Aileen Lee

Aileen Lee (born 1970) is a U.S. venture capital angel investor and co-founder of Cowboy Ventures.

Aileen Lee
Lee backstage at Tech Crunch 2013
Born1970 (age 5354)
Nationality United States
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard Business School
Known forCo-founder and managing partner of 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 The New York Times. A unicorn is generally defined as a privately held startup that has a $1 billion valuation or more – something rare (like a unicorn).

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