Investing Profile

Aaref Hilaly(235)

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Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
baincapitalventures.com/team/...San Francisco, California
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Aaref Hilaly's investing connections

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49 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 46 other investors on Signal.

Networks Aaref is a member of
Harvard Business School Network
506 CONNECTIONS
University of Oxford Network
158 CONNECTIONS
Sequoia Capital Network
98 CONNECTIONS
McGill University Network
62 CONNECTIONS
Bain Capital Ventures Network
39 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Bain Capital Ventures Partner
Investment Range
$1M - $100.0M
Sweet Spot
$10.0M
Investments On Record
64

Aaref Hilaly is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Aaref Hilaly's Investments On Record (35)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Sunday
Series BMar 2026$170M
$280M
Co-investors: Eric Vishria (Benchmark), Brian O'Malley (Forerunner Ventures), Stephanie Zhan (Sequoia Capital), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Noah Knauf (Bond), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners)
Echelon AI
SeedOct 2025$5M
$5M
EvenUp
Series EOct 2025$150M
Series DOct 2024$140M
$370M
Co-investors: Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Scott Belsky (A24), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange)
Cognition
Series CSep 2025$400M
$900M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), bill weathersby
Charta Health
Series AJul 2025$22M
SeedFeb 2025$8M
$30M
Felt
Series UnknownJul 2025$15M
$39M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Scott Belsky (A24), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Keval Desai (InterWest), Ed Baker, Akshay Kothari
Decagon
Series CJun 2025$130M
Series BOct 2024$65M
Series AJun 2024$30M
$630M
Co-investors: Ivan Zhou (Accel), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Lucas Swisher (Coatue), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Gautam Gupta (Alex Angels (Alexandria Angel Network)), Jack Altman (Lattice Ventures), Elad Gil (Think Colorado)
Krea
Series BApr 2025$47M
$47M
Co-investors: Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures)

Aaref Hilaly's Experience

Series C Investor Cognition2025 - Present
Series B Investor + Board Member krea.ai2025 - Present
Seed & Series A Investor + Board Member Charta Health2024 - Present
Seed & Series B investor + Board Member Decagon2023 - Present
Series B & D investor + Board Member EvenUp2023 - Present
Seed Investor + Board Member Contextual AI2023 - Present
Partner Bain Capital Ventures2020 - Present
Partner Sequoia Capital2012 - 2019
Vice President, Engineering Symantec2011 - 2012
President & CEO Clearwell Systems2005 - 2011
Founder & CEO CenterRun2000 - 2003

Aaref Hilaly's Education

Harvard Business School MBA
University of Oxford BA Philosophy, Politics & Economics
McGill University MA Economics