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 insights that close deals and the freedom from the drudgery of manual data entry that comes with accurate, automatically captured data. Give your team time to focus on relationship-building and the confidence to collaborate.
Automate data capture
Monitor deal sourcing and leads
Automate contact and company creation
Affinity vs. DealCloud
Single source of truth for your data
Relationship intelligence
Automate data capture
Organize and manage your records
Track your team’s most valuable connections in a centralized CRM.
Monitor deal sourcing and leads
Centralize your deal-sourcing and lead-management efforts.
Enhance your data with relationship intelligence
Derive insights into your network, business relationships, and customer interactions to find, manage, and close deals.
Score your relationships
Open new doors to new opportunities with scores based on real interactions.
Automate contact and company creation
Create contact and company profiles directly from inbox and calendar data.
Capture complete historical data
Instantly surface all interactions with people and companies—from your first day on the job to today.
Decrease time to value
Deploy your entire CRM platform rapidly—sometimes in as little as 72 hours.
Report on deal essential data
Easily unearth real-time insights and drill into trends that shape the future of your business.
Create custom reports
Build custom reporting dashboards using Looker—an industry-leading business intelligence and analytics platform.
Simplify deal flow management
Enable pipeline management for sophisticated, long-term dealmaking with familiar list- and Kanban-style views of your active deals.
Onboard quickly
Focus on driving opportunities, not learning or teaching others to use a complex system.
Access key industry data with ease
Enrich your CRM with built-in external partner datasets—including Crunchbase—and make more informed decisions about your prospective deals.
Improve your data security
Rely on a system that meets certification against stringent global standards—including GDPR and SOC 2 Type II.
Frequently Asked Questions
DealCloud may have built a strong reputation in the last generation of customer relationship management solutions for investors, but the future of capital markets CRM software lies with automated data 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 and professional services teams. It also 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 designed to be easy to use and rich with insights that drive faster, confident action taking. Professional and financial services dealmakers utilize 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 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.
Traditional sales CRM platforms end up functioning more like a database than tools built for business intelligence. Simply storing contact and deal data is no longer enough, which is why dealmakers are transitioning to 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:
- Custom trials using real company data enables you to get a more tangible view into how Affinity impacts into your unique day-to-day workflows–and when you’re ready to fully migrate, all of your information is already in your new CRM—saving time on deployment and training.
- Easily customizable views of relationship and deal data mean your team can quickly make changes to your CRM at any time so they continue to fit your specific preferences and workflows.
- Native reporting and analytics functionality allow you to build reports to monitor forecasting, team productivity, deal flow, KPIs, and make more data-driven decisions to improve your business.
- Flexible integration options ensure your CRM is the foundation of your tech stack. Connect your other software to your CRM—from email providers like Gmail or Outlook to email marketing, marketing automation, task management, and anything else your team depends on.
- Automated reminders and triggers ensure you never miss a follow-up with an important contact.
- Relationship intelligence is drawn from a combination of your team’s collective network—from customer interactions, meetings, phone calls, notes logged from exchanges on social media platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter, and everything in between—to give your team paths to new warm introductions and opportunities.
Flexible pricing options provide teams with the versatility to pick the features they need. Affinity Enterprise tier—the most popular solution—provides teams the broadest and most valuable Affinity offerings.
- Automatic people and company record enrichment with hard to find insights
- 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 also available with different combination of features. Reach out to our sales team today to find the options that suit your needs.
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers. Dealmakers in industries such as private capital, financial services, and professional services require a deep level of relationship context as their deals are defined by longer-term engagements that are much more unstructured and collaborative. In addition to that, they also require a platform supported by automation to make teams more effective, helps them prospect smarter, and close deals faster.
If your team is ready to automate manual contact and deal data entry and take back time to focus on the relationships that drive your business, choose Affinity. Talk to an Affinity sales team member today to learn more and schedule a demo.