Company Overview
Cowboy Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startups and early-stage investments. It seeks to invest in Fintech, digital and technology companies and in Life 2.0 products. The firm prefers to invest across the United States of America. Cowboy Ventures was founded in 2012 and is based in Menlo Park, California.
History
Cowboy Ventures was founded by Aileen Lee in 2012. Cowboy Ventures is a seed-stage focused fund that seeks to back exceptional founders who are building products that "re-imagine" work and personal life in large and growing markets.
Investments
Cowboy Ventures has made 96 investments. One of their investments was on Mar 20, 2019, when they invested $30M in Abstract. Cowboy Ventures has had 14 exits including Dollar Shave Club, August Home, and Product Hunt. Cowboy Ventures has raised a total of $190M across 3 funds, their latest being Cowboy Ventures Fund III. This fund was announced on Aug 6, 2018, and raised a total of $95M.
Timeline
Abstract
$30M.
Cowboy Ventures Fund III
$95M.
Associated investment funds
Palo Alto, California
Menlo Park, CaliforniaFunded Companies
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San Francisco
MemeboxA consumer company providing customers with the latest in Asian beauty products, culture and trends.
Beauty
Mobile commerce
Dollar Shave Club
Venice, Los Angeles
Seneca SystemsA company designing and developing constituent system-of-record and service request management software for local government
Open data
Redwood City, California
LibratoLibrato is a company founded by Fred van den Bosch.
Software
Cloud computing
LumaTaxLumaTax is a company founded by Robert Schulte.
NuORDER
Business-to-business
Tally
Financial services
Guild EducationGuild developed a tool for companies to offer tuition reimbursement and education as a benefit.
Education
Higher education
Denver
Hone (company)
Abstract (company)
Brit + Co
Digital media
NakedPoppy
Aura Health
Machine learning
LightStepPeople
Aileen Lee
Founder
Andy Johns
Advisor
Brandee Barker
Advisor
Chris Pouliot
Advisor
David Popowitz
Investor
Deborah Conrad
Advisor
Diego Berdakin
Investor
Ed Zimmerman
Investor
Eric Feng
Advisor
Hosain Rahman
Investor
Jennifer Nuckles
Advisor
Joanne Yuan
Employee
Lee Linden
Investor
Meg He
Employee
Mina Radhakrishnan
Advisor
Noah Lichtenstein
Employee
Paul Sethi
Investor
Suleman Ali
Investor
Tina Sharkey
Investor
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