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Auren Hoffman

NQB8 CEO. GP, Flex Capital. EliotNest. SafeGraph Chairman. fmr LiveRamp CEO. podcast: World of DaaS

Arlington, Virginia

Work Experience

2025

  • CEO

    2025

  • General Partner

    2018

    $200M seed stage venture firm. We invest $300k to $1M in ambitious founders building generational tech companies and invest in ~2 companies per week. 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.

2006

  • Chairman

    2006

2016

  • Chairperson

    2025

  • CEO

    2016 - 2024

    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.

  • Member

    2024

    private membership community for the world’s top 200 data executives. worldofdaas.com

2025

  • Co-Founder

    2025

2025

  • Member

    2025

2019 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2019 - 2022

2006 - 2015

  • CEO and cofounder

    2006 - 2015

    LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) is largest middleware company that connects marketing applications. (LiveRamp was formerly named Rapleaf)

2013 - 2014

  • 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.

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