Investing Profile

Aaref Hilaly(235)

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures

baincapitalventures.com/team/...San Francisco, California

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Aaref Hilaly's investing connections

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

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University of Oxford Network

267 CONNECTIONS

Sequoia Capital Network

132 CONNECTIONS

McGill University Network

108 CONNECTIONS

Bain Capital Ventures Network

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Current Investing Position

Bain Capital Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$1M - $100.0M

Sweet Spot

$10.0M

Investments On Record

Aaref Hilaly is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Hardware (Seed)Analytics (Series A)SMB Software (Seed)Analytics (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Series A)Social Networks (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Seed)Hardware (Series A)AI (Seed)SMB Software (Series A)AI (Series A)Marketplaces (Series A)Enterprise (Series A)Enterprise (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Social Networks (Series A)SaaS (Series A)Marketplaces (Seed)SaaS (Seed)

Aaref Hilaly's Investments On Record (35)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Cognition	Series DMay 2026$1B Series CSep 2025$400M	$1.9B
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Keith Bender (Pear VC), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), John Collison, Patrick Collison, Tony Xu, Omri Casspi, Karim Atiyeh, bill weathersby
Sunday	Series BMar 2026$170M	$280M
Co-investors: Eric Vishria (Benchmark), Brian O'Malley (Forerunner Ventures), Stephanie Zhan (Sequoia Capital), Griffin Schroeder (Tiger Global Management), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Noah Knauf (Bond), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor)
Echelon AI	SeedOct 2025$5M	$5M
Co-investors: Rak Garg (Bain Capital Ventures)
EvenUp	Series EOct 2025$150M Series DOct 2024$140M	$370M
Co-investors: David Cheng (DCM), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sameer Dholakia (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sarah Hinkfuss (Bain Capital Ventures), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com)
Charta Health	Series AJul 2025$22M SeedFeb 2025$8M	$30M
Felt	Series UnknownJul 2025$15M	$39M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Sunil Sharma (Techstars), Keval Desai (InterWest), Mike Smith (Footwork), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Juan Muldoon (Energize Capital), Julia Hartz, Akshay Kothari, Guillermo Rauch, Ed Baker, Dylan Field
Decagon	Series CJun 2025$130M Series BOct 2024$65M Series AJun 2024$30M	$480M
Co-investors: Nick Shalek (Ribbit Capital), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Ivan Zhou (Accel), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Gautam Gupta (Alex Angels (Alexandria Angel Network)), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Lucas Swisher (Coatue Management), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Matt Macinnis (Various), Jay Simons (Bond), Frederic Kerrest, Aaron Levie, Howie Liu
Krea	Series BApr 2025$47M	$47M
Co-investors: Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Anish Acharya (Andreessen Horowitz), Rak Garg (Bain Capital Ventures), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures)