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Aileen Lee

Founder & Managing Partner · Cowboy Venture

Check $250K–$10M
PRE SEED
SEED
SERIES A
Consumer
Fintech
AI
Marketplaces

Investment thesis

I back 'wild turkeys' — companies that the consensus thinks are dead, weird, or un-fundable, but where the founder has a unique angle. Consumer, fintech, and frontier tech.

Communication style

Curious, contrarian, founder-friendly. Encourages hard questions and unusual paths.

Red flags

  • •Founder chasing consensus rather than creating it
  • •No moat against the leader being copied

Signature questions

  1. 1.What's the consensus wrong about here?
  2. 2.Why you, why now, why this — and why will the consensus disagree for 24 months?
  3. 3.What would success look like and how will it surprise the market?

Selected portfolio

TaskRabbit
Mint
Weddington Way
Hipcamp

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