Operations

Company Description

Fifty Years is a pre-seed and seed venture capital firm backing founders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. We’ve helped build companies turning CO₂ into jet fuel, reprogramming cells to cure disease, and reinventing the materials we wear and eat.

In the UK, we run 5050, a venture-building programme helping scientists and engineers become founders. We run two cohorts each year, powered by ARIA, to support PhD students, postdocs, and industry engineers to build civilizationally important companies. We’re a small, high-energy team working across London, San Francisco, and Poland. We’ve all built things ourselves and now pour our energy into enabling the next generation of founders to build our Star Trek future.

The Role

Over the next two years, we want to scale 5050: grow our UK cohorts, bring in most of the UK’s top scientists and engineers, build tools to run it better, and p...