Aaref Hilaly is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures where he invests from Seed through later stages (Series A–E) across AI (apps and infrastructure), enterprise, internet, mobile, commerce, fintech, healthcare, industrials, and security. He invests primarily in the United States, with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area and the West Coast. He serves on the boards of krea.ai, Charta Health, Decagon, EvenUp, and Contextual AI, and has invested in companies like Cognition, krea.ai, Charta Health, Decagon, and EvenUp. Before Bain Capital Ventures, he was a Partner at Sequoia Capital; earlier, he was Vice President of Engineering at Symantec and President & CEO of Clearwell Systems. Aaref holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA in Economics from McGill University, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Oxford, and he lives in San Francisco, California.
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