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Affinity Reviews & Product Details
Affinity is a software platform designed specifically for venture capital (VC) firms, private equity (PE) firms, and investment banking. It's tailored to address the unique needs of these industries, especially in managing relationships and deal flows.
Affinity is also often used as Venture Capital Management of choice in Venture Capital and Private Equity tech stacks.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation, Videos, Webinars |
| Languages | English |
Affinity Pros and Cons
- Lightweight speed: Unlike Illustrator, Affinity doesn’t take up a huge amount of space on your computer. You can pan and zoom at 60FPS, access live previews and enjoy features with smooth speed.
- Flexibility: Make designs as simple or complex as you like. The Affinity Designer has an engine that can genuinely handle hundreds of objects with no lag. The company advertises “thousands”, but we didn’t put that to the test.
- Live outlines and grids: It’s easy to create accurate designs when you can create live outlines and grids to suit you.
- 'Some limitations on your exporting options for files (no AI)
- No artificial intelligence enhancements like with Illustrator
Automatically captures all data, structures in a way that provides business value, and makes my teams life way easier
The mobile app needs a bit of work and a new version release
Relationship management, pipeline management, global contact management, firm transparency
Affinity makes everything in my network easily searchable, automatically gathers tons of data so i dont have to enter it, and is my go to for managing professional relationships.
It took me some time to get used to the lists functionality, but now that i have it down i make tons of customized lists and use the product for pipeline
Affinity provides me with invaluable insights into my networks, and how to best leverage it to be more efficient. There have been so many times I have used Affinity to remember when I last spoke to someone, what introductions i have given/received, to track down files, etc. that is so much easier in Affinity than trying to remember the right search terms for an email search.
The capability of their Alliance feature is mind blowing. It solves one of the biggest pain points I have faced as an entrepreneur - scoring warm introductions . From recruiting to fundraising, warm intros can make or break a business. Alliances surfaces all this data so I can better leverage my network. Really is amazing technology.
The reports were limited for a while. They just released a few more that align them with other Salesforce alternatives.
Leverage relationships and source more warm intros.
Wow! Simply amazed by how clean the UI is and how powerful the relationship data in helping me find connections in my network.
Not much to dislike about this product!
Managing my network. Affinity has helped me realize its true potential.
Affinity is a great platform for gathering deeper insight into your network as it relates to my sales and business development efforts. It's the best system for understanding these connections that I have found thus far. I like that it also analyzes my email conversations and reminds me of important conversations.
hmmm. Not sure. I like everything that it does. I'm quite clear on what the system does and why I got it. I would like it to be deeper integrated into perhaps my other sales and marketing tools. Deep integration into Salesforce, Marketo, SalesLoft, Outreach.io, etc. This would make it more powerful.
Sales prospecting and sales cycle acceleration.
Helps me visualize pipeline, strength of relationships and owners in certain tech names without having to individually source and build lists manually.
I actually think they could partner with another one of Joe L.'s companies/tools that I utilize and would make it even more powerful.
More effective follow-ups, Relationship connectivity visualization, strength of relationships, Help me extend sales pipeline.
The intuitive UI is hands down the best part of the app. By integrating a familiar spreadsheet-like format with all of the advantages of entity tracking, Affinity helps keep all of my relationships in check. I’ve used other sales app and none come close.
Not much, there are a few bugs here and there since it hasn’t been completely rolled out, but many of those features are beta.
Managing relationships: Investors, Customers, and other stakeholders
Affinity is inuative. It is great that it is not complicated to train new users on the system.
In consistant cusor movement does present challenges when using the software. Not sure where you are typing sometimes.
Keeping track of contacts and reachouts. Tracking our deal process.
Automated logging of meetings on calendar, the ability to track almost anything, etc.
I'm not sure I dislike anything. There might be some things that come up, but considering I haven't done enough training and also haven't used it long enough, there may be things I say "I don't like how..." to, only to find out there's a way to fix it already.
Tracking relationships and ability to visualize the entire funnel of pipeline. On Salesforce (for us, at least) everything visually looked like a list, and we had to manually log events and create reports. Affinity makes all that easier. I now rarely forget about companies I spoke to a while ago that I should check back in with.
Automation with emails & external data from Crunchbase
The emailing tool is too basic. It lacks essential features like uploading images.
Dealflow management, fundraising and CRM.