Wildcard: Interview with Steel Sky Ventures' Maria Velissaris and Buffy Alegria

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Today, Kristine Harjes of Motley Fool Ventures hosts our Wildcard Wednesday episode. She interviews Maria Velissaris and Buffy Alegria, Managing Partners of Steel Sky Ventures. They discuss the origins of Steel Sky Ventures, investing across the spectrum of women's health indications and in technology infrastructure that supports new and innovative care delivery models.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.
0:11.0	I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today
0:16.0	we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. Wild Card Wednesday.
0:20.4	And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in.
0:27.3	It is Wednesday, March 10th, and we're talking health care. Industry focus alum, Christine Harjus, here neglecting my
0:33.9	regular duties with TMF's venture fund to guest host this interview with Maria
0:38.9	Villasaurus and Buffy Allegria of Steel Sky Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in the future of women's health care.
0:46.0	Maria Buffy, I am so glad to have you both here.
0:50.0	How are you? Great.
0:52.0	Doing well.
0:53.0	Thank you for having us.
0:55.0	Awesome.
0:56.0	If you could get us started and just tell us a little bit about yourselves and your backgrounds.
1:00.0	Sure.
1:01.0	My name is Maria Vellisseris. I'm the founding partner of Steel Sky Ventures and we invest in companies that create better access, care, or outcomes in women's health care. So my background, SARS as an entrepreneur,
1:14.2	started my first company out of college.
1:16.5	It was a shipping and storage company
1:18.1	with a friend from Duke.
1:19.7	We combined forces and grew the company
1:21.6	to be the largest college shipping and storage company in the nation.
1:25.5	And subsequently that company was bought by U-Haul, and they still run it 20 years later.
1:31.7	So that was my first foray as an entrepreneur, then spent the next 15 years of my
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