We’re founders, we back founders, and we’re backed by world-class founders.
Fifty Years is an early stage VC firm based in San Francisco. We’re backed by 44 founders of tech companies valued between $1B and $100B who want to help the next generation of founders change the world for the better. We call them the League of Giants because 50Y founders can stand atop their shoulders.
Some of the teams we backed:
Small, low-cost telecommunications satellites to bring the internet to the entire world
Commercializing cell based meat
to move humanity to a new,
better food system
Decarbonizing the chemicals industry through enzymatic manufacturing
Creating machine learning-powered low-cost rapid blood diagnostics
Building a better future for news by simplifying the creation of paid publications
Accelerating the pace of science via affordable robots for biologists
We back world-class scientists.
Fifty Years helps founders translate breakthrough science to solve humanity’s greatest problems. Helping world-class scientists become world-class entrepreneurs is our jam. So far, we’ve backed 44 PhD founders and 22 PhD CEOs.
From 50Y founders:
Featured papers of 50Y founders:
“Like any venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, Fifty Years backs startups that it thinks will make massive amounts of money. But the firm, recently launched by two Y Combinator alumni, has a second requirement: Each of the entrepreneurs in its portfolio also has to have the potential to solve a major world problem.”
“Behind every success there is effort, behind the effort there is passion and behind the passion, there are people with the courage to try.”