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.
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.
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.
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$30M.
$95M.
Funded Companies
Mixhalo is a technology company that has created a closed wifi network capable of transmitting audio in near real-time from a sound source to an app on a smartphone. It was founded in 2016 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Dollar Shave Club offers a monthly membership service that delivers stainless steel razor blades and other personal grooming products to customers by mail.
A consumer company providing customers with the latest in Asian beauty products, culture and trends.
A company offering an online platform for discovering information related to private and public businesses.
Tally Technologies is a San Francisco-based financial services company.
A health, wellness, & fitness company offering a suite of female fertility products.
Brandless is a San Francisco-based company founded by Tina Sharkey.
Area 1 Security is a Redwood City, California-based cybersecurity company developing protection for businesses against phishing attacks.
A company designing and developing constituent system-of-record and service request management software for local government
Guild developed a tool for companies to offer tuition reimbursement and education as a benefit.
ChartHop is a company based in New York providing organizational chart software. It was founded in 2018.
Hone is a New York-based company founded by Tom Griffiths, Savina Perez and Jeremy Hamel.
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People
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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