Is Affinity or DealCloud right for your team?
Why DealCloud isn’t enough
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers. Building enduring business relationships starts with having access to insights that close deals and the freedom from manual data entry that comes with accurate, automatically captured data. Give your team time to focus on building relationships and closing deals.
With Affinity:
Achieve faster time to value with a 72-hour implementation.
Discover who matters most, surface meaningful connections, and turn relationship data into a competitive advantage for dealmaking.
Automatically capture key takeaways and full transcripts from every meeting, synced seamlessly to the CRM.
Affinity vs. DealCloud
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Single source of truth
Organize and manage records, monitor deal sourcing, and track your team’s most valuable connections in a centralized CRM.
Relationship intelligence
Uncover high-impact relationships and gain actionable insights you need to close more deals.
Automated data capture
Instantly surface all historical interactions with people and companies from across your firm.
Deal sourcing
Provide a data-driven pathway to expand your deal pipeline beyond your existing network.
Data enrichment
Automatically enrich every company and contact profile with a dataset powered by Affinity and 40+ trusted sources including Pitchbook and Dealroom.
Deal flow management
Enable pipeline management for sophisticated, long-term dealmaking with familiar list- and Kanban-style views of your active deals.
Reporting and analytics
Easily unearth real-time insights and drill into trends by building custom reporting dashboards using Looker—an industry-leading business intelligence and analytics platform.
Deal assistance
Review and process meeting notes and email attachments to answer deal-related questions.
Similar companies
Generate lists of comparable companies based on the profile being viewed in the CRM.
Native call recording
Generate structured summaries and transcripts of meetings, with automatic syncing to relevant people and organizations in the CRM.
Ease of use
Navigate the CRM and complete tasks using an intuitive interface—no technical support required.
Fast time to value
Deploy your entire CRM platform in as little as 72 hours.
Onboarding support
Focus on driving opportunities, not learning or teaching others to use a complex system.
Security
Be supported by a dedicated CISO and security team focused on preventing, detecting, and responding to security threats across system operations.
Compliance
Rely on a system that meets certification against stringent global standards—including ISO 27001, ISO 27018, ISO 27019, ISO 27701, and SOC2 Type 2.
Constant vulnerability testing
Benefit from proactive CRM security measures that continuously identify and address potential weaknesses, helping safeguard sensitive customer information.
Frequently Asked Questions
DealCloud may have built a strong reputation as part of the last generation of customer relationship management solutions for investors, but the future of capital markets CRM software lies with AI-powered communication capture and easy-to-access relationship intelligence. Affinity not only supports your deal and relationship management, it improves it.
Affinity’s relationship intelligence CRM is purpose-built for relationship-driven investment teams. It enables those teams to leverage their personal networks to find, manage, and close deals faster—all with software that every team member will find easy to use.
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Affinity is easy to use and rich with insights that drive faster, confident decision-making. Private capital dealmakers use Affinity’s relationship intelligence to differentiate themselves from the competition, including using their team’s network, business connections, and client interactions to drive engagement and help them find, manage, and close high-quality deals more efficiently.
Relationship-driven deal teams that choose Affinity focus their time on building relationships that become their most lucrative deals because their data exhaust—details automatically captured from email communications, meetings, and contact information such as names, roles, industry, and source of introduction—maintains their contact data for them.
As an industry and thought leader, Affinity offers benchmarking reports that allow investors to see how they stack up against top VC firms in competitive markets. We also provide a venture capital CRM checklist to help firms choose the right CRM, which highlights three key categories: platform value, functionality, and integration with existing workflows.
Traditional sales CRM platforms end up functioning more like a database than tools built for relationship-driven dealmaking. Simply storing contact and deal data is not enough, which is why dealmakers use relationship intelligence CRM platforms to support their deals. The insights provided by platforms like Affinity are no longer add-ons, they’re table stakes for tech-forward teams that want to get—and stay—ahead of the competition. Here are a few ways teams are using Affinity’s relationship intelligence to build a better business and close more deals:
- Easily customizable views of relationships and deals mean your team can quickly make changes—at their computer or on the go—that continue to fit your specific preferences and workflows.
- Flexible integration options ensure your CRM remains the foundation of your tech stack. With built-in support for tools like Slack, Typeform, Mailchimp, Eventbrite, and email providers such as Gmail and Outlook, all your relationship data and interactions are automatically captured and centralized in one hub.
- Automated reminders and triggers ensure you never miss a follow-up with an important contact.
- AI-driven tools further automate data capture, surface real-time market insights, and provide actionable recommendations to reveal new strategic opportunities.
- Aggregated and enriched data from 40+ different trusted sources provide comprehensive insights on people and companies.
Affinity’s AI-driven engine captures, analyzes, and enriches your team’s collective network data—from emails, messages, meetings, phone calls, notes, Slack, Typeform, Mailchimp, and Eventbrite, and everything in between—to create a centralized source of relationship intelligence, complete with interaction histories, shared connections, and engagement context.
Affinity’s suite of AI tools—Notetaker, Deal Assist, and Industry Insights—offers private capital professionals a competitive edge by accelerating workflows and improving collaboration across the investment cycle. Here’s how AI streamlines operations and helps private capital teams win more deals:
- Notetaker automates the capture of meeting notes and syncs insights directly into the CRM, reducing manual input and promoting consistent knowledge sharing across teams.
- Deal Assist uses AI to summarize meeting notes, analyze pitch decks, and extract key data points—expediting due diligence and investment analysis.
Industry insights delivers real-time competitive and market intelligence, offering quick access to funding history, hiring trends, and sector saturation to help identify and assess investment opportunities.
Flexible pricing options provide teams with the versatility to pick the features they need. Affinity’s Enterprise tier—the most popular solution—provides teams with the broadest and most valuable set of capabilities:
- Automatic people and company record enrichment with hard-to-find insights
- Relationship intelligence
- Sourcing and deal management CRM extensions
- Analytical reports and dashboards built to improve deal quality and velocity
- Customizable user and content based permissions
- SSO (Single Sign On)
- Additional support and service options
Alternative pricing options are available with different combinations of features. Reach out to our sales team today to find the solution that suits your needs.
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers. Dealmakers in industries such as venture capital, private equity, and asset management require a deep level of relationship context as their deals are defined by longer-term engagements that are unstructured and collaborative by nature. They need a platform supported by automation to make teams more effective, help them prospect smarter, and close deals faster.
Affinity Sourcing builds on the value that the Affinity CRM provides to deal teams. Dealmakers can use Affinity Sourcing to expand their pipeline beyond the firm’s existing network, using data to efficiently discover, prioritize, track, and connect with the most relevant emerging companies at the ideal time. Affinity Sourcing helps dealmakers:
- Discover high-potential companies sooner: Filter and prioritize startups with screeners on selected signals
- Monitor and engage with the best opportunities: Track startups over time with watchlists and alerts
- Get the biggest ROI from an investment in sourcing: Reduce sourcing and data management costs
If your team is ready to take back time to focus on the relationships that drive deals with advanced AI-powered solutions, choose Affinity. Talk to an Affinity sales team member today to learn more and schedule a demo.