Auren Hoffman Flex
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/auren/
Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos
Jan 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 7 mos
$200M seed stage venture firm. We invest $300k to $1M in ambitious founders building generational tech companies and invest in ~50 companies a year.
portfolio: Airbyte, alphaXiv, Ampersand, AngelList, Applovin, Atlan, Cal.com, Carta, Checkr, Chia, Chime, CodeRabbit, Crossbeam, Crunchbase, Daffy, Dataminr, Datavant, Dub.co, Entrepreneur First, Estuary, Fern, Fractional AI, G2, Goodday, Gorgias, Gusto, H1 Insights, Heron Data, Hydra Host, Iterable, Juniper Square, Lemonaid Health, Marqeta, Mercury, MikMak, Office Hours, OneSignal, Outerport, People Data Labs, Perchwell, Perplexity, Plato HQ, Protege, Qualia, Replica, Replit, Retool, Rippling, Sincera, Spade, Stackblitz (Bolt.new), Strapi, Streamlit, Strive, Supabase, Superhuman, Tailscale, Toma, Topline, Vercel.
Mar 2006 - Present · 20 yrs 5 mos
Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos
Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo
- Chairperson
- Jan 2025 - Oct 2025 · 10 mos
- CEO
- Apr 2016 - Dec 2024 · 8 yrs 9 mos
- SafeGraph is the place for data about physical places. Just the data, just the facts.
- We focus on truth data around geospatial places and points of interest (POIs). We are just a data company. SafeGraph predicts the past.
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos
Apr 2006 - Sep 2015 · 9 yrs 6 mos
LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) is largest middleware company that connects marketing applications.
(LiveRamp was formerly named Rapleaf)
May 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos
First investor and board member. BrightRoll is a very large video ad exchange with hundreds of employees in the U.S. and Europe. BrightRoll was acquired by Yahoo for $640 million on Dec 15, 2014.
Chairman
Stonebrick Group
Jul 2003 - Apr 2006 · 2 yrs 10 mos
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CEO
BridgePath
Jun 1998 - Oct 2002 · 4 yrs 5 mos
San Francisco Bay Area
Sold BridgePath, a San Francisco based enterprise software company, to Bullhorn.
VP Engineering
Human Ingenuity
Jun 1997 - Jun 1998 · 1 yr 1 mo
Coding 17 hours every day
CTO and co-founder
Kyber Systems
Jul 1995 - Jun 1997 · 2 yrs
San Francisco Bay Area
Intranet consulting company (sold to Human Ingenuity). Started business while in college.
Coding 18 hours every day
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Auren Hoffman is the CEO of the startup incubator NQB8, a General Partner at Flex Capital, and the former founder and CEO of the marketing data platform LiveRamp. He is also the Chairman of SafeGraph, a geospatial data firm backed by prominent investors like Peter Thiel. [1, 2, 3]
Auren Hoffman co-founded LiveRamp in 2011 (originally spun out of RapLeaf) and grew the company before it was sold to Acxiom. He has since founded or backed over 100 startups and is a highly active venture capitalist and angel investor in the Silicon Valley ecosystem. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]