Founding Partner at Fifty Years
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Seth Bannon invests or supports investments through Fifty Years's published strategy: Back scientist-founders using deep technology to solve major problems in climate, disease, connectivity and nutrition, then help translate research into enduring companies.
Describe the breakthrough, technical validation, path from lab to market, regulatory and scale risks, founder transformation and the magnitude of the problem solved.
Technical breakthroughs with evidence, large real-world impact and scientist-founders who are ready to become ambitious company builders.
No formal pass list is public. Conventional software without a deep-technology or major-impact dimension appears less aligned.