“A cheat code for starting a deep tech startup.”

5050 applications are open.

We love scientists,
engineers, hackers

Fifty Years is a pre-seed and seed focused VC firm. We back founders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. We also help start companies.

50Y founders are building massive businesses while solving the world’s most important problems: the climate crisis, disease, connectivity, malnutrition, and more.

Read our Substack to learn more, follow us on X (Twitter), or learn about our initiatives below.

We’re founders all the way down

Fifty Years is backed by 46 founders of $1B+ tech companies who want to help the next generation of founders change the world for the better. They are the giants whose shoulders 50Y founders can stand on.

We’re founders. We back founders. We’re backed by founders. Companies started by our investors include:

We help world-class scientists become world-class entrepreneurs.

Fifty Years helps founders translate breakthrough science to solve humanity’s greatest problems. So far, we’ve backed 72 PhD founders and 33 PhD CEOs.

From 50Y founders: 

4,104 papers

355,320 citations

Let’s use capitalism as a force for good.

Our initiatives:

“Behind every success there is effort, behind the effort there is passion and behind the passion, there are people with the courage to try.”

– Arthur B. McDonald,
Nobel Prize in Physics