Cowboy Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund 🤠 We invest in innovative pre-seed & seed stage tech founders 🌱
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27 Aug 2025
✨ Announcing Cowboy Ventures Consumer AI Office Hours ✨
Back by popular demand, we’re hosting office hours again on 📍 September 25th in Palo Alto , for early-stage founders building the next wave of Consumer AI products.
This is your chance for 🤝 1:1 conversations with the Cowboy team plus investors and operators from @ForerunnerVC , @CRV , @pearvc , @sasmith4, @ww_us, and @Reddit to get feedback on your fundraising story, product strategy, or growth plan.
📌 Event Snapshot
📝 Applications: Wed, Aug 27 – Wed, Sept 10 (decisions by Fri, Sept 12)
🗓 When: Thurs, Sept 25 from 1 – 5PM PST
💡 Format: 45-minute small group sessions designed to cover anything from your product roadmap to fundraising.
🍸 Mixer: Stay after for drinks and networking with investors, operators, and fellow founders
f you’re building in consumer and planning to raise venture capital, we’d love to hear from you.
🔗 Apply via the link in comments
#Consumer #AI #Startups #Venture
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21 Aug 2025
🚀 The Model Context Protocol (MCP) promises to let LLMs seamlessly connect to all our tools - from GitHub to Salesforce.
But there's a 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗴𝗮𝗽 between 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 and 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.
At Cowboy Ventures, we see 3 barriers creating major opportunities for builders ⬇️
1. 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 - They generate text, not orchestrate systems.
2. 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 - Direct backend access means prompt injection could execute actions, not just leak data.
3. 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - JSON configs kill mainstream use.
The eventual future is AI-defined workflows - telling Claude "prepare our GTM metrics for Slack" and watching it orchestrate everything automatically. But we need to solve these challenges first. Want to learn more?
🔗 to the full blog below.
👀 If you are building or have any additional thoughts, we’d love to connect: arman@cowboy.vc or aileen@cowboy.vc
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15 May 2025
Are you an early-stage founder (haven’t raised seed yet) building an enterprise infra, developer-focused or security solution? If so, apply to join us for Office Hours: Enterprise Infra, Dev Tools & Security hosted by Cowboy Ventures on June 18th. Link here: airtable.com/app28iVigV1Pmok…
Come get targeted feedback on your fundraising story, product roadmap, technical stack, go-to-market plans, or whatever topic is top of mind for you from @Cowboy partners, plus a curated group of top-notch investors and operators from @MenloVentures, @kleinerperkins , @Boldstartvc , @github , @GustoHQ , and @X .
Applications: Rolling from Thurs, May 15 to Mon, June 2 (decisions by Friday, June 6)
Event: Thurs afternoon, June 18, 2025
Location: In-person in Palo Alto, CA
Format: 45 min. kndividual sessions with Cowboy Ventures partners and partners from Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures, Github Ventures, Boldstart & more; and technical experts from leading infra, dev tools & security teams.
Mixer: After office hours, hang out for drinks & networking with fellow founders, operators & investors
If you’re tackling core enterprise challenges and planning to raise venture capital, please apply!
#EnterpriseInfra #DevTools #Security #AI #VC #startups
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12 Aug 2024
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We @cowboyvc continue to be excited about AI opps in “unsexy tech”. Find a deeper dive for some areas to modernize manufacturing written by our intern @LAMediorreal
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14 Jun 2024
Hats off to team @DrataHQ for another incredible Drataverse🤙
Tony Hawk *skateboarding* into #Drataverse24 like... 🛹🤘🤯
We closed out Drataverse yesterday with an incredible keynote from Tony Hawk. It was one for the books!
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28 May 2024
New pod up all about ✨the homebrew project✨
@amanda_robs & @tnachen talk with @Workbrew_ Founders @johndbritton & @MikeMcQuaid about building a company around the popular package manager⚡️
Full episode 👇
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…
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24 May 2024
🤠New Cowboy Job Alert🤠
We're looking for an awesome Associate or Senior Associate to add to our crew!
Join our fast-paced, close-knit & fun-loving team, while gaining extraordinary exposure to all facets of VC✨
Apply below👇
careers.cowboy.vc/jobdetail.…
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20 May 2024
New Open Source Startup Podcast on making complex data RAG ready💪
@amanda_robs & @tnachen talk w/ @UnstructuredIO Founder @_Brian_Raymond on:
⚡️Why LLMs need their own ETL
⚡️Why the long tail of data matters for LLMs
⚡️Building a world-class brand
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13 May 2024
Is Google's Zanzibar white paper the right approach to authorization? 🔓
Co-hosts @amanda_robs & @tnachen talk with @authzed CEO @JacobMoshenko about their decision to build around Zanzibar, why they brand themselves as a database, their Hacker News launch & more!
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10 May 2024
Catch Cowboy's @aileenlee at Bloomberg Tech Summit covering where we see opportunity in AI, the exit environment and much more alongside @kirstenagreen, Adeyami Ajao, and @tsgiles youtube.com/watch?v=3u50BHeR…
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10 May 2024
Do financial transactions need a specialized database 🤔?
Our co-hosts @amanda_robs & @tnachen talk with @TigerBeetleDB Founder @jorandirkgreef & dig into:
⚡️General purpose vs specialized DBs
⚡️Open source vs source available
⚡️Their unique take on monetization
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9 May 2024
A-team for Bloomberg Tech Summit's state of VC panel 🌟 @business
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2 May 2024
Time series databases have historically been focused on limited data types
Our latest @OssStartup Podcast from @amanda_robs & @tnachen interviews @rerundotio CEO @NikolausWest on the need for multimodal time series databases 💪
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2 May 2024
The team at @DrataHQ is bringing ✨Compliance as Code✨ to market with their acquisition of Oak9 💪
Drata acquired oak9 to bring shift-left compliance to our thousands of customers, along with a new capability, called ⚡️Compliance as Code ⚡️.
If you’re heading to #RSA next week, stop by booth 2133 in Moscone South for a demo.
More details below 👇
drata.com/blog/oak9-acquisit…
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1 May 2024
Join Cowboy's @aileenlee at #BloombergTech on May 9th in SF for a discussion on all things AI, the startup landscape, and much more alongside Base10's Ade Ajao, @kirstengreen, and @tsgiles
events.bloomberglive.com/blo…
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