Investing Profile

Auren Hoffman(3)

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General Partner at Flex Capital

flexcapital.comVirginia

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

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Current Investing Position

Flex Capital General Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

133

Current Fund Size

$300M

Auren Hoffman's Investments On Record (117)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Protege	Series AAug 2025$25M SeedSep 2024$10M	$35M
Co-investors: Saar Gur (CRV), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Adam D'Angelo, Travis May
Heron Data	Series AJul 2025$17M SeedAug 2020$1M	$18M
Co-investors: Philine Huizing (Insight Partners), Nimi Katragadda (BoxGroup), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Shivaas Gulati
Turnstile	Series AJun 2025$23M	$23M
Toma	Series AJun 2025$17M SeedMay 2024$380K	$18M
Co-investors: Ray Wu (Alumni Ventures ), Gokul Rajaram, Tom Blomfield
Mercury	Series CMar 2025$300M	$450M
Co-investors: Alex Rampell (Andreessen Horowitz), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Saar Gur (CRV), Keith Grose (Andreessen Horowitz), Christian Edler (BITKRAFT Ventures), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Dan Rose (Coatue), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Jon Dishotsky (Daft Capital), Chris Moreno (Infinite Niches), Cesare Pesci (YOBE Ventures), Yotis Tonnelier (YOBE Ventures), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Peggy Grigus Mangot (Pioneer Fund), Bill Clerico (Convective Capital), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Kevin Durant (Thirty Five Ventures), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Bradley Horowitz, Joshua Reeves, Joshua Webster, Sahin Boydas, Immad Akhund, Andre Iguodala, Ryan Shea, Jonathan Swanson, Scott Belsky, Suhail Doshi
Perplexity	Series DDec 2024$500M	$1.3B
Co-investors: Sameer Gandhi (Accel), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Joshua Müller (DTCP), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Peter Sonsini, Mattia Astori, Shane Neman, Elad Gil, Balaji Srinivasan, Tobias Lutke, Stanley Druckenmiller, Amjad Masad, Yann LeCun, Dylan Field, Jeff Bezos, Bob Muglia, Guillermo Rauch
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)