Investing Profile

Auren Hoffman(3)

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General Partner at Flex Capital

flexcapital.comVirginia

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Connected to Pete Flint (NFX), Itamar Novick (Recursive Ventures).

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Current Investing Position

Flex Capital General Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

133

Current Fund Size

$300M

Auren Hoffman's Investments On Record (117)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Protege	Series AAug 2025$25M SeedSep 2024$10M	$35M
Co-investors: Saar Gur (CRV), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Adam D'Angelo, Travis May
Heron Data	Series AJul 2025$17M SeedAug 2020$1M	$18M
Co-investors: Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Nimi Katragadda (BoxGroup), Philine Huizing (Insight Partners), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Shivaas Gulati
Turnstile	Series AJun 2025$23M	$23M
Toma	Series AJun 2025$17M SeedMay 2024$380K	$18M
Co-investors: Ray Wu (Alumni Ventures ), Gokul Rajaram, Tom Blomfield
Mercury	Series CMar 2025$300M	$450M
Co-investors: Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Saar Gur (CRV), Alex Rampell (Andreessen Horowitz), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Dan Rose (Coatue), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Christian Edler (BITKRAFT Ventures), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Bill Clerico (Convective Capital), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Cesare Pesci (YOBE Ventures), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Yotis Tonnelier (YOBE Ventures), Peggy Grigus Mangot (Pioneer Fund), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Chris Moreno (Infinite Niches), Jon Dishotsky (Daft Capital), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Andre Iguodala, Immad Akhund, Ryan Shea, Joshua Webster, Jonathan Swanson, Suhail Doshi, Scott Belsky, Joshua Reeves, Bradley Horowitz
Perplexity	Series DDec 2024$500M	$1.3B
Co-investors: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Sameer Gandhi (Accel), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Amjad Masad, Yann LeCun, Jeff Bezos, Peter Sonsini, Mattia Astori, Elad Gil, Tobias Lutke, Stanley Druckenmiller, Dylan Field, Bob Muglia, Guillermo Rauch, Balaji Srinivasan
Hello Patient	SeedOct 2024$6M	$29M
Co-investors: Sebastian Caliri (8VC), Jeremy Kaufmann (Scale Venture Partners), David Beazley (Alumni Ventures ), Ryan Darnell (Max Ventures), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin, Andrew Berman
Outerport	Pre SeedSep 2024$500K	$500K
Co-investors: Brad Flora (Y Combinator)