Cowboy Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

147

Average round size

13M

Portfolio companies

81

Rounds per year

12.25

Lead investments

15

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

20

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechArtificial IntelligenceSaaSAppsMobile AppsEducation

Summary

Cowboy Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2012. The main department of described VC is located in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

This Cowboy Ventures works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Cowboy Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Aileen Lee. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Cowboy Ventures, startups are often financed by Redpoint, Harrison Metal, Y Combinator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kleiner Perkins, Slow Ventures, Pear Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Harrison Metal, First Round Capital, Slow Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Internet, Social Media. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Dollar Shave Club, Branch, LendingHome

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
FintechB2B/EnterpriseHealthcareFuture of WorkConsumer/Retail
Stage focus
SeedSeries APre-SeedSeries B
Geo focus
United States
Check size
500K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 140000000

Analytics

Total investments
147
Lead investments
15
Exits
20
Rounds per year
12.25
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Software (56)
  • Internet (30)
  • SaaS (24)
  • E-Commerce (22)
  • Artificial Intelligence (15)
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Investments by region
  • United States (144)
  • Germany (2)
Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
179M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
3.17
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Arcol 31 Jul 2021 Software, Artificial Intelligence Seed 1M United States, Delaware, Middletown
CapStack 12 Jul 2023 Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology Seed 6M United States, Florida, Miami

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