Aaref Hilaly

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 13 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
13
Total investments
4
Early stage
1
Mid stage
0
Late stage
14y
Years active

Portfolio

13 investments · sorted by recency
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Series B Investor
2026
The helpful home robot company
Series C Investor
2025
Makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We’re building collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower engineering teams to strive for more ambitious goals.
Series B Investor + Board Member
2025
Series A & B Investor
2025
Simile is the simulation company, built for leading enterprises. We support world class customers like Gallup, CVS, Wealthfront and Suntory to accelerate growth, shorten innovation cycles, and derisk decisions. Backed by Index, Hanabi, BCV and A* along with angels including Fei‑Fei Li, Andrej Karpathy, Adam D’Angelo, Guillermo Rauch, Scott Belsky, and others. Simile is the trusted partner for modernizing enterprise decision making.
Seed & Series A Investor + Board Member
2024
Our innovative AI chart review software leverages cutting-edge technology to revolutionize healthcare by seamlessly integrating advanced AI with physician and industry expertise. We specialize in accurately identifying hidden revenue opportunities, conducting thorough automated audits to ensure regulatory compliance, and delivering valuable clinical insights that improve patient care and outcomes. Our team of medical doctors, certified coders, and compliance experts bring their specialized knowledge and experience to enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of our AI-driven approach. By significantly reducing labor costs, our solution empowers your organization to reallocate resources towards more meaningful projects and initiatives that have long needed attention. This enhances operational efficiency and fosters a culture of continuous improvement and quality care.
Series B & D investor + Board Member
2023
EvenUp is the leading proactive AI platform for personal injury law, the first of its kind, built on the largest personal injury dataset. Trusted by 2,000+ firms, EvenUp helps legal teams run casework like clockwork—drafting documents, automating workflows, and maximizing the outcome of every case from intake to resolution.
Seed & Series B investor + Board Member
2023
Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experience. Our AI agents provide intelligent, human-like responses across chat, email, and voice, resolving millions of customer inquiries across every language and at any time. We partner with industry leaders like Hertz, Eventbrite, Duolingo, Oura, Bilt, Curology, and Samsara to redefine customer experience at scale. Decagon is backed by Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, BOND, A*, Elad Gil, and the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, and more.
Seed Investor + Board Member
2023
Contextual AI is the leader in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Founded by the pioneers of RAG, Contextual AI’s mission is to change the way the world works through AI. The Contextual AI platform empowers enterprises to build specialized RAG agents for expert knowledge work. Fortune 500 companies, such as HSBC and Qualcomm, rely on Contextual AI to boost productivity for thousands of their subject-matter experts. You can learn more and explore open roles at contextual.ai
Seed Investor + Board Member
2022
Pioneered at MIT and proven at Fortune 500 companies, Cleanlab provides the worlds most popular Data-Centric AI software. Automatically curate Data/Knowledge and ensure trusted LLM Responses -- the fastest path to reliable AI.
Seed Investor + Board Member
2021
We are a diverse team helping developers build highly performant and reliable applications via serverless distributed systems. We are looking for passionate and talented engineers and developer advocates who can help us get there. If our mission inspires you, we would love to talk.
Seed Investor + Board Member
2021
At Felt, we’re creating the best place to make maps on the internet. Weve reimagined whats possible with GIS technology by bringing the entire spatial stack into the browser and making it simple to deploy map tooling your whole team loves to use. Founded by Sam Hashemi, Felt puts design at the center of the user experience so every interaction is intuitive, delightful and performant. Whether your team is working with spreadsheets on the desktop or streaming terabytes from cloud sources, Felt makes it simple to build and deploy the maps, apps and dashboards that drive your business forward. Sign up today and join the growing community of innovators whove discovered the power of Felt.
Founding Investor and Board Member
May 2019
TruEra provides AI Quality solutions to help enterprises analyze machine learning, improve model quality and build trust. Powered by enterprise-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) Explainability technology based on six years of research at Carnegie Mellon University, TruEra’s suite of AI Quality solutions help eliminate the black box surrounding widely used AI and ML technologies. This visibility leads to higher quality, explainable models that achieve measurable business results, address unfair bias, and ensure governance and compliance.
Seed & Series A Investor + Board Member
2012
Together, Clari and Salesloft create a category-transforming AI company for revenue, building the foundation for a Predictive Revenue System — a system that guides revenue teams to accelerate growth. The company combines the broadest dataset, capturing both structured and unstructured signals. End-to-end revenue orchestration capabilities unlock new levels of AI-driven productivity and predictability. Thousands of the world’s most successful companies — including Adobe, IBM, 3M, and Zoom — trust Clari and Salesloft to drive predictable revenue growth. Welcome to the future of revenue.
Experience · 17 entries
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Investments (13)
Founder (1)
Board (10)
2026
Series B Investor
2026
The helpful home robot company
2025
Series C Investor
2025
Makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We’re building collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower engineering teams to strive for more ambitious goals.
Series B Investor + Board Member
2025
Series A & B Investor
2025
Simile is the simulation company, built for leading enterprises. We support world class customers like Gallup, CVS, Wealthfront and Suntory to accelerate growth, shorten innovation cycles, and derisk decisions. Backed by Index, Hanabi, BCV and A* along with angels including Fei‑Fei Li, Andrej Karpathy, Adam D’Angelo, Guillermo Rauch, Scott Belsky, and others. Simile is the trusted partner for modernizing enterprise decision making.
2024
Seed & Series A Investor + Board Member
2024
Our innovative AI chart review software leverages cutting-edge technology to revolutionize healthcare by seamlessly integrating advanced AI with physician and industry expertise. We specialize in accurately identifying hidden revenue opportunities, conducting thorough automated audits to ensure regulatory compliance, and delivering valuable clinical insights that improve patient care and outcomes. Our team of medical doctors, certified coders, and compliance experts bring their specialized knowledge and experience to enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of our AI-driven approach. By significantly reducing labor costs, our solution empowers your organization to reallocate resources towards more meaningful projects and initiatives that have long needed attention. This enhances operational efficiency and fosters a culture of continuous improvement and quality care.
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