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Auren Hoffman

Auren Hoffman is CEO of Rapleaf.

Auren was formerly Chair of Stonebrick Group and the Connector Group. He’s a non-employee cofounder of BrightRoll.

Previously, he founded and sold three Internet companies: BridgePath (sold in 2002), Kyber Systems (sold in 1997), and GetRelevant (sold in 2002).

Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.

Milestones

  • Invested in Sofa Labs. (9/1/09)
    Posted 9/3/09 at 11:03am
  • Invested in AdRocket. (5/15/09)
    Posted 8/26/08 at 2:03pm
  • Invested in CrowdFlower. (2009)
    Posted 10/12/09 at 7:24am
  • Invested in OtherInbox. (7/08)
    Posted 8/2/08 at 12:02pm
  • Invested in Goodrec. (3/08)
    Posted 8/28/08 at 10:17am
  • Invested in Project Playlist. (9/1/07)
    Posted 11/15/07 at 11:34am
  • Invested in BrightRoll. (11/1/06)
    Posted 11/9/07 at 6:53am
  • Added position as Angel Investor at Huddler.
    Posted 12/18/08 at 11:20am
  • Added position as CEO at Rapleaf.
    Posted 6/23/09 at 4:36pm
  • Added position as Investor/Advisor at CrowdFlower.
    Posted 9/12/09 at 10:57am

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Sofa Labs 9/09Series A$1.2M11
AdRocket 5/09Seed$1M6
CrowdFlower 2009Unattributed$1.2M8
OtherInbox 7/08Angel4
Goodrec 3/08Seed$1.1M7
Project Playlist 9/07Series A$3M3
BrightRoll 11/06Series A2

Sources

  1. Thread.com Raises $1.2 Million For Facebook-Powered Matchmaking Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  3. Crowdflower Communication [edit]
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  7. techcrunch.com [edit]

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