Alex Teng
Partner at Fifty Years
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlex Teng is a scientist-turned-operator with nine years of experience building climate and health-focused technologies and scaling mission-driven ventures from lab prototypes to market. As Partner at Fifty Years, he blends scientific first principles, curiosity, and cross-functional hustle to back founders tackling the world's biggest problems, having previously served as the firm's Chief of Staff. His technical roots include a Caltech PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering and hands-on roles developing aerosol instrumentation, in-nose air filters, and net-zero vehicle technologies at companies like Divergent 3D and AVA. Alex is comfortable translating complex environmental science into product and strategy, and he brings program management chops for core technology development. He’s known for a playful, relentless problem-solving style—equally likely to chase hurricanes with NASA as to obsess over the perfect coffee brew during field campaigns. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines academic rigor with startup grit to find practical levers for outsized impact.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyCalifornia Institute of Technology
English, ChineseGithub contributions (1)
kjchalup/recurrent_portfolio
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:78 commits in 8 days
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