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

Connected to 49 investors on Signal.

Networks Aaref is a member of

Harvard Business School Network

631 CONNECTIONS

University of Oxford Network

274 CONNECTIONS

Sequoia Capital Network

136 CONNECTIONS

McGill University Network

108 CONNECTIONS

Bain Capital Ventures Network

53 CONNECTIONS

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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
Norm AI	Series CJul 2026$120M Series AJun 2024$38M	$220M
Co-investors: Rak Garg (Bain Capital Ventures), Matthew Harris (Bain Capital Ventures), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Oren Etzioni (Madrona Ventures), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, LP), Marc Benioff
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), Omri Casspi, John Collison, Patrick Collison, bill weathersby, Tony Xu, Karim Atiyeh
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 (Tribe Capital), Morgan Beller (NF Forward), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, LP), 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: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), John Lilly (Greylock), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, LP), Keval Desai (InterWest), Mike Smith (Footwork), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Juan Muldoon (Energize Capital), Sunil Sharma (Techstars), Guillermo Rauch, Julia Hartz, Akshay Kothari, Dylan Field, Ed Baker
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), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Gautam Gupta (Alex Angels (Alexandria Angel Network)), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Lucas Swisher (Coatue Management), Jay Simons (Bond), Matt Macinnis (Various), Frederic Kerrest, Howie Liu, Aaron Levie

Aaref Hilaly's Experience

Series B Investor + Board Member krea.ai2025 - Present

Series C Investor Cognition2025 - Present

Seed & Series A Investor + Board Member Charta Health2024 - Present

Seed Investor + Board Member Contextual AI2023 - Present

Series B & D investor + Board Member EvenUp2023 - Present

Seed & Series B investor + Board Member Decagon2023 - Present

Partner Bain Capital Ventures2020 - Present

Founding Investor and Board of Directors ClariPresent

Board of Directors ThousandEyes (part of Cisco)Present

Board of Directors Skyhigh NetworksPresent

Board of Directors Guardant HealthPresent

Advisor / Board Of Directors LightstepPresent

Founding Investor and Board Member TruEraPresent

Seed Investor + Board Member FeltPresent

Seed Investor + Board Member MomentoPresent

Seed Investor + Board Member CleanlabPresent

Seed & Series A Investor + Board Member Charta Health (formerly Limo Health)Present

President & CEO Veritas Technologies LLCPresent

Partner Bain Capital Ventures (BCV)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

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