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Auren Hoffman
Founder of TitleDock
Arlington, Virginia
Overview
Auren Hoffman is the CEO of SafeGraph and a General Partner at Flex Capital, with previous notable roles as the CEO of LiveRamp and as the host of the "World of DaaS" podcast. He has made significant investments in companies like G2, Turing.com, and Calypso AI, showcasing his expertise in Series A, Series B, and Series D funding rounds across various sectors such as AI, SaaS, and data services.
Work Experience
Host
2021 - Current
CEO and Chief Historian
2016
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.
SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI.
Raised $61,000,000.00 from Akkadian Ventures.
General Partner
2018
$200M Venture Capital Firm. Investor Atlan, Carta, Chia, Commsor, Crossbeam, Crunchbase, Datavant, Dataminr, G2, Gorgias, Juniper Square, Lemonaid Health, Lunchclub, Marqeta, Memo, MikMak, mParticle, OneSignal, Qualia, People Data Labs, Replica, Retain.ai, Retool, Streamlit, Superhuman, Threads, Truework, Vartana, Vercel, and more.
Flex Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage companies that helps to grow their businesses.
Chairman
2006
cofounder and first customer
2021
Titledock is a cross-platform contact manager that helps manage contacts and relationship data across any device.
Board Member
2019
Datavant protects, connects, and delivers the world’s health data to power better decisions and advance human health.
Raised $80,500,000.00 from Roivant Sciences, Transformation Capital, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Flex Capital, Octave and Cigna Ventures.
CEO and cofounder
2006 - 2015
LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) is largest middleware company that connects marketing applications. (LiveRamp was formerly named Rapleaf)
LiveRamp aspires to make it safe and easy for companies to use data effectively.
Raised $16,000,000.00 from Rembrandt Venture Partners, yet2Ventures and DNX Ventures.
Board Member
2013 - 2014
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
2003 - 2006
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CEO
1998 - 2002
Sold BridgePath, a San Francisco based enterprise software company, to Bullhorn.
Education
BSE
1992 - 1996
Investments
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