# Ela Madej

> Ela Madej is a seed investor at Fifty Years backing Health Care and Food and Beverage. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fifty Years](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifty-years)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/elamadej
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/elamadej
- Website: http://elamadej.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/elamadej

Ela Madej is a seed investor at Fifty Years in San Francisco focused on Health Care and Food and Beverage. Ela Madej is the Founding Partner of Fifty Years. She previously worked at Rebellyous Foods as a Board Member. Ela Madej attended the University of Birmingham.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 2 | 33% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 33% |
| Web3 | 1 | 17% |
| Beauty | 1 | 17% |
| Medical | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 67% |
| Australia | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Journey Clinical | Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care. | $8.5M | Series A | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Privy | Privy creates authentication, authorization, and data control tooling to enable developers to create products that keep users safe. It creates simple, powerful APIs for managing user data, allowing them to easily integrate user data into their products. Privy bridges the gap between users' on-chain activity and their off-chain data, allowingusers to create delightful experiences without putting themselves or the product at risk. | $8.3M | Seed | Apr 20, 2022 |  |
| Journey Clinical | Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care. | $3M | Seed | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Mindset Health | Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy. | $6.5M | Seed | Jun 28, 2021 |  |
| Rebellyous Foods | Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production company defined solely to catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat. Rebellyous Foods implements food manufacturing equipment and processes in large-scale production to produce low-cost plant-based meat at high volumes. These goals are achievedthrough uniquely designed food products, the use of high-throughput manufacturing automation and ‘smart’ production centers, and the development and utilization of new innovative low-energy manufacturing tools.Rebellyous Foods was established in 2017 in Seattle, Washington. | $6M | Series A | Apr 13, 2020 |  |
| Geltor | Biodesigned proteins for beauty, wellness and beyond. | $4.5M | Seed | Feb 01, 2016 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Audrey Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/audrey-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Palo Santo Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/palo-santo-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PsyMed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/psychedelic-medicine-syndicate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Able Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/able-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archetype](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrylic-b04d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Fifty Years

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Fifty Years is a venture capital firm that backs founders using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.Entrepreneur-run and based in San Francisco, Fifty Years invests in companies that inspire. Specifically, they fund companies that, if successful, will be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one ormore of the Sustainable Development Goals.

5 contacts available at Fifty Years.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ela Madej | Co-founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ela-madej |
| Seth Bannon | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seth-bannon |
| Chris Waclawek | Impact Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-waclawek |
| Drew Moxon | Head of Platform and Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-moxon |
| Peregrine Badger | Instigator | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peregrine-badger |

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## FAQ

### What does Ela Madej invest in?

Ela Madej invests primarily in Health Care, Food and Beverage and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ela Madej last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ela Madej closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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