Fifty Years
Venture Capital
Active
San Francisco, United States
157
21M
78
17.44
13
0.48
3
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
Fifty Years is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.
This organization was formed by Ela Madej, Seth Bannon. The overall number of key employees were 2.
The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Solugen, Quantstamp, EARTH AI. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Transportation, Advanced Materials. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Fifty Years, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, SOSV, IndieBio. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wei Guo, Refactor Capital, SOSV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SOSV, Refactor Capital, Data Collective DCVC.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- USD 90000000
- Fund raised date
- 2021-10-27
Analytics
- Total investments
- 157
- Lead investments
- 13
- Exits
- 3
- Rounds per year
- 17.44
- Follow on index
- 0.48
- Investments by industry
- Biotechnology (61)
- Health Care (47)
- Manufacturing (20)
- Life Science (20)
- Artificial Intelligence (20) Show 86 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (129)
- Germany (4)
- United Kingdom (8)
- Canada (3)
- Senegal (2) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 4
- Number of Decacorns
- 4
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 5
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 129M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.92
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Avg. multiplicator
- 0.20
- Strategy success index
- 0.40
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Latest deals
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| Molten Industries | 20 Jun 2024 | CleanTech, Chemical, Advanced Materials | Early Stage Venture | 25M | United States, California, Oakland |
| Worldcoin | 21 Oct 2021 | Cryptocurrency | Early Stage Venture | 25M | Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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