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Aileen Lee (born 1970) is a U.S. venture capital angel investor and co-founder of Cowboy Ventures. Lee coined the often-used Silicon Valley term unicorn in a TechCrunch article "Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning from Billion-Dollar Startups" as profiled in The New York Times.
Nov 8, 2023 · It has been 10 years since Cowboy Ventures’ founder Aileen Lee coined an incredibly catchy nickname for what were very rare startups at the time: Unicorns.
Feb 26, 2020 · Venture capitalist Aileen Lee ’92 is a seed-stage investor legendary for her success in bringing tech-driven companies to life. She famously coined the term “unicorn” to convey just how rare...
Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee is one of the most influential people of 2019 for fighting for gender equality in Silicon Valley, Kirsten Green writes. Find out why Aileen Lee is on this...
May 2, 2022 · After spending more than a decade at Kleiner Perkins, Aileen Lee made what felt like an enormously risky career decision: In 2012, she went out on her own and founded a seed fund, Cowboy...
Jan 24, 2024 · A decade after coining the term “unicorn” to describe startups with a $1 billion valuation, Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee says the next 10 years need better capital efficiency and ...
Jan 25, 2024 · Aileen Lee, the VC who coined ‘unicorns,’ on why it’s so hard to track billion dollar startups—and what she thinks of their dark cousins, ‘unicorpses’
Jan 25, 2024 · Aileen Lee, managing partner and cofounder of Cowboy Ventures. Marlena Sloss—Bloomberg/Getty Images. A decade after Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn,” she knows that the term has...
Ten years ago, Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee was looking for the right metaphor to describe hypergrowth software companies that hit--or surpassed--a valuation of $1 billion.
Mar 31, 2023 · Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, is one of Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance in 2023. Read more about her career and accomplishments here.
