About Auren Hoffman

Auren Hoffman is an angel investor who generally invests 25k in young, emerging companies with a focus on the companies with strong technical team<br />s. Hoffman aims to assist portfolio companies through efforts and expertise focused on helping companies raise money, with legal processes and with technology. Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf. Rapleaf helps B2C companies give their consumers a better experience by providing automated search services for each consumer Auren is also a non-employee cofounder of BrightRoll and a co-founder of AdRocket.<br /><br />From 2003-2006, Auren served as Chairman of Stonebrick Group and Chairman of the Connector Group (Silicon Valley 100). Previously, he founded and sold three Internet companies before age 30: BridgePath (sold in 2002), Kyber Systems (sold in 1997), and GetRelevant (sold in 2002).<br /><br />He is the founder of the Dialog Retreat. He's an active angel investor or advisor in: Aardvark, AdCopy, Blip.TV, Chomp, CrowdFlower, Delicious Brands, Flowtown, GoodRec, Grouply, Huddler, Klout, Kontagent, LabPixies, Lefora, Logik Systems, Meebo, MesmoTV, Offbeat Guides, OtherInbox, Playlist, Play Megaphone, Playtaki, Proclivity Systems, RichRelevance, Sharethrough, Structural Wealth Management, Thread.com, VoxPop.tv, Zoom Systems, and more. Auren served as an official election observer in Ukraine (2004) and the Republic of Georgia (2003).<br /><br />Auren holds a B.S.E.in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.