Scientist to Founder: Building the UK's Next Wave of Deep Tech Startups
Fifty Years and Cambridge Gravity are partnering to host an afternoon diving into the scientist-to-founder journey.
If you're wondering: How do I turn my breakthrough science into a startup? Am I addressing a problem with a large enough market? How do I recruit a team? Am I the right person to do it?
Join us to hear Alex Teng, Partner at Fifty Years, share insights from helping hundreds of scientists translate breakthrough science into deep tech startups.
Fifty Years is an early-stage VC firm. At 50Y, we’ve built deep tech companies ourselves and published the Spinout Playbook, the ultimate guide to spin out of academia. We've backed over 100 deep tech startups and helped them raise over $4.6B.
We've distilled everything we know about deep tech entrepreneurship into 5050, a free, 16-week programme to help great scientists and engineers become great founders. We’re excited to bring 5050 to the UK in partnership with the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). Applications open this week!
In this workshop, we'll dive into how to identify civilization-scale problems to tackle, break down ideas into fundable milestones, develop essential entrepreneurship skills (from hiring to fundraising to negotiating IP), and grow into a great founder.
You’ll get a taste of how 5050 will equip scientists and engineers in the UK to build the next decade of civilization-defining companies. Whether you're validating an idea or exploring whether entrepreneurship is right for you, see you in Cambridge!
Cambridge Gravity exists to enable researchers to explore industry and entrepreneurship.
Gravity supports programmes that allow exploration of industry and entrepreneurship while undertaking research at the University of Cambridge. We provide entrepreneurial mentorship, interaction with industry partners and networking opportunities designed to give a “learn by example” experience.
We'll have food and drinks!
About ARIA
ARIA is an R&D funding agency created to unlock technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. Created by an Act of Parliament, and sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, ARIA funds teams of scientists and engineers to pursue research at the edge of what is scientifically and technologically possible.