Seth Bannon, one of the founding partners of US VC Fifty Years, which is bringing its deeptech company builder 5050 to the UK with research agency ARIA.

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February 5, 2025

The deeptech company builder with a ‘flavour of YC’ coming to the UK

US VC Fifty Years is bringing its company builder to the UK with funding from innovation agency ARIA — and it wants hundreds of scientists through its doors

Tom Nugent

8 min read

British brains have invented a lot of things over the years — penicillin, DNA’s double helix and the World Wide Web — but they haven’t always been so good at turning those discoveries into moneymakers. 

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One of the participants in 5050's deeptech company builder doing an ice bath.
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