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Cowboy Ventures
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Cowboy Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. It supports founders with connections, operating experience, and recruiting, fundraising, and go-to-market help.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsenterprisefintechdev toolshealthcareconsumervertical ai
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Or find every investor that fitsCowboy Ventures lists 74 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (18%), Fintech (13%) and Enterprise Software (12%). 83% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Western Technology Investment, Y Combinator and Felicis.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cowboy Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Cowboy Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 74. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 60% |
| Series A | 40% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 1 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 92th | 74 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 60% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 69th | 7% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 9th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 12% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Western Technology Investment | 5 |
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| Felicis | 4 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 4 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 3 |
| Modern Technical Fund | 3 |
| NEA | 3 |
| Operator Collective | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7095%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company45%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Western Technology Investment
Compare Cowboy Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Cowboy Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 8 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Feb 2020 | Seed |
Round details for Cowboy Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cowboy Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
74 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accompany provides people and company intelligence for executives. | Enterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Arcol provides a way to blend design intent and construction reality | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| August makes smart locks for keyless entry | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Aura Health offers a mental wellness and sleep app with personalized resources and AI-driven personalization. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Autonomous Robotics is developing an autonomous underwater vehicle solution to be deployed in swarms for assessing and measuring key data in depths of up to 3000 metres. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aviso provides an AI revenue platform for businesses to predict, guide, and simplify revenue actions. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Basata provides AI solutions to help healthcare teams with administrative tasks | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Binti helps child welfare agencies save time, improve outcomes, and put children first with its software solutions. | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Branch provides a mobile measurement and deep linking platform for businesses | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Brava Home, Inc. produces and sells a smart countertop oven that uses light-based cooking technology. | ConsumerFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | |||
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| Capstack Technologies operates a platform for loan trading, servicing and portfolio analytics | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| CarbonAI provides AI agents for commercial real estate lending teams to automate workflows such as underwriting, due diligence, and asset surveillance. | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| ChartHop provides organizational intelligence for people analytics, headcount planning, and human capital management | Human ResourcesEnterprise Software | Feb 2020Seed | Page + round | |
| Contra operates a professional network for jobs and skills of the future | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
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| The company sells razors, handles, and grooming products. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
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| The company creates gaming hardware and accessories in collaboration with various gaming franchises. | GamingConsumer | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- cowboy.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Feb 2020
- Companies checked
- 74
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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