Congratulations Affinity team!
This month we celebrated a major milestone for the team at Affinity: they raised $80 million dollars to accelerate their growth. . . to Affinity and beyond!
Affinity is on a mission to reimagine the stale CRM space with their platform designed explicitly to help deal-makers harness the value of relationship intelligence.
Relationships as an asset class
“Our worldview is that relationships are the biggest industries in the world. Some would disagree, but relationships are an asset class, they are a currency that separates the winners from the losers.”
- Ray Zhou, Cofounder & CEO
Affinity cofounders Ray Zhou and Shubham Goel
To date, the company’s platform has analyzed over 18 trillion emails and 213 million calendar events and currently drives over 500,000 new introductions and tracks 450,000 deals per month. It also has more than 1,700 customers in 70 countries, boasting a list that includes the above customers, along with Bain Capital Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Nike, and Twilio.
Trust first
Unlike other platforms {cough, Linkedin}, Affinity doesn’t sell your information out the back door. They’ve built an enterprise-grade platform with a “trust first” mindset, including SOC2, CCPA, and GDPR compliance. If you’re looking for an amazing tool to empower your teams, I highly recommend checking out a demo.
Gratitude
DBT Ventures first acquired Affinity shares in June 2017. We believed in Ray & Shooby’s vision back then, and their conviction and focus has sharpened even more over the last 4-5 years. It has been a privilege to play a small part in their success, help them shape their early Customer Success team, and become friends with two of the smartest, most humble founders we’ve ever met.
To Affinity. . . and Beyond!
Sincerely,
Luke & the DBT Ventures team
p.s. also, thank you to Ray for first recommending The Three-Body Problem trilogy! #mindblown