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

​​Fifty Years and Cambridge Gravity are partnering to host an afternoon session on 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.

​​​​​In this workshop, you'll get a taste of 5050. 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.

​​​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 are open!

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​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.

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.