Fifty Years is a pre-seed and seed-stage deep-tech venture capital firm that backs founders using technology to address major global problems, co-founded by Ela Madej and Seth Bannon as Founding Partners. Fifty Years's Twitter Score is 39 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #24,405 (top 5%) among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Fifty Years focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in science and deep-tech, with a portfolio spanning climate, disease, connectivity, and malnutrition. The firm is also affiliated with 5050. Beyond backing existing companies, Fifty Years actively helps start new ones, working with scientists and engineers making the transition to entrepreneurship.
Fifty Years has backed a notable number of PhD founders and PhD CEOs across its portfolio. Among its crypto-relevant holdings, the firm has invested in a company providing transparency and security to smart contract projects, a project building decentralized global identity and universal basic income infrastructure, and a platform serving as an operating system for DAOs. Fifty Years's portfolio includes Varda Space Industries, Zero Acre Farms, Elicit, Astranis Space Technologies, Solugen, LatchBio, Merge Labs and Adaption.
Fifty Years has published 3,034 posts on the platform. Fifty Years has been mentioned by 67 accounts, with 251 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Fifty Years include 234 founders, 75 angel investors, 25 influencers and 10 VCs, among them Anthony Pompliano, Loomdart, Matthew Graham, Andrew Chen, Consensys.eth and Martin Shkreli.