Investing Profile

Auren Hoffman(3)

AngelFounderVCCEO

CEO and Chief Historian at SafeGraph

flexcapital.comVirginia

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Current Investing Position

SafeGraph

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

138

Auren Hoffman's Investments On Record (121)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Protege	Series AJan 2026$30M Series AAug 2025$25M SeedSep 2024$10M	$65M
Co-investors: Saar Gur (CRV), Nitesh Banta (Getaround), Travis May (Shaper Impact Capital), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Adam D'Angelo
Heron Data	Series AJul 2025$17M Pre SeedAug 2020$1M	$18M
Co-investors: Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Shivaas Gulati (ClubDNA)
YieldClub	Pre SeedJun 2025$3M	$3M
Co-investors: Sam Shank (a16z speedrun), Charlie Songhurst
Turnstile	Series AJun 2025$23M	$52M
Co-investors: Todd Jackson (First Round Capital), Laura Lenz (OMERS Ventures)
Toma	Series AJun 2025$17M SeedMay 2024$380K	$18M
Co-investors: Olivia Moore (Andreessen Horowitz), Ray Wu (Boundary Free Ventures), Michael Seibel (Y Combinator), Peter Livingston (Unpopular Ventures), Jim Payne (Breakpoint Capital), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Tom Blomfield
Mercury	Series CMar 2025$300M	$650M
Co-investors: Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Saar Gur (CRV), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Keith Grose (Andreessen Horowitz), Alex Rampell (Andreessen Horowitz), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Dan Rose (Coatue), Isaiah Boone (Sequoia Capital), Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Christian Edler (Sequoia Capital), Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Jonathan Swanson (Thumbtack), Neil Tolaney (TCV), Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Peggy Grigus Mangot (PayPal Ventures), Bill Clerico (Convective Capital), Brad Flora (Y Combinator), Ryan Shea (Stacks), Kevin Durant (Unknown Ventures), Fernando Pontaza (Invariantes Fund), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Scott Belsky (A24), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Jon Dishotsky (Daft Capital), Chris Moreno (On Deck), Cesare Pesci (YXS Capital), Yotis Tonnelier (YXS CAPITAL), Stu Smith (Coughdrop Capital), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Akshay Kothari (Sdl Ventures), Jack Altman (Lattice Ventures), Akshay Bhardwaj (Mavila & Elmkies - Consultoría de Negocios), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Joshua Webster (levy), Mathilde Collin, Joshua Reeves, Suhail Doshi, Andre Iguodala
FullEnrich	SeedJan 2025$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Kaan Anit (First Degree Capital), Erik Matlick (Metamorphic Ventures)
Perplexity	Series DDec 2024$500M	$1.3B
Co-investors: Shravan Narayen (IVP), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Peter Sonsini (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. New Incubation Ventures), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Stanley Druckenmiller (Quantum Wave Fund), Daniel Gross (Various), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Jeff Bezos, Shane Neman, Tobias Lutke, Bob Muglia, Mattia Astori, Amjad Masad

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API

Auren Hoffman's Experience

Board Member Datavant2019 - Present

CEO and Chief Historian SafeGraph2016 - Present

CEO Office of US Senator Daniel Patrick MoynihanPresent

CTO and co-founder Calling BrandsPresent

CEO Still Water DesignPresent

CEO Calling BrandsPresent

CTO and co-founder BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

CEO BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Co-Founder AerdosPresent

CTO and co-founder Xtripe AngelsPresent

CEO Kyber SystemsPresent

CEO Xtripe AngelsPresent

CTO and co-founder University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

VP Engineering University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Chairman University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Board Member University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

CEO University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

CTO and co-founder COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent

VP Engineering COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent

CEO COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent

Chairman COVENTRY UNIVERSITYPresent

CTO and co-founder Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

VP Engineering Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

CEO Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

Chairman Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent

CTO and co-founder Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

VP Engineering Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

CEO Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

Chairman Sm4rt Predictive SystemsPresent

non-employee GridStrongPresent

General Partner Flex CapitalPresent

CTO and co-founder NewCoPresent

VP Engineering NewCoPresent

CEO NewCoPresent

Chairman NewCoPresent

Member 6713 ClubPresent

Member World of DaaSPresent

Co-Founder EliotNestPresent

CEO and cofounder LiveRamp, An Acxiom CompanyPresent

CEO SafeGraphPresent

CEO NQB8Present

CTO and co-founder Top-PatentsPresent

VP Engineering Top-PatentsPresent

CEO Top-PatentsPresent

Chairman Top-PatentsPresent

Chairperson SafeGraphPresent

Host World of DaaSPresent

cofounder and first customer TitleDockPresent

Chairman DialogPresent

CEO and cofounder LiveRamp2006 - 2015

Board Member BrightRoll2013 - 2014

Chairman Stonebrick Group2003 - 2006

CEO BridgePath1998 - 2002

VP Engineering Human Ingenuity1997 - 1998

CTO and co-founder Kyber Systems1995 - 1997

Auren Hoffman's Education

University of California, Berkeley BSE Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Mamaroneck High School

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