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    Cowboy Ventures

    Palo Alto, California, United StatesFounded 2012

    Cowboy Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that primarily invests in US-based, software-oriented technology companies, often leading or co-leading initial rounds. The firm is largely sector-agnostic but focuses on identifying underserved markets and aims to be a deeply involved, trusted partner to founders, providing strategic support beyond capital.

    Average disclosed round size is $27.9M (across 48 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    54

    Fund Size

    $260M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    1

    Team

    Aileen Lee

    Aileen Lee

    Physical AI Fellow

    CD

    Caroline Duffy

    Operating Partner

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    54 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    CrunchBase logoCrunchBaseSeries C$30MNov 2025
    Uplimit logoUplimitSeries A$11MJul 2024
    Homebase logoHomebaseSeries D$60MApr 2024
    Vic.ai logoVic.aiSeries C$52MDec 2022
    Drata logoDrataSeries C$200MDec 2022
    TTally Technologies Inc.Series D$80MOct 2022
    LaunchNotes logoLaunchNotesSeries A$15MJun 2022
    Mutiny logoMutinySeries C$50MApr 2022
    Arcol logoArcolSeed$3.6MMar 2022
    The Landing logoThe LandingSeed$3MDec 2021
    Contra logoContraSeries B$30MNov 2021
    Byteboard logoByteboardUnknownOct 2021
    Vic.ai logoVic.aiSeries B$50MSep 2021
    Homebase logoHomebaseSeries C$71MJul 2021
    Drata logoDrataSeries A$25MJun 2021
    Guild Education logoGuild EducationSeries E$150MJun 2021
    NNewnessSeed$3.5MFeb 2021
    Drata logoDrataSeed$3.2MJan 2021
    Effx logoEffxSeed$3.9MJul 2020
    ChartHop logoChartHopSeed$5MFeb 2020
    CrunchBase logoCrunchBaseSeries C$30MOct 2019
    Mon Ami logoMon AmiSeed$3.4MOct 2019
    Passbase logoPassbaseSeed$3.6MSep 2019
    NakedPoppy logoNakedPoppySeed$4MJul 2019
    Tally logoTallySeries C$50MJun 2019
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    Last updated: 10 April 2026