Cowboy Technologies

For-Profit, New Venture Arm

Cowboy Technologies is the for-profit new venture arm of OSU. Cowboy Technologies, LLC, makes returns-based investments in internal OSU technology development projects and growth startups affiliated with OSU, including those licensing OSU intellectual property. We also prepare and position our portfolio startups to successfully raise commercial grant funding from federal agency SBIR/STTR, Oklahoma OCAST grants and others, in addition to equity-based capital from our network of aligned venture capital partners.

Export sales of high-value products and services
Diversification of the region and state economy
Quality jobs and retention of high caliber OSU graduates and faculty
Ongoing commercially relevant research and education opportunities with OSU
Local reinvestment in addition to attraction of outside investment

Commercial Grant Assistance and Startup Business Management

Cowboy Technologies, LLC provides select OSU-affiliated startups with decades of fiscal and business leadership and management experience in navigating the complexities of formation, registration, legal, fiscal and business operations, and federal and state commercial grant funding. For a small, minority co-founding equity stake in a startup, Cowboy Technologies will invest its time and expertise in a startup’s co-founding team through a trusted and valued partnership, to see the successful translation of innovations through to venture-backable and scalable startups in Oklahoma.

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Investment Funding

Cowboy Technologies provides investment into commercially viable OSU and OSU-affiliated technology-based startups and OSU internal projects with strong commercial teams. We are OSU’s most aligned investment partner. Investment vehicles include:

OSU internal project convertible equity investment
Startup pre-seed and seed convertible equity and priced equity investment
Riata Pre-Seed Fund, a student-specific managed fund

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