Fifty Years, a deep-tech investor, has raised $90 million from tens of "unicorn" founders

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Fifty Years, a deep-tech investor, has raised $90 million from tens of "unicorn" founders

Fifty Years, a six-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit with a portfolio that's already rife with mostly deep tech companies -- many with a good story to tell about how they can have an impact on the environment -- just closed its third and newest fund with $90 million in capital commitments. Firm cofounder Seth Bannon tells us the firm aimed to recruit founders of 20 so-called unicorn companies so that they would have a vested interest in -- a…