Aaref Hilaly
@aaref
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First a Founder, then a CEO, now @BainCapVC focused on AI seed & Series A. Helping out at @DecagonAI, @ContextualAI, @evenuplaw, @felt, @krea_ai & others.
SF Bay Area
Joined June 2008
We just backed @krea_ai, one of the most delightful GenAI image creation platforms. Why?. 🎨 Gives creators superpowers.⚡ Built for pros—fast, flexible, personal.🚀 A team with taste + wild velocity. More below 👇.
Krea is providing creatives with a powerful app layer for design with the world's AI models. Co-founders Victor & Diego are brilliant coders, students of the design craft, artists and streetwear enthusiasts. We're enthusiastic to lead this round & continue to share POV on where.
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RT @slaterstich: Very excited to share our interview with @jaschasd on the history of diffusion models — from his original 2015 paper inven….
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Talent is everything in venture investing. Thanks to @kevinzhang, we met Han when he was in college and instantly knew we had to work with him. Amazing (but unsurprising) to see the incredible product and business he’s built since.
Thank you to @BainCapVC for being an amazing partner in our journey through it all. I am certain that we wouldn't have gotten to where I am today without their support and guidance. Especially to @kevinzhang who's been there since day 0.
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True then, even more true now (post R1).
"How many models will end up dominating and winning?. Probably 5-6. Like the airlines. Like airlines, they'll compete at being good at slightly different things." @aaref @BainCapital + @JD_Weinstein
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RT @jaredstaylor: 🔥 I had a fascinating interview with @aaref Hilaly (Partner at @BainCapVC) that completely changed how I think about AI i….
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Privileged to support the journey.
Beyond excited to announce Decagon's $65M Series B led by @aaref from Bain Capital Ventures, with @eladgil, A*, Accel, BOND Capital, and more. 🎉. This brings our total funding at @DecagonAI to $100m. Huge thank you to everyone who continues to support us!
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We're watching @aaref live onstage at @theinformation's AI Summit. "What we're close to is reasoning. Beyond that, I think agents follow very rapidly. Put that together [with tooling] and we'll open up all sorts of new possibilities." . #sfaisummit.
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Love watching our “seed stage” companies quickly outgrow the label!.
Congratulations to @handotdev, @hahnbeeIee, and the @mintlify team on your Series A today!. It's no longer possible to be a leading company without top-tier developer communications, and Mintlify is the modern standard for documentation. To celebrate the occasion, I'm setting my.
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Incredible energy at @stepconference - impressed by the commitment and creativity of the founders here.
BCV partner @aaref is on stage at @stepconference sharing AI tech trends and how to navigate the AI investment landscape.
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So great to see @evenuplaw get the recognition it deserves — company has made incredible progress. Grateful to Rami, Saam & Ray for allowing us to support their journey.
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16 mo ago, @ContextualAI got started, working from BCV Labs. Today, it's a killer team w/ an enterprise LLM platform that's in production in some huge companies. Kudos @douwekiela, @apsdehal & team - A+ execution. We're thrilled to double down!
reuters.com
Contextual AI, a startup that sells a tool to improve the performance of artificial intelligence models, raised $80 million through a Series A funding, the company told Reuters.
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So much entrepreneurial talent in/from Pakistan - looking forward to this!.
Extremely excited to host @aaref , Partner @BainCapVC , as a guest speaker at the Paklaunch UNConference ‘24.2 in Palo Alto, CA on the 3rd and 4th of October. Bain Capital Ventures partners with disruptive founders to accelerate their ideas to market.
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The best part of our job at @BainCapVC is getting to work with amazing founders like @ksshams & @dymxzvf. Excited for the next chapter!.
We’ve learned so much from @aaref and his hands on experience as a seasoned entrepreneur. The whole team at @BainCapVC has been instrumental in our journey. Thank you for being incredible partners and for making the bet on us (again) 💚💚🚀🚀.
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Props to @thejessezhang, @AshwinSreenivas & Team @DecagonAI. Sometimes you don't need a super original idea, you just need A+ execution -- which is often much more difficult.
businessinsider.com
AI startup Decagon develops AI agents to automate customer support for enterprise customers.
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There's no substitute for user love.
I've been working a lot with geodata on @felt lately and from my perspective as a long-time GIS user my view is:. - it's excellent.- it's handles any data format and allows you to get on with the important work.- it's ready for widespread adoption .
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Day 1 in @BainCapVC's new HQ in Jackson Square has been a blast! So great to have space for the whole team
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4th company I've worked on w/ @kdshah & 2nd w/ @vibhav. Exceptional founders & human beings. So grateful they chose to incubate with @EnriqueSalem, @rak_garg & me at BCV Labs.
baincapitalventures.com
Bain Capital Ventures helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.
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GenAI will have a huge impact on security, starting in the SoC. Analysts are overwhelmed. it takes an army to keep up! Enter @ProphetSec, which provides that army -- of AI agents.
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We didn't think it was possible to extend dog lifespan. Then we met @celinehalioua and she convinced us. That's what great founders do.
hey guess what. we've raised another $45M to extend dog lifespan, led by Bain Capital Ventures (@kevinzhang @ChristinaPhili5 @alysaaco). bringing total $ raised since I started Loyal 4.5 years ago to $125M.
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2023: RAG vs no RAG.2024: RAG 2.0 vs frozen RAG. As AI moves into production, simple RAG systems are not enough. @douwekiela & @ContextualAI show that with data.
Today, we’re excited to announce RAG 2.0, our end-to-end system for developing production-grade AI. Using RAG 2.0, we’ve created Contextual Language Models (CLMs), which achieve state-of-the-art performance on a variety of industry benchmarks. CLMs outperform strong RAG
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