classics to indie gems handcrafted in the sheds of tomorrow’s legends, we source and sell wines that we drink and love to our members. There’s no wine snobbery at the ‘Fo. No bowties or bs. We have fun with wine. Our deals are the best wine deals on the planet. Whatever someone wants to spend on a wine — $10 or $100 — we’ll give them a better wine at that price. But you get more than deals at the ‘Fo — we also share our wine discoveries, experiences, knowledge and passion with our community. Finalist - Favourite Wine Retailer, Expat Living Singapore, Readers Choice Awards 2018 Finalist - Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ Asia Pacific 2017 Top 25 - Great Place to Work Australia 2016 Winner - Telstra Business of the Year - Victorian Telstra Business Awards 2016 Winner - Online Retailer of the Year, Online Retailer Industry Awards 2015 Winner - Best Marketing Initiative for Vinobomb, Online Retailer Industry Awards 2015 Winner - Best Pure-play Retailer, Online Retailer Industry Awards 2015
Board Member
2015
Fragmented customer data = fragmented customer experiences. Lexer’s Customer Data Platform helps retailers genuinely understand their customers and engage them with the experiences they deserve. A SINGLE CUSTOMER VIEW > Combine all of your purchase, product, loyalty and engagement data into unified customer profiles that marketers can understand and use. > Enrich your 1st-party data with 3rd-party demographic, location, propensity to buy and lifestyle data. ENHANCED CUSTOMER PROFILES > Intelligent profiles summarize products purchased, campaigns engaged with, orders made, where they prefer to shop and more. > Predict lifetime value, next likely purchase date, which product they’ll buy next, which channel to reach them on and churn risk. ACTIONABLE CUSTOMER INSIGHTS AND HIGH VALUE SEGMENTS > Create and compare customer segments using attributes like RFM purchase behavior, product interests and channel preferences. > Identify and engage high value customer segments and lookalike audiences. > Identify and reengage inactive and lapsed customers. EFFORTLESS AND EFFECTIVE TARGETING > Quickly activate audience segments in your digital channels with as little as 3-clicks. > Combine or exclude auto-updated audiences for highly targeted campaigns that require less effort. MARKETER-FRIENDLY DASHBOARDS > Know how much every segment spends, on what products and when. > Understand where your sales are coming from and the impact of your marketing. > Identify growth opportunities in just a few clicks - no data science required. Lexer Engage is an easy-to-use customer service hub for communicating with your customers via social media and email. PERSONALIZED CUSTOMER CARE > Holistic view of each customer contains 1st party and social data > Fast, simple, and intuitive workflows > Centralized inbox > SLA & team reporting > Recommended responses
Board Observer
2015
ELOQUII is a vertically integrated e-commerce destination for contemporary, fast fashion sizes 14-28. We bring trend-driven, feminine, polished fashion from the runways to our customer, working on a compressed design cycle and dropping new styles every week. Eloquii is a member of the Fullbeauty Brands family!
Board Observer
2013
Conventus Orthopaedics, Inc. is an early-stage company focused on delivering a new standard of care for fracture treatment in the orthopaedic extremities market. Its proprietary Cage™ technology aims to improve patient outcomes, enhance the surgeon experience, and deliver economic value to stakeholders.
Experience · 22 entries
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2024
Principal
Mar 2024
We are Australia’s deep tech investment fund tackling the world’s biggest challenges by turning today’s scientific discoveries into tomorrow’s industries. Main Sequence works closely with scientists, researchers and industry collaborators to create, fund and accelerate new companies and industries that accelerate humanity for a more prosperous future. Main Sequence was set up in 2017 to manage the CSIRO Innovation Fund, founded by the Australian Government and the national science agency to reinvest its historic contributions into the successes of the future. Over the past four years, Main Sequence has invested in 39 companies changing the way healthcare is delivered, food is produced, spaces are connected and more. These investments have led to more than 60 company collaborative projects with universities and 19 projects with CSIRO.
2021
Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Sep 2021
The B2B venture capital firm that helps ANZ tech companies scale to the UK & USA, investing at the pre-Series A & Series A stages. Investors can join our syndicate to access the best tech ventures as they scale globally. We operate from Brisbane, Adelaide and the Gold Coast and invest in ventures from across Australia and New Zealand.
2020
Director New Ventures and Entrepreneurship
Mar 2020
The Australian National University is Australia’s only national university and home to some of the world’s leading educators and researchers. More than 3,800 staff drive research and learning excellence at the University. Through their effort, ANU is consistently ranked amongst the top 50 research universities in the world. The University is committed to attracting, developing and retaining outstanding people and offers flexible employment options for both academic and professional staff. ANU staff and students are part of a strong on-campus community. They work and study in a rich environment. The campus is like a small town on more than 147 hectares of parkland with plenty of shops and cafés, a medical centre and multiple sporting facilities. Discover more online. http://hr.anu.edu.au/employment-at-anu/job-opportunities
2019
Human VC
Managing Director
Jun 2019
Board Member
2019
The mission of Fivecast is to enable a safer world. Fivecast is a world-leading provider of digital intelligence solutions that enable the world’s most important public and private organizations to explore masses of data, uncovering actionable insights which are critical to protecting global communities.
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