Ela Madej is a serial tech entrepreneur and a Y Combinator alum.

Serial entrepreneur and investor.  Y Combinator alum. She dreams big and laughs a lot.

Ela started her first company, Applicake, at the age of 21. It was a Ruby on Rails, and later iOS/Android development shop based in Kraków, Poland. Ela later co-founded Base (acquired by Zendesk) and organized large events for software developers in Europe.

She went through Y Combinator in the summer of 2012 and, soon after, permanently moved to the U.S. in 2014. While living in NYC, she became a Partner at a Polish VC fund, Innovation Nest.

In 2015, together with a fellow YCS12 alum, Seth, she co-founded Fifty Years, moved to San Francisco, and she hasn’t looked back since!

When she's not talking to incredible entrepreneurs or helping portfolio companies, you'll find Ela dancing, slack-lining, skiing, or creating large-scale art.

Twitter: @elamadej →
LinkedIn:
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