Aileen Lee

Aileen Lee
Aileen Lee Backstage at Tech Crunch 2013
Born	1970 (age 46–47) Staten Island, New York
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard Business School
Known for	Founder and Managing Partner of Cowboy Ventures

Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor who was a venture capital investor. She joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 and was founding CEO of RMG Networks, a company backed by KPCB. She later founded 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 a New York Times article. A unicorn is generally defined as a privately held startup that has a $1 billion valuation – something rare (like a unicorn).

Lee earned her bachelor's degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1992. After MIT, she worked as a financial analyst for two years at Morgan Stanley. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997.

Lee has made investments in many early stage companies, including August,Dollar Shave Club,Accompany and Tally Technologies.

Lee grew up in New Jersey and is the daughter of Chinese immigrants.