Auren Hoffman
General Partner @ Flex Capital
San Francisco, United States
Auren Hoffman is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and executive. He is General Partner at Flex Capital, CEO of NQB8, and Co-founder of Aerdos and EliotNest. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of LiveRamp and founded SafeGraph. Hoffman attended the University of California, Berkeley and has made numerous investments in technology companies.
- Total investments:
- 140
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
Last updated:
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Industries Auren Hoffman invests in
Stages Auren Hoffman invests in
Countries Auren Hoffman invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $750k–$7M
- Series A
- $1M–$25M
- Series B
- $5M–$157M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 44 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 21 (15%)
- Analytics 20 (14%)
- Information Technology 20 (14%)
- Internet 18 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 64 (46%)
- Series A 30 (21%)
- Series B 8 (6%)
- Angel 5 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (4%)
Country
- United States 102 (73%)
- Canada 4 (3%)
- Israel 3 (2%)
- France 1 (1%)
- Slovenia 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Protege is an AI training data platform that connects data holders with vetted data users. | $30M / Series A / Jan 07, 2026 | ||
| Protege is an AI training data platform that connects data holders with vetted data users. | $25M / Series A / Aug 13, 2025 | ||
| Heron Data provides infrastructure that enables financial institutions and fintech companies to analyze business bank transactions and extract structured insights. The company focuses on automating underwriting and financial analysis by transforming raw transaction data into standardized, machine-readable formats. Its software integrates withvarious data sources to classify, enrich, and label transaction streams, helping teams make faster and more informed credit decisions. Heron Data serves lenders, neobanks, and other financial platforms that require scalable and accurate transaction data analysis. The platform also offers tools for understanding cash flow, detecting financial risk, and tracking business health over time. Through these capabilities, Heron Data helps financial teams streamline operations and reduce manual review workloads. | $16.6M / Series A / Jul 15, 2025 | ||
| Turnstile is an all-in-one revenue automation platform that streamlines quoting, subscription management, billing and revenue recognition. | $22.8M / Series A / Jun 09, 2025 | ||
| Automate phone calls with AI | $17M / Series A / Jun 05, 2025 | ||
| Mercury Technologies is a technology-enabled company that provides banking services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company services provide bank accounts designed specifically for startups, combining FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts with tech tools. Immad Akhund, Max Tagher, and Jason Zhang founded the company. | $300M / Series C / Mar 26, 2025 | ||
| Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence. | $500M / Series D / Dec 18, 2024 | ||
| AI meets Healthcare Operations Coming soon | $6.3M / Seed / Oct 31, 2024 | ||
| Outerport allows companies to use fewer GPUs by facilitating easy task switching, enabling multiple AI models on one GPU. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 25, 2024 | ||
| Protege is an AI training data platform that connects data holders with vetted data users. | $10M / Seed / Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| See all 140 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Flex Capital
Flex Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm backing world-class founders at the pre-seed and seed stages. We write initial checks between $200K and $2M, with significant reserves from our $200M committed capital to support our companies in future rounds. Founded and led by serial entrepreneurs, Flex is capital for founders, by founders. Our team includes the founding CEOs of companies like LiveRamp, Brightroll, Lemonaid Health, SafeGraph, and Pipedream. We know what it’s like to build from zero—and we show up for our founders with conviction, speed, and long-term commitment. We don’t burden entrepreneurs with unnecessary overhead or legal complexity. We pledge our voting shares back to founders and never give up on the companies we back. We make decisions quickly—usually within a week—and actively help our portfolio raise follow-on capital, close customers, and access strategic angels. Flex is a generalist firm, open-minded by design and focused on bold visions that push the boundaries of what’s technically possible.
Flex Capital Contacts
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Auren Hoffman
General Partner
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David Hahn
Limited Partner & Investor
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Paul Johnson
General Partner
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Tod Sacerdoti
Founder, General Partner
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FAQ
What does Auren Hoffman invest in?
Auren Hoffman invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 140 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Auren Hoffman invest in?
Auren Hoffman typically joins rounds of $750k–$7M at Seed, $1M–$25M at Series A and $5M–$157M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Auren Hoffman's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Auren Hoffman took part in.
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When did Auren Hoffman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Auren Hoffman closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 140 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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