Seth Bannon

Founding Partner at Fifty Years Industries

Speaker

Seth Bannon is a Founding Partner at Fifty Years, a pre-seed and seed venture firm backing deep tech founders building breakthrough companies across energy, manufacturing, biology, infrastructure, and AI. Fifty Years focuses on identifying technically exceptional founders early and supporting them from company formation through scale.

Seth has seeded a range of category-defining companies including Solugen, Astranis, BillionToOne, Aalo, and Varda.

Seth and Fifty Years run 5050, the leading program helping PhDs and researchers start companies, and published the Spinout Playbook, a widely used guide to commercializing research from academia.

Before venture capital, Seth worked on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and founded a startup after leaving college. He was twice named to Forbes 30 Under 30.