For venture capital and private equity dealmakers, Affinity is a relationship-intelligence CRM that uses AI to map professional networks and manage deal flow across the firm.
Presence & Market Position
Tracked · below panel floor — earned mentions are accruing toward the next scored window.
Measures earned, engagement-weighted share of voice across the GTM voices panel. Methodology →
Affinity has spent over a decade positioned as the relationship-intelligence system of record for private capital deal teams, the CRM built to populate itself from a firm's own email and calendar rather than require manual logging. In mid 2026 the company rebranded its entire identity around an agent platform, Ascend, extending its position from a passive record to an active layer that preps meetings, maps introductions and keeps deal data current, reachable directly inside Affinity or through outside AI environments such as Claude and ChatGPT. Tracked conversation about the brand is still early, consistent with a company mid-transition from an established category name into a new one it is trying to define for itself.
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Outreach
SalesloftBlackRock, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Intel Capital, Sapphire Ventures, OMERS, Balderton Capital, 8VC
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Business Profile
Affinity was founded in 2014 in San Francisco to replace the manually logged CRM with software that builds itself from a firm's email and calendar, and it has spent a decade selling that idea into venture, growth and private equity deal teams reportedly numbering over 3,300 firms. The company has raised $120M and employs roughly 325 people, still operating independently more than a decade in. In July 2026, Affinity rebranded the whole company around Ascend, its new agent platform, positioning the firm as an AI-native player in the private capital software category it already served rather than adding agents as a bolt-on feature.
Agent Readiness
Measures how easily your agents can build on it — API, MCP, CLI, SDK, docs depth. Methodology →
Affinity ships both an API and an MCP server, with permissioned read-only or read-write access, so that Claude, ChatGPT and custom AI environments can query the same relationship graph the product runs on. On top of that infrastructure sits Ascend, an agent platform launched in July 2026 with named agents scoped to specific workflows: meeting prep, warm-introduction mapping and keeping CRM records current, rather than one general assistant. The build-out reads as workflow-specific agents layered on an already-open data surface.
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