
Fifty Years: A San Francisco-based VC firm, funding tech solutions for global issues, targeting sustainable profitability.
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Partner at Fifty Years. Caltech PhD in Environmental Science. Entrepreneur. Startup operations and R&D pro.
Partner at Fifty Years. Former founder and CEO of Vicarious AI. Raised $250M, acquired by Alphabet. Investor/Advisor to many unicorns.
Head of Platform and Product at Fifty Years. Entrepreneur, product leader, and community builder. Startup PM & investor. Burning Man camp lead.
Founding Partner at Fifty Years. Serial entrepreneur and investor. Y Combinator alum.
Fifty Years backs the indispensable and uses technology to address problems.
Fifty Years supports civilizationary founders. Its privacy policy explains how it collects, uses, and protects personal data under global data protection laws, including the EU and UK GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.
Anthropic acquires Vercept, a startup developing computer-use AI agents, and brings co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick onto its team. Vercept’s Vy product operated a remote Apple MacBook in the cloud, and the company is shutting it down on March 25. CEO Kiana Ehsani says Vercept raised $50 million; deal terms are undisclosed, and co-founders Matt Deitke and Oren Etzioni do not join Anthropic.
Feb 2026 · TechCrunchNews article
Onepot AI raises $13 million to accelerate small-molecule synthesis for biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Its POT-1 lab and Phil, an AI organic chemist, synthesize customer-selected compounds and use detailed experimental data to train agents on which chemical reactions work. The company emerges from stealth with funding led by Fifty Years and plans a second San Francisco lab, team growth, and expansion of its compound discovery engine.
Nov 2025 · TechCrunchNews article
Toyota commits $1.5 billion in new capital to invest across the startup lifecycle, from early inventions through growth and maturity. It establishes Toyota Invention Partners, a strategic investment subsidiary with about $670 million in capital, while Woven Capital launches a second $800 million fund. Woven Capital general partner George Kellerman describes the new subsidiary as a bookend to Toyota’s other investment organizations.
Oct 2025 · TechCrunchNews article
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