Number of Portfolio Companies 1
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
  • Primary Job Title Founding Partner
  • Primary Organization 
    Fifty Years
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Seth Bannon is a Founding Partner at Fifty Years, a San Francisco based seed fund that backs entrepreneurs solving the world’s biggest problems with technology. Seth has seeded many sustainability startups shaping the world for the better — companies like Memphis Meats (culturing meat to eat), Solugen (engineering enzymes to produce industrial

chemicals sustainably), Geltor (recombinantly making collagen and gelatin), and Cover (building homes like Tesla builds cars) to companies in sustainable food, transportation, and finance.

Seth is also the co-founder of impact.tech, a community of entrepreneurs combining purpose with profit, and was previously the founder & CEO of startup Amicus. A graduate of Y Combinator, Seth was named twice to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurship.

Seth can occasionally be found in parks around the world attempting to hustle chess hustlers.

Number of Investments 1
Seth Bannon invested in Flux on Oct 13, 2021. This investment - Seed Round - Flux - was valued at
$12M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Oct 13, 2021
Flux
Seed Round - Flux
$12M
Number of Partner Investments 11
Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 2
Seth Bannon has 2 current jobs as Founding Partner at Fifty Years and Co-founder at Impact.tech. Additionally, Seth Bannon has had 2 past jobs including Founder and CEO at Amicus.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Amicus
Founder and CEO20112017
Organizing for Action
OrganizerJul 2008Nov 2008
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Seth Bannon is the Board Member at Solugen.