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Cowboy Ventures

Venture capital

Founded 2012 · Palo Alto, United States

#385 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 2% of investors worldwide
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94 Portfolio companies+15% in 5 years
4 Unicorns
159 Investments
May 2026 Last investment
01 · Knowledge graph
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02 · Biggest holdings

Cowboy Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Cowboy Ventures still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has a disclosed stake for Cowboy Ventures in only 3 companies, too few to estimate what the portfolio is worth, so stake sizes aren’t shown.

#CompanyValuation
  1. 1 Guild EducationUnicorn · Education · USA $4.4B
  2. 2 BranchUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $4.0B
  3. 3 DrataUnicorn · Security · USA $2.0B

Unicorns and thoroughbreds Cowboy Ventures has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Portfolio analysis

Where Cowboy Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 84 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA90
  2. Canada1
  3. Germany1
  4. Nigeria1
  5. Norway1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software21
  2. Fintech12
  3. Media11
  4. Marketing10
  5. Wellness Beauty8
  6. Education7
  7. Home Living7
  8. Telecom6
  9. Health5
  10. Jobs Recruitment5
  11. Security4
  12. Food3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed60
  2. Series A19
  3. Series B+4
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage42
  2. Early Growth40
  3. Late Growth12
04 · Portfolio market map

Inside Cowboy Ventures’ portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 84 tracked.

Branch
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$4.0B
Guild Education
Education · Unicorn
$4.4B
Brandless
Wellness Beauty
$236M
Drata
Security · Unicorn
$2.0B
Kiavi
Fintech
$717M
Dollar Shave Club
Wellness Beauty · Unicorn
$1.0B
Memebox
Wellness Beauty
$175M
Homebase
Jobs Recruitment
$550M
Tally Technologies
Fintech
Vic.ai
Fintech
$208M
Crunchbase
Enterprise Software
$200M
Area 1 Security
Security
$162M
NuORDER
Enterprise Software
$425M
Drop
Consumer Electronics
$160M
Philz Coffee
Food
$145M
ChartHop
Jobs Recruitment
$175M
August Home
Home Living
$100M
Drop
Fintech
$176M
Mutiny
Marketing
$200M
LightStep
Enterprise Software
$164M
Fresco
Food
$100M
Aviso, Inc.
Marketing
$32M
Hone
Education
$120M
Abstract
Enterprise Software
$120M
Contra
Enterprise Software
$120M
Textio
Education
$80M
Brit + Co
Media
$60M
Fullcast
Jobs Recruitment
$136M
StyleSeat
Wellness Beauty
$100M
Accompany
Telecom
$270M
Mixhalo
Music
$96M
Tenor
Media
$68M
LaunchNotes
Telecom
$60M
SVT Robotics
Robotics
$100M
Branch
Telecom
$8.0M
Basata
Health
$84M
Nearby
USA
$84M
Standard Kernel
Semiconductors
$80M
Petual
Enterprise Software
$80M
Getsetup
Education
$40M
nWay
Gaming
$7.7M
Uplimit
Education
$44M
Eisen
Fintech
$40M
Planet FWD
Enterprise Software
$40M
After School
Telecom
$66M
Spruce Health
Health
$60M
DocSend
Marketing
$165M
Palla
Fintech
$58M
GroundMetrics
Energy
$30M
Passbase
Security
$40M
Brava Home
USA
$48M
LumaTax
Legal
$16M
Aura Health
Health
$25M
Mon Ami
Health
$13M
Brickwork
Media
$20M
NakedPoppy
Wellness Beauty
$16M
HEARTWORK
Real Estate
$6.4M
Product Hunt
Media
$24M
Soma
Energy
$4.8M
Locality
USA
$17M
05 · Portfolio founders

Where Cowboy Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.

117 founders across the 94 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States99
  2. South Korea2
  3. Türkiye2
  4. United Kingdom2
  5. Canada1
  6. Ireland1
  7. Israel1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University15
  2. Stanford University Graduate School of Business15
  3. University of California, Berkeley5
  4. Harvard Business School4
  5. Cornell University3
  6. Harvard University3
  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
  8. University of Texas at Austin3
  9. Yale University3
  10. Arizona State University2
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google9
  2. Microsoft5
  3. Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
  4. Uber4
  5. Amazon3
  6. Goldman Sachs3
  7. Instructure3
  8. Practice3
  9. 3M2
  10. Apple2
06 · Similar investors

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#62 rank 7,127 companies $1.9T portfolio
500 Global
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#431 rank 2,321 companies $284B portfolio
Kleiner Perkins
Private Equity · Menlo Park
#51 rank 778 companies $9.0T portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,188 companies $4.4T portfolio
Techstars
Accelerator · New York City
#855 rank 2,278 companies $249B portfolio
SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#109 rank 986 companies $3.7T portfolio
Plug and Play
Venture Capital · Sunnyvale
#410 rank 1,576 companies $290B portfolio
Insight Partners
Private Equity · New York City
#20 rank 817 companies $2.1T portfolio
07 · Key people

Key people at Cowboy Ventures.

Aileen Lee
Founder & Managing Partner
Caroline Duffy
Partner
Ted Wang
Board Partner
Kathy Huang
Investor
Rohan Puranik
Principal and Chief of Staff
Source: Curated from official investor team pages and verified public profiles.