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: Nimi Katragadda (BoxGroup), Adam Rothenberg (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: Saar Gur (CRV), Keith Grose (Andreessen Horowitz), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Christian Edler (BITKRAFT Ventures), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Alex Rampell (Andreessen Horowitz), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Dan Rose (Coatue), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Chris Moreno (Infinite Niches), Cesare Pesci (YOBE Ventures), Yotis Tonnelier (YOBE Ventures), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Peggy Grigus Mangot (Pioneer Fund), Bill Clerico (Convective Capital), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Andre Iguodala, Sahin Boydas, Bradley Horowitz, Joshua Reeves, Scott Belsky, Suhail Doshi, Jonathan Swanson, Ryan Shea, Joshua Webster
Perplexity	Series DDec 2024$500M	$770M
Co-investors: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Joshua Müller (DTCP), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Guillermo Rauch, Jeff Bezos, Balaji Srinivasan, Tobias Lutke, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Sonsini, Shane Neman, Dylan Field, Bob Muglia, Amjad Masad, Yann LeCun
Hello Patient	SeedOct 2024$6M	$29M
Co-investors: Sebastian Caliri (8VC), Jeremy Kaufmann (Scale Venture Partners), 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)