Aileen Lee

Aileen Lee is the founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, a seed-stage VC firm she started in 2012 after over a decade at Kleiner Perkins. She is best known for coining the term 'unicorn' in a 2013 TechCrunch analysis of billion-dollar startups, a word that has since reshaped how the entire tech industry talks about breakout companies. She co-founded All Raise in 2018 to accelerate funding for female investors and founders, and has backed companies like Dollar Shave Club, Chime, Product Hunt, and Guild. Named to Time 100 Most Influential People in 2019 and Forbes Midas List multiple years.