Auren Hoffman

Auren Hoffman

SafeGraph

About

Role

CEO

Type

Full-time operator, Angel

Bio

Auren is CEO of SafeGraph: the place for data about physical places.

Auren is the former cofounder and CEO of LiveRamp -- the largest middleware company that connects marketing applications. LiveRamp was acquired by Acxiom in 2014 for $310 million. LiveRamp was formerly named Rapleaf. LiveRamp now is public company (NYSE:RAMP).

He is the Chairman and co-founder (with Peter Thiel) of the Dialog Retreat. He is also Board Member of Datavant. He serves as General Partner in Flex Capital.\n\nAuren is an angel investor in over 120 technology companies. He holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley.

About Investments

Auren most often invests in SaaS, data, healthcare, developer tools, and advertising.

Investments

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B and beyond

Check Range

$100K

Geography

Global

Leads Rounds

Sometimes

Investment Highlights

Airbyte, BrightRoll, Carta, Clearbit, Crunchbase, Dataminr, Datavant, Emailage, G2, Gorgias, Marqeta, Qualia, SecondMeasure, Superhuman, Thumbtack, TrueWork

Get in touch

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Disclaimers and footnotes

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