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Fifty Years

Founders Ela Madej Seth Bannon

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Total investments 160
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$21M
Portfolio companies 79
Rounds per year 17.78
Lead investments 13
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Care
  • Medical
  • Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aalo Atomics

Energy
Nuclear
$27M14 Aug 2024 -

Waypoint Bio

$14M28 Jun 2024 New York, New York, United States

Molten Industries

Advanced Materials
Chemical
CleanTech
$25M20 Jun 2024 Oakland, California, United States

Nabla Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
$26M14 May 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cosmic Aerospace

$4M06 Feb 2024 -

Faction

Autonomous Vehicles
Logistics
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$6M26 Oct 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Elicit

Artificial Intelligence
Data Center Automation
Database
Information Technology
$9M25 Sep 2023 Oakland, California, United States

BIOS

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Health Care
Human Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Medical
Medical Device
$20M22 Jun 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Gridware

Energy
Predictive Analytics
$10M13 Jun 2023 Sacramento, California, United States
News
Nobell Foods Scores $75M Series B Round

– Nobell Foods has secured a $75m Series B financing round.
– The round was backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
– Others joining this round include: Unovis, Germin8 Ventures, Fifty Years, AgFunder, Pear VC, GL Ventures, the venture capital arm of Hillhouse Group, and Mission Bay Capital.
– The company plans to launch its cheeses to the public by the end of next year.

Faction Raises $4.3M Seed Round

– Faction Technology from Silicon Valley is a startup that develops driverless solutions based on light electric vehicles.
– The company announced the completion of $4.3m in seed funding led by Trucks Venture Capital and Fifty Years.

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Total investments 160
Average round size 21M
Rounds per year 17.78
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aalo Atomics

Energy
Nuclear
$27M14 Aug 2024 -

Waypoint Bio

$14M28 Jun 2024 New York, New York, United States

Molten Industries

Advanced Materials
Chemical
CleanTech
$25M20 Jun 2024 Oakland, California, United States

Nabla Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
$26M14 May 2024 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cosmic Aerospace

$4M06 Feb 2024 -

Faction

Autonomous Vehicles
Logistics
Ride Sharing
Transportation
$6M26 Oct 2023 South San Francisco, California, United States

Elicit

Artificial Intelligence
Data Center Automation
Database
Information Technology
$9M25 Sep 2023 Oakland, California, United States

BIOS

Artificial Intelligence
Bioinformatics
Health Care
Human Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Medical
Medical Device
$20M22 Jun 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Gridware

Energy
Predictive Analytics
$10M13 Jun 2023 Sacramento, California, United States
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