Investing Profile

Auren Hoffman(3)

AngelFounderVCCEO

CEO and Chief Historian at SafeGraph

flexcapital.comVirginia

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

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Current Investing Position

SafeGraph

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

134

Auren Hoffman's Investments On Record (117)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Protege	Series AJan 2026$30M Series AAug 2025$25M SeedSep 2024$10M	$65M
Co-investors: Saar Gur (CRV), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Travis May (Theodore Health), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Adam D'Angelo
Heron Data	Series AJul 2025$17M Pre SeedAug 2020$1M	$18M
Co-investors: Philine Huizing (Insight Partners), Nimi Katragadda (BoxGroup), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Shivaas Gulati (ClubDNA), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital)
Turnstile	Series AJun 2025$23M	$52M
Co-investors: Todd Jackson (First Round Capital), Laura Lenz (OMERS Ventures)
Toma	Series AJun 2025$17M SeedMay 2024$380K	$18M
Co-investors: Olivia Moore (Andreessen Horowitz), Ray Wu (Alumni Ventures ), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Tom Blomfield
Mercury	Series CMar 2025$300M	$650M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Saar Gur (CRV), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Keith Grose (Andreessen Horowitz), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Dan Rose (Coatue), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Isaiah Boone (Sequoia Capital), Alex Rampell (Andreessen Horowitz), Christian Edler (BITKRAFT Ventures), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Neil Tolaney (TCV), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Peggy Grigus Mangot (Pioneer Fund), Bill Clerico (Convective Capital), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Jonathan Swanson (Thumbtack), Ryan Shea (Voterbase), Kevin Durant (oklahoma city thunder), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Edward Lando (Biowear), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Jon Dishotsky (Daft Capital), Chris Moreno (Engage Ventures), Cesare Pesci (YOBE Ventures), Yotis Tonnelier (YOBE Ventures), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Akshay Bhardwaj (Gias), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Joshua Webster, Akshay Kothari, Dylan Field, Andre Iguodala, Joshua Reeves, Mathilde Collin, Suhail Doshi
Perplexity	Series DDec 2024$500M	$1.3B
Co-investors: Shravan Narayen (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Stanley Druckenmiller (Quantum Wave Fund), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Jim Scheinman (Zoom Video Communications), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Shane Neman, Mattia Astori, Tobias Lutke, Dylan Field, Guillermo Rauch, Jeff Bezos, Peter Sonsini, Balaji Srinivasan, Bob Muglia, Amjad Masad
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)

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Auren Hoffman's Experience

Board Member Datavant2019 - Present

CEO and Chief Historian SafeGraph2016 - Present

CTO and co-founder Calling BrandsPresent

CEO Still Water DesignPresent

CEO Calling BrandsPresent

CTO and co-founder BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

CEO BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Co-Founder AerdosPresent

CTO and co-founder Xtripe AngelsPresent

CEO Kyber SystemsPresent

CEO Xtripe AngelsPresent

CTO and co-founder University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

VP Engineering University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Chairman University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Board Member University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

CEO University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

CTO and co-founder COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent

VP Engineering COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent

CEO COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent

Chairman COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent

CTO and co-founder Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

VP Engineering Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

CEO Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

Chairman Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

CTO and co-founder Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

VP Engineering Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

CEO Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

Chairman Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

non-employee GridStrongPresent

General Partner Flex CapitalPresent

CTO and co-founder NewCoPresent

VP Engineering NewCoPresent

CEO NewCoPresent

Chairman NewCoPresent

Member 6713 ClubPresent

Member World of DaaSPresent

Co-Founder EliotNestPresent

CEO and cofounder LiveRamp, An Acxiom CompanyPresent

CEO SafeGraphPresent

CEO NQB8Present

CTO and co-founder Top-PatentsPresent

VP Engineering Top-PatentsPresent

CEO Top-PatentsPresent

Chairman Top-PatentsPresent

Chairperson SafeGraphPresent

Host World of DaaSPresent

cofounder and first customer TitleDockPresent

Chairman DialogPresent

CEO and cofounder LiveRamp2006 - 2015

Board Member BrightRoll2013 - 2014

Chairman Stonebrick Group2003 - 2006

CEO BridgePath1998 - 2002

VP Engineering Human Ingenuity1997 - 1998

CTO and co-founder Kyber Systems1995 - 1997

Auren Hoffman's Education

University of California, Berkeley BSE Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Mamaroneck High School

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