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Portfolio 91
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 14.06.2023 | Gridware | gridware.io | $97.2M | United Sta... |
| 26.05.2023 | Cosmic Aer... | cosmicaerospace.com | $4.5M | United Sta... |
| 14.04.2023 | Aalo | aalo.com | $106.26M | United Sta... |
| 12.01.2023 | Tangible | tangiblematerials.com | - | United Sta... |
| 12.11.2022 | Multiomic ... | multiomic.health | $8.83M | United Kin... |
| 08.11.2022 | Avro Life ... | avrolifesci.com | $2.2M | - |
| 26.10.2022 | Universe E... | universeenergy.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 06.10.2022 | Molten Ind... | moltenindustries.com | $25M | United Sta... |
| 29.09.2022 | WorkEQ (fo... | workeq.com | - | United Sta... |
| 16.08.2022 | Planet A F... | planet-a-foods.com | $45.4M | Germany |
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Mentions in press and media 24
| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.09.2026 | Wafer Raises $40M in Series A Funding | Wafer, a San Francisco, CA-based artificial intelligence inference chip and hardware infrastructure startup, raised $40m in Series A funding. The round was led by Marathon and Chemistry, with participation from Wing Venture Capital, AMD Ven... |
| 14.05.2025 | Vellos – a company founded by Milner Institute Director Sir Tony Kouzarides – announces partnership with Fifty Years, a renowned pre-seed and seed focused VC firm | Vellos has announced a new partnership with Fifty Years. The partnership will support and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs across the UK’s deep tech and life sciences sectors. Vellos – a company founded by Professor Sir Tony Kou... |
| 07.04.2025 | Agrifoodtech VC: Trade war will ‘make food security an urgent priority’ | As markets roil amid a trade war triggered by President Trump, agrifoodtech investors say portfolio companies should reassess their business models, with some better placed than others to weather the storm as issues such as food security mo... |
| 14.06.2023 | Gridware Raises $10.5 Million to Improve Grid Reliability Nationwide | Gridware announced it has raised $10.5 million in a seed extension funding round led by Fifty Years and Lowercarbon Capital. This funding allows Gridware to continue to empower utilities to rapidly improve their reliability and wildfire mit... |
| 16.05.2023 | Tangible wants to scale up construction decarbonization | The real estate industry is a bit of a greenhouse gas powerhouse, responsible for 40% of all global emissions. A quarter of that comes from building materials, and Tangible has had enough. The company is building a tool for finding, managin... |
| 05.05.2023 | UK’s MultiOmic Health secures €5.7M for its AI-enabled precision drug discovery platform | London-based Multiomic Health, a company building an AI-enabled precision therapeutics discovery platform for metabolic syndrome diseases, announced on Thursday, May 4, that it has secured £5M (approximately €5.71M) in a Seed extension roun... |
| 01.12.2022 | Boundary Layer pivots from container ships to hydrofoiling personal watercraft | Boundary Layer, which was gunning for local air freight, and announced a slew of launch partners earlier this year, today announced a shift in strategy, with some high-performance foiling personal watercraft. Think low-flying SeaDoo, and yo... |
| 01.06.2022 | Boundary Layer wants to steal air freight’s lunch and transport it by water instead | If you’ve ever spent time writing beat poetry about container ships chugging their way into and out of harbors, “nimble” or “fast” will be unlikely to make it into your finely crafted written words. And if your (admittedly increasingly esot... |
| 08.03.2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166 1 167 Shares 16 Mins Read The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| 10.01.2022 | Early-stage VC Fifty Years leads $1.1m HealthLeap pre-seed | South African healthtech start-up HealthLeap closed a successful $1.1 million pre-seed funding round led by deep tech investor Fifty Years. The firm is renowned for investing in health and nutrition technologies which is in line with the Nu... |
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