Fundraising Fox

Aileen Lee

Founder & Managing Partner at Cowboy Ventures

Palo Alto, CA

Midas 2020 · #80

About

Aileen Lee founded the seed-stage firm Cowboy Ventures in 2012 after more than a decade at Kleiner Perkins. She coined the term 'unicorn' for billion-dollar startups in a 2013 essay and co-founded All Raise, the nonprofit working to advance women in venture capital.

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Aileen Lee

E988 Cowboy Ventures' Aileen Lee on pioneering diversity in tech & VC, lessons from backing winners - YouTube

This Week in Startups

Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) & Emily Chang (Bloomberg) - Ten Years of Unicorns: What's next? - YouTube

Startup Grind

4 Lessons from Aileen Lee @ Cowboy Ventures - YouTube

ConfluenceVC: The VC Operating Playbook

The Unicorn Club 10 years later with Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee | Equity Podcast - YouTube

TechCrunch

Colleagues at Cowboy Ventures

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