Fifty Years
fiftyyears.com Direct investor
Fifty Years is a pre-seed and seed focused venture capital firm that invests in founders using technology to solve major global problems, with a focus on deep tech and science-based startups. They also help start companies and support founders with initiatives like the Spinout Playbook and Manifest Grants.
Fifty Years is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in deep tech, climate, healthcare and biotech.
“We back founders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems.”
— Fifty Years, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sectors
- deep tech, climate, healthcare, biotech, AI, energy, food, manufacturing
Team, as Fifty Years publishes it
- Ela Madej Founding Partner
- Seth Bannon Founding Partner
- D. Scott Phoenix Partner
- Alex Teng, PhD Partner
- Drew Moxon Head of Platform and Product
- Ale Borda Head of 50 50
- Kia Fathi Head of Engineering
- Ueli Friedli Head of Finance
- Kasia Bojanowska Designer
- Steph Avraamides UK Lead
- Vaitea Cowan UK Lead
Names and roles exactly as listed on fiftyyears.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Fifty Years publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://fiftyyears.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://fiftyyears.com/teampeople
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Record 1120 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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