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

Connected to 49 investors on Signal.

Networks Aaref is a member of

Harvard Business School Network

738 CONNECTIONS

University of Oxford Network

357 CONNECTIONS

Sequoia Capital Network

193 CONNECTIONS

McGill University Network

134 CONNECTIONS

Bain Capital Ventures Network

99 CONNECTIONS

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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

Hardware (Seed)Analytics (Series A)SMB Software (Seed)Analytics (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Series A)Social Networks (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Seed)Hardware (Series A)AI (Seed)SMB Software (Series A)AI (Series A)Marketplaces (Series A)Enterprise (Series A)Enterprise (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Social Networks (Series A)SaaS (Series A)Marketplaces (Seed)SaaS (Seed)

Aaref Hilaly's Investments On Record (35)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Norm AI	Series CJul 2026$120M Series AJun 2024$38M	$220M
Co-investors: Rak Garg (Bain Capital Ventures), Matthew Harris (Bain Capital Ventures), Samir Kaul (Khosla 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 (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Nitesh Banta (Getaround), Tony Xu (DoorDash), Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), bill weathersby, Patrick Collison, John Collison, Karim Atiyeh, 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: Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sameer Dholakia (Bessemer Venture Partners), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Sarah Hinkfuss (Halyard Collective), David Cheng (Costanoa Ventures), Morgan Beller (NF Forward), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, LP), Scott Belsky (A24), 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 (A24), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Juan Muldoon (Energize Capital), Sunil Sharma (Techstars), Dylan Field, Guillermo Rauch, Akshay Kothari, Ed Baker, Julia Hartz
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), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Lucas Swisher (Coatue Management), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Matt Macinnis (Various), Steve Loughlin (Accel-KKR), 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

Aaref Hilaly's Experience

Series B Investor + Board Member krea.ai2025 - Present

Series C Investor Cognition2025 - Present

Seed & Series A Investor + Board Member Charta Health2024 - Present

Seed Investor + Board Member Contextual AI2023 - Present

Series B & D investor + Board Member EvenUp2023 - Present

Seed & Series B investor + Board Member Decagon2023 - Present

Partner Bain Capital Ventures2020 - Present

Founding Investor and Board of Directors ClariPresent

Board of Directors ThousandEyes (part of Cisco)Present

Board of Directors Skyhigh NetworksPresent

Board of Directors Guardant HealthPresent

Advisor / Board Of Directors LightstepPresent

Founding Investor and Board Member TruEraPresent

Seed Investor + Board Member FeltPresent

Seed Investor + Board Member MomentoPresent

Seed Investor + Board Member CleanlabPresent

Seed & Series A Investor + Board Member Charta Health (formerly Limo Health)Present

President & CEO Veritas Technologies LLCPresent

Partner Bain Capital Ventures (BCV)Present

Partner Sequoia Capital2012 - 2019

Vice President, Engineering Symantec2011 - 2012

President & CEO Clearwell Systems2005 - 2011

Founder & CEO CenterRun2000 - 2003

Aaref Hilaly's Education

Harvard Business School MBA

University of Oxford BA Philosophy, Politics & Economics

McGill University MA Economics

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