Episode 90 is with Amanda Robson, Partner at Cowboy Ventures!

Originally from Ancaster, Ontario, Amanda, better known as Robby, invests in B2B seed & pre-seed founders and focuses on innovations in developer tooling, data management, security, applied AI, and supply chain.

In November 2020, she led a US$3.2-million investment round in a securities-software company called Drata, now worth US$1 billion.

When she’s not crushing it as a newly minted and youngest partner at Cowboy Ventures, she’s running her organization, Modern Angels, which seeks to democratize funding for women and non-binary people. She also co-hosts her own podcast, The Open Source Startup Podcast.

Cowboy Ventures is a seed-stage focused fund investing in digital startups that seeks to back exceptional founders who are building products that re-imagine work and personal life in large and growing markets.

We sit down to speak with Robby about her career journey from Ontario to Silicon Valley. She details the tech landscape across North America, the importance of DEI, why she’s big on Open Source, the art of cold outreach, and much more.

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