Aileen Lee

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Ms. Aileen Lee is the Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Cowboy Ventures. Ms. Lee served as a Board Member at Tally. She partners at the earliest stages with enterprise and consumer-oriented startup teams to build products customers love, and to help teams build aspirational companies. She has over two decades of experience starting at the seed stage and staying involved for many years beyond. Before Cowboy, She spent over a decade with the venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. At KPCB she worked hands-on with companies from series A through IPO including Bloom Energy (BE), Rent the Runway (RENT), and Trendyol (acquired by Alibaba). During that time she was also founding CEO of KPCB-backed RMG Networks, a digital media company. She previously held operating roles at Gap Inc. and started her career at Morgan Stanley. She has degrees from MIT, HBS, and MHS (Millburn High, in NJ). She's proudly the co-founder of All Raise, on the board of the Castilleja School, and a Henry Crown Fellow. She's also a mom to 3 kids plus a dog and chickens, and wife to a startup co-founder/CTO. She is also known for the analysis that coined the business term "unicorn", being named one of Time 100's most influential people, as well as being on the Forbes Midas List and top seed investor lists for multiple years. She has degrees from MIT, HBS and MHS (Millburn High, in NJ). She is proudly the co-founder of All Raise, on the board of the Castilleja School, and a Henry Crown Fellow.