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

158 CONNECTIONS

Sequoia Capital Network

99 CONNECTIONS

McGill University Network

62 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
Sunday	Series BMar 2026$170M	$280M
Co-investors: Brian O'Malley (Forerunner Ventures), Stephanie Zhan (Sequoia Capital), Eric Vishria (Benchmark), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Noah Knauf (Bond)
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: Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Morgan Beller (NFX), Allison Pickens (Bessemer Venture Partners), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Scott Belsky (A24), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com)
Cognition	Series CSep 2025$400M	$900M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Keith Bender (Pear VC), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Karim Atiyeh, bill weathersby, Patrick Collison, John Collison
Charta Health	Series AJul 2025$22M SeedFeb 2025$8M	$30M
Felt	Series UnknownJul 2025$15M	$39M
Co-investors: Allison Pickens (Bessemer Venture Partners), John Lilly (Greylock), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Keval Desai (InterWest), Mike Smith (Footwork), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Scott Belsky (A24), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Juan Muldoon (Energize Capital), Sunil Sharma (Techstars), Julia Hartz, Akshay Kothari, Ed Baker, Dylan Field
Decagon	Series CJun 2025$130M Series BOct 2024$65M Series AJun 2024$30M	$630M
Co-investors: Lucas Swisher (Coatue), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Nick Shalek (Ribbit Capital), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Ivan Zhou (Accel), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Matt Macinnis (Various), Jay Simons (Bond), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Gautam Gupta (Alex Angels (Alexandria Angel Network)), Aaron Levie
Krea	Series BApr 2025$47M	$47M
Co-investors: Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Anish Acharya (Andreessen Horowitz), Rak Garg (Bain Capital Ventures), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures)