Aaref Hilaly

Background

Aaref Hilaly is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures working with early-stage founders leveraging AI to solve previously unaddressed problems. He co-founded CenterRun (early exit) and Clearwell (grew to $100M revenue before exit), and spent seven years as a Partner at Sequoia Capital. Originally from Pakistan and raised in England, he brings entrepreneurial experience to post-investment portfolio support.

Investment Focus

Notable Investments

Cognition

AI coding agent Devin

Decagon

AI customer support agents

Contextual AI

RAG for enterprise