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The best GIC rates in Canada for 2025 + MORE Feb 3rd
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Cowboy Venture’s Amanda Robson Is Helping Women Founders Secure Funding
– canadianbusiness.com
Amanda Robson, originally from Ancaster, Ont., is a powerhouse in Silicon Valley. 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 the youngest ever) partner at Cowboy Ventures, a VC fund supporting a diverse array of seed-stage founders, she’s running her organization, Modern Angels, which seeks to democratize funding for women and non-binary people.
Age: 30 Based in: San FranciscoDegree: H.B.A. (Ivey Business School at University of Western Ontario)
My goal in life:
To empower a new set of generational founders. Today, founders of top technology companies are predominantly men and not diverse. That doesn’t align with what the pool of high-potential founders looks like. I want to change that.
I thought I’d grow up to be:
A makeup artist. I always thought I would be in an industry that helps people feel good about themselves.
My biggest mentor:
Different stages of life require different mentors…
