Auren Hoffman

Auren Hoffman is the CEO of SafeGraph, which provides point-of-interest data, business listings and store visitor insight. They build truth sets for machine learning, deep learning, and AI. SafeGraph focuses on truth data around geospatial, places, points of interest and human movement.

Prior to SafeGraph, he was the co-founder and CEO of LiveRamp. LiveRamp helps companies learn more about their customers to provide their consumers with a more personalized experience. LiveRamp analyzes data on over 400 million consumers worldwide.

He is also a non-employee co-founder of BrightRoll and Retargeter.com. Mr. Hoffman was formerly Chair of Stonebrick Group and the Connector Group. 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).

He is the founder of the Dialog Retreat. He's an active angel investor or advisor in over 30 companies including: Aardvark, Backtype, BeatLab, Blip.TV, Chomp, Crave, CrowdFlower, Euclid, Factual, Flowtown, Founders Fund, GroupeBuy, GroupOn, Huddler, Klout, Kontagent, LabPixies, Logik Systems, Meebo, MesmoTV, OtherInbox, Play Megaphone, Proclivity Systems, RichRelevance, SelectOut, Sharethrough, Solve Media, Thumbtack, Viglink, WorkersNow, Zoom Systems, Zozi, and more.