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Fifty Years

Venture capital firm · Founded 2018 · Active in 2026

Fifty Years is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2018. The page below shows 9 Power Law outcomes from Fifty Years's portfolio — 9 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · Space · Food; top portfolio geographies are USA. Fifty Years ranks #179 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

9 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #179 · Global · 9 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
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01 · Exits

Fifty Years’ biggest exits.

Fifty Years portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$4.0B IPO · 2025
Entered SeedNow $3.6B
02 · Estimated holdings

Fifty Years’ selected top holdings.

An estimate of Fifty Years’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Fifty Years is a named shareholder, worth about $184M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 SolugenChemicals · Unicorn 7% $2.0B $140M
  2. 2 SubstackMedia · Unicorn 4% $1.1B $44M

Estimated value = Fifty Years’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 9 Fifty Years Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA9
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences3
  2. Space2
  3. Food1
  4. Fintech1
  5. Other1
  6. Other B2B Software1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A1
  2. Seed8
04 · Portfolio market map

Fifty Years's 9 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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9 of 9 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Fifty Years stack up?

Fifty Years in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Fifty Years's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

14 founders across the 9 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Kik are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States5
Germany4
New Zealand3
Japan1
Canada1
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UniversityCount
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg3
University of Otago2
University of Waterloo2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
Western University1
Stanford University1
Caltech1
Harvard University1
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Origin companyCount
Kik3
Microsoft2
SpaceX | xAI2
Tools for Humanity2
Zeus Living1
devsisters1
OpenAI1
SAP1
Planet Labs1
Wave Mobile Money1
+12 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Fifty Years.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Fifty Years

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Fifty Years on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Fifty Years

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Fifty Years — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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