Scientist to Founder: Building the UK's Next Wave of Deep Tech Startups

​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?

​Whether you're curious about entrepreneurship or ready to commercialize your research, join us to hear from Seth Bannon, Founding Partners at Fifty Years, about what he's learnt helping hundreds of scientists translate breakthrough science into deep tech startups.

​Fifty Years is a leading Silicon Valley VC firm that has backed over 100 deep tech companies, helped them raise over $4.6B, and has published the Spinout Playbook, the ultimate guide to spin out of academia.

​We've distilled everything we know about deep tech entrepreneurship into 5050, a free, 16-week program to help great scientists and engineers become great founders. 5050 is coming to the UK to equip scientists and engineers to start and build the next decade of civilization-defining companies. We’ll dive into how to identify civilization-scale problems to tackle, develop essential entrepreneurship skills (from hiring to fundraising to negotiating IP), and grow into a great founder.

We'll have food and drinks!

​​5050 UK is powered through our partnership with the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)

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Seth Bannon is a Founding Partner at Fifty Years. He has seeded a range of startups shaping the world for the better — companies like Solugen (engineering enzymes to produce industrial chemicals sustainably), Astranis (small satellites to cover the Earth in Internet), Upside Foods (culturing meat to eat), Athelas (next generation healthcare OS), and Opentrons (affordable lab robots). After dropping out of college to found his startup, Amicus, Seth "graduated' from Y Combinator. Helping great scientists & engineers become entrepreneurs is his jam.