Auren HoffmanFounder

United States - Arlington, Virginia

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.

Non-employee cofounder: Windfall Data, CredPR, Ultrarev, Agenteur, TitleDock

Auren was the first investor and served on the board of BrightRoll (acquired by Yahoo for $640 million).

Previously, Auren was Chairman of Stonebrick Group, CEO of BridgePath (sold in 2002), and CTO of Kyber Systems (sold in 1997).

Auren is an angel investor in over 180 technology companies. He holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley.

See his blog: https://summation.net

investor in:
1Life Medical, Aardvark (Google), Agenteur, Airbyte, Awning, Backtype (Twitter), Beeswax (Comcast), Brightroll (Yahoo), Broadly, BounceX, Cal.com, Carta, Chameleon, Chomp (Apple), Circulate (LiveRamp), Clearbit, Clubhouse Software, CodeFights, Command E, Commsor, CredPR, Crossbeam, Crunchbase, Cuebiq, Data Mechanics, Dataminr, Datavant, Deduce, Dig Wells, Dynamic Yield (McDonald's), Edify, Emailage (LexisNexis), Engagio (Demandbase), Facet Wealth, Factual (FourSquare), Figure Eight (Appen), Flowtown (Demandforce), Forward, G2, Gigster, GoodRec (GroupOn), Gorgias, Hackpad (Dropbox), Humi, Improvado, InCountry, Industry Report, Influitive, Intentomatic, Jumpcloud, Juniper Square, Kaggle (Google), Klout (Lithium), LabPixies (Google), Lemonaid Health, Logik Systems, LunchClub, MaestroQA, Marqeta, Meebo (Google), Memo, Mercury.co, Merit/Sigma, MikMak, mParticle, Neutronian, OneSignal, OtherInbox (ReturnPath), OverClk, Qualia, Peerwell, People Data Labs, Pingboard, Plato, Point, Potential Energy Labs, PredictLeads, RainforestQA, Red Planet Labs, Rentlytics (RealPage), Retain.ai, Rill Data, Rizio/Voiceia (Cisco), RoboFlow, Rubicon Global, SambaTV, Scopely, Second Measure (Bloomberg), Sense Inc. (Google), Stackblitz, Streamlit, Superhuman, Threads, Thumbtack, Tonic AI, TravelJoy, TrueWork, Turing, TXN (Envestment), Unbounce, WhiteOps (Goldman Sachs), Windfall Data, Woflow, WorkPatterns, Vercel, ZecOps, and more.