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Seth Bannon

Disciplines:
entrepreneurship
ai
venture capital

Summary

Founder of Fifty Years — a venture fund focused on deep tech companies solving major human problems — and serial entrepreneur.

Core Contribution

Fifty Years as mission-driven deep tech VC: Bannon built a fund explicitly targeting deep tech (biotech, climate, AI for social good) with a thesis that the biggest financial returns and the biggest social returns are the same investments. Represents the 'effective altruism meets venture capital' approach to deployment of capital.

Historical Influences

Effective Altruism movement Peter Thiel

Intellectual Lineage

Silicon Valley VC Impact Investing

Contemporaries & Peers

Breakthrough Energy VenturesObvious Ventures

Minds Influenced

Impact Tech VC

Intellectual Posterity

Deep Tech VC

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