Investing Profile

Aaref Hilaly(235)

baincapitalventures.com/team/...San Francisco, California

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49 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 46 other investors on Signal.

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Harvard Business School Network

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Sequoia Capital 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 (33)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Echelon	SeedOct 2025$5M	$9M
Co-investors: Rak Garg (Bain Capital Ventures), Chris Yin (Scale Venture Partners)
EvenUp	Series EOct 2025$150M Series DOct 2024$140M	$370M
Co-investors: Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sameer Dholakia (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sarah Hinkfuss (Bain Capital Ventures), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), David Cheng (DCM), Morgan Beller (NFX), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Gokul Rajaram, Scott Belsky
Cognition	Series CSep 2025$400M	$900M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Keith Bender (Pear VC), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Elad Gil, Patrick Collison, bill weathersby, John Collison, Tony Xu, Karim Atiyeh
Charta Health	Series AJul 2025$22M SeedFeb 2025$8M	$30M
Felt	Series UnknownJul 2025$15M	$39M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital), Sunil Sharma (Techstars), Keval Desai (InterWest), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Mike Smith (Footwork), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Juan Muldoon (Energize Ventures), Ed Baker, Akshay Kothari, Dylan Field, Julia Hartz, Guillermo Rauch, Scott Belsky
Decagon	Series CJun 2025$130M Series BOct 2024$65M Series AJun 2024$30M	$230M
Co-investors: Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Nick Shalek (Ribbit Capital), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Ivan Zhou (Accel), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Joshua Müller (DTCP), Anu Hariharan (Y Combinator), Jay Simons (Bond), Gautam Gupta (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Aaron Levie, Elad Gil, Mike Vernal, Howie Liu, Frederic Kerrest, Matt Macinnis
Krea	Series BApr 2025$47M	$47M
Co-investors: Rak Garg (Bain Capital Ventures), Anish Acharya (Andreessen Horowitz), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures)
Actively	Series AApr 2025$18M	$18M
Co-investors: Ajay Agarwal (Bain Capital Ventures), Ali Rowghani (Y Combinator)