Investors & Partners at Fifty Years

Ela Madej

Co-Founder and Partner, Fifty Years

Ela Madej is a Polish-born serial entrepreneur who founded multiple companies starting at age 21 before becoming a venture investor, giving her a founder's perspective when working with technical teams building global businesses from Central and Eastern Europe. She focuses specifically on deep tech companies that use frontier technologies like synthetic biology and biocomputing to advance UN Sustainable Development Goals, positioning herself as an early believer who helps scientists translate research into scalable businesses that tackle problems like feeding 10 billion people and decarbonizing industry.