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

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Sequoia Capital Network

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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

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Aaref Hilaly's Investments On Record (35)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Norm AI	Series CJul 2026$120M Series AJun 2024$38M	$240M
Co-investors: Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Matthew Harris (Bain Capital Ventures), Rak Garg (Bain Capital 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), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), bill weathersby, Patrick Collison, John Collison, Karim Atiyeh, Tony Xu, Omri Casspi
Sunday	Series BMar 2026$170M	$280M
Co-investors: Brian O'Malley (Forerunner Ventures), Stephanie Zhan (Sequoia Capital), Griffin Schroeder (Tiger Global Management), Eric Vishria (Benchmark), 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: Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David Cheng (DCM), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sameer Dholakia (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sarah Hinkfuss (Bain Capital Ventures), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), 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: John Lilly (Greylock), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), 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), Julia Hartz, Dylan Field, Guillermo Rauch, Ed Baker, Akshay Kothari
Decagon	Series CJun 2025$130M Series BOct 2024$65M Series AJun 2024$30M	$480M
Co-investors: Ivan Zhou (Accel), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Nick Shalek (Ribbit Capital), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Lucas Swisher (Coatue Management), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Matt Macinnis (Various), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Jay Simons (Bond), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Gautam Gupta (Alex Angels (Alexandria Angel Network)), Aaron Levie, Frederic Kerrest, Howie Liu