aaref hilaly
Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
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Bain Capital Ventures
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-capital-ventures
Partner
BCV helps technical founders build businesses around their ideas. We invest early (seed / Series A), and commit -- working closely with founders on recruiting, early customers, messaging, launch and scale. Our team brings deep domain expertise in AI-powered apps, machine learning, cloud infrastructure, fin-tech, commerce-tech and more, and taps the unique network and portfolio of Bain Capital.
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Felt
https://www.linkedin.com/company/feltmaps
Seed Investor + Board Member
Felt is a simple, delightful, browser-first mapping app that lets its users think in maps. With Felt, anyone can create a beautiful map within five minutes through pre-built templates and easy-to-access data sets, and then share them publicly or privately. Sign up for the private beta at www.felt.com.
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Recharge Payments
https://www.linkedin.com/company/recharge-payments
Series B Investor + Board Observer
ReCharge is the leading provider of subscription management software for e-commerce. It enables online sellers to turn transactions into relationships with their most valuable customers. As of May 2021, the company had 15,000 customers and 20 million subscribers across 180 countries on its platform.
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Truera
https://www.linkedin.com/company/truera
Seed Investor + Board Member
Truera helps data science teams improve model quality and build trust in AI. Based on six years of research at Carnegie Mellon University, it provides visibility into how neural networks and other AI models work, improving performance and fighting unfair bias.
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Clari
https://www.linkedin.com/company/clari
Seed & Series A Investor + Board Member
Clari's revenue operations platform has become the way many sales leaders run their business. It complements Salesforce to provide actionable forecasts, pipeline management and activity intelligence.
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LightStep
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightstep
Series B Investor + Board Member
LightStep provides observability into deep systems. It breaks down the false distinction between "metrics", "logging" and "tracing" to provide a single integrated view into what matters, so engineering and ops teams can manage distributed apps. In 2021, the company was acquired by ServiceNow.
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Guardant Health
https://www.linkedin.com/company/guardanthealth
Series A Investor + Board Member
Guardant Health is a precision oncology company that's conquering cancer with data. The company went public in October 2018 (NASDAQ: GH) and is presently valued at over $10 billion.
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ThousandEyes
https://www.linkedin.com/company/thousandeyes
Series A Investor + Board Member
ThousandEyes provides a "Google Maps for network traffic", enabling ops teams to deliver better digital experiences. The company was acquired by Cisco for ~$1 billion in 2020.
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Sequoia Capital
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sequoia
Partner
Sequoia is dedicated to giving mission-driven founders the edge they need to build transformative companies. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs push the boundaries of what is possible. In partnering with Sequoia, companies benefit from the skills and lessons we’ve learned working with the founders of Apple, Oracle, Cisco, Yahoo, Google, PayPal, LinkedIn, Palo Alto Networks, Dropbox, AirBnB, ServiceNow, WhatsApp, Square, and many others. Some examples of the companies I work with are below.
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Symantec
https://www.linkedin.com/company/symantec
Vice President, Engineering
Symantec helps consumers and organizations secure and manage their information.
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Clearwell Systems
https://www.linkedin.com/company/clearwell-systems
President & CEO
Led company from the early stages of product development to its acquisition by Symantec for $410 million in 2011. Clearwell's SaaS analytics application transformed the way corporations and government agencies perform electronic discovery of email and documents. At the time of its acquisition, Clearwell's revenue run-rate was over $100 million, and the company had been profitable for the prior 10 consecutive quarters.
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CenterRun
Founder & CEO
Led company from inception to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2003 for $66M. CenterRun pioneered data center automation, and later formed the basis of Sun's N1 product suite.
MBA
Harvard Business School
https://www.linkedin.com/school/harvard-business-school/
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Economics
MA
McGill University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/mcgill-university/
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Philosophy, Politics & Economics
BA
University of Oxford
https://www.linkedin.com/school/oxforduni/
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Christina Melas-Kyriazi
Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay1agarwal
Ajay Agarwal
Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
Palo Alto, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samcrowder
Sam Crowder
VC at Bain Capital Ventures
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-williams-895296b0
Jeff Williams
Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinzhang711
Kevin Zhang
Partner at Bain Capital Ventures & Crypto
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawit-heck-b49a9212b
Dawit Heck
Investor at Bain Capital Ventures
New York, NY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascal-croak-86a883aa
Pascal Croak
Investor at Bain Capital Ventures
New York, NY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushisinhahaha
Ayushi Sinha
Investor @ Bain Capital Ventures
New York, NY
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/hkanji
Hussein Kanji
Early stage venture capitalist
London
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakgarg
Rak Garg
VC at Bain Capital Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandazajac
Amanda Zajac
Investor at Bain Capital Ventures
Boston, MA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahbreslow
Noah Breslow
Operating Partner at Bain Capital Ventures / 
Former Chairman & CEO at OnDeck (NYSE: ONDK)
New York, NY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimleang-svay-33a60316
Kimleang Svay
Bain Capital Ventures
Boston, MA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeeza-cole-014007134
Zeeza Cole
Principal at Bain Capital Ventures
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aatifawan
Aatif Awan
Founder & Managing Partner at Indus Valley Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcharris
Matt Harris
Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
New York, NY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danscheinman
Dan Scheinman
Angel Investor in Enterprise Tech
San Mateo, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravimhatre
Ravi Mhatre
Founder, Managing Director, Lightspeed Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pemckay
Peter McKay
CEO Snyk
Greater Boston
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikespeiser
Mike Speiser
Sutter Hill Ventures
United States
Ming Chen
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aaref and I (together with Martin Escobar) were a crack-pot team (they were crack, I was pot) for our real estate project at HBS.  I totally forgot the topic we presented but I totally remember Aaref's smarts, good humor, and all round team player-ness. Durga P Pandey
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aaref is easily the most inspiring CEO I have worked for. I learnt immensely just by watching him in action taking the company to profitability and beyond while creating a really fun, kickass workplace. A really nice, sharp as a knife, down-to-earth, awesome guy who knew and connected with every single employee in the company and inspired us to excel. Much loved and respected by all.
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The main reason why I’ve joined TruEra is to help companies deploy robust and trustworthy AI solutions at scale. In just two years, we have helped…
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Big milestone for TruEra. Aside from funding, we add a board member in Tim Tully who deeply understands this domain. Congrats to William Uppington…
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Sequoia Capital
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Cloud Computing
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Harvard Business School Alumni (Official)
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CEOs Forum
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1786920
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Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, SaaS, Data Centre & Virtualization
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