Tyler Cowen
Co-Founder @ MRUniversity
Fairfax, United States
Tyler Cowen is an American economist, academic, and writer.He occupies the Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics as a professor at George Mason University and is co-author, with Alex Tabarrok, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution.He currently writes the "Economic Scene" column for the New York Times, and he also writesfor such publications as The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, and The Wilson Quarterly.Cowen is also general director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.In February 2011, Cowen received a nomination as one of the most influential economists in the last decade through a survey by the Economist.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Tyler Cowen invests in
Stages Tyler Cowen invests in
Countries Tyler Cowen invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Grant
- $2.5k–$25k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Real Estate 2 (33%)
- Internet of Things 2 (33%)
- Consumer 1 (17%)
- Hardware 1 (17%)
- Wearables 1 (17%)
Stage
- Grant 3 (50%)
- Seed 1 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (17%)
Investments
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Bifrost Orbital
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OrbitalNerds develops bus subsystems and on-orbit infrastructure for both orbital and interplanetary needs. | $2.5K / Grant / Apr 01, 2024 | |
Augrade
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A Spatial computing platform to automate 3D design/engineering/development via Gen AI + AR | Grant / Jul 15, 2023 | |
Praxis
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Praxis is a membership-based platform aiming to build an autonomous city. Cities needed to be built around a source of economic opportunity to attract businesses that would create jobs and entice people to relocate. The platform enables people to live healthier, more purposeful lives. Praxis was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York. | $4.2M / Seed / Dec 01, 2021 | |
Praan
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Praan creates hyperlocal clean air zones within open areas on corporate campuses, schools, universities, hotels, hospitals, residential complexes, malls and industrial areas through a low-cost, filterless and artificially intelligent outdoor air purification technology, enabling individuals to breathe clean, healthy, fresh and safe air. | $25K / Grant / May 29, 2021 | |
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Praan
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Praan creates hyperlocal clean air zones within open areas on corporate campuses, schools, universities, hotels, hospitals, residential complexes, malls and industrial areas through a low-cost, filterless and artificially intelligent outdoor air purification technology, enabling individuals to breathe clean, healthy, fresh and safe air. | $22.5K / Grant / Nov 10, 2020 | |
Atmos
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Atmos develops a home-building platform to assist in the creation and design of customized houses. The company is constructing a managed marketplace for homebuilding, connecting home buyers.The company's platform makes it easier for customers to find and build their own homes according to their preferences, choices, and financial situationby offering a variety of designs, personalized packages, and interiors along with financing and construction processes.Atmos was established in 2018 by Trent Hedge, Nicholas Donahue, Matthew Rastovac, and Austin Kahn. | Pre-Seed / May 22, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About MRUniversity
MRUniversity (Marginal Revolution University) is an online education platform that offers courses on economics. Its courses include Principles Of Microeconomics, Everyday Economics, Development Economics, International Finance, Great Economists, Economics of The Media, International Trade, Eurozone Crisis, Mexico’s Economy, The American HousingFinance System, and Economic History of The Soviet Union.MRUniversity was launched in 2012 by professors Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University.
MRUniversity Contacts
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Tyler Cowen
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Alex Tabarrok
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Meg Gilliland
Digital Marketing
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Roman Hardgrave
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What does Tyler Cowen invest in?
Tyler Cowen invests primarily in Real Estate, Internet of Things and Consumer startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Tyler Cowen invest in?
Tyler Cowen typically joins rounds of $2.5k–$25k at Grant. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Tyler Cowen's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Tyler Cowen took part in.
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When did Tyler Cowen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Tyler Cowen closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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