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Cowboy Ventures stages, portfolio and investment profile
Palo Alto and New York seed fund founded in 2012 by Aileen Lee, who coined the term 'unicorn.' Purpose-built for pre-seed and seed—Cowboy says roughly 70% of its investments are pre-product—and known for hands-on support through seed-to-Series A.
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Stage-based planning range
$250K–$3M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Pre-Seed, Seed
Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Sector focus
consumer
Geography
New York, NY & Palo Alto, CA
Founded 2012
Fund size / AUM
Not recorded
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
7
Linked startup profiles
Recent tracked investment
Not recorded
No dated round explicitly links this fund.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Related reading
Recent investments, portfolio developments and our research on this investor.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Cowboy Ventures as an investor (7 total).
- Basata Specialty-specific AI agents automating healthcare admin — referrals, intake, scheduling, and follow-up.
- Branch Mobile deep-linking and attribution infrastructure (Branch.io).
- ChartHop People analytics platform with dynamic org charts, headcount planning, and HR data visualization.
- Eisen AI-enabled compliance ops infrastructure for escheatment, disbursement, and 1099 reporting.
- Petual Agentic AI platform automating internal audit and SOX compliance testing.
- Product Hunt Daily community leaderboard where makers launch and discover new tech products.
- Tally Automated credit-card debt payoff app (shut down August 2024).
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