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Cowboy Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2012 · Active in 2026

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4 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #385 · Global · 4 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns → 0% 5y
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Decacorns → 5y
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Thoroughbreds ↑ 200% 5y
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Cowboy Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2012. The page below shows 4 Power Law outcomes from Cowboy Ventures's portfolio — 4 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other · Edtech · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA. Cowboy ranks #385 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 4 Cowboy Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA4
By sectorCount
  1. Other1
  2. Edtech1
  3. Other B2B Software1
  4. Cybersecurity1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A1
  2. Seed3
01 · Portfolio market map

Cowboy's 4 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
4 of 4 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Cowboy's founders come from — and where they study.

15 founders across the 4 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Instructure are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States11
Romania4
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UniversityCount
Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
University of Southern California2
University of California, San Diego2
Stanford University2
Northern Arizona University1
Bucknell University1
UCLA1
University of Arizona1
Cornell University1
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Origin companyCount
Instructure2
Gusto2
Amazon2
Microsoft2
MapBox1
Zuora1
Alphabet | Google1
Current1
eBay1
Redfin1
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Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Cowboy.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does Cowboy stack up?

Cowboy in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Cowboy Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cowboy on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Cowboy Ventures

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Cowboy — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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