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| 17.06.2026 | Raylu: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Ali Dastjerdi About The Research Platform | Raylu is an AI-powered sourcing and research platform that automates core investor workflows – market mapping, company discovery, and founder outreach – for private-market investors, including private equity, growth equity, and venture capi... |
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| 28.04.2026 | Affinity Launches Model Context Protocol to Connect Relationship Intelligence to AI Tools for Private Capital | the relationship intelligence platform built for private capital, today announced the launch of its hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP), a major expansion of its AI capabilities that positions Affinity as the source of truth for AI-first de... |
| 11.03.2026 | Affinity Names Sean Kearns as Chief Revenue Officer and Pam Holmberg as Chief People Officer | - |
| 03.03.2026 | How Quill Meetings built an agentic ‘chief of AI staff’ that takes private meeting notes
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Quill Notes LLC, or Quill Meetings, the maker of the Quill app and Quilliam, thinks it has an answer: a ... |
| 27.02.2026 | Quill Unveils Sovereign AI, Secures $6.5M Funding | Quill secured $6.5 million in seed funding. The company launched Quilliam, a sovereign Chief of AI Staff agent for professionals. Quilliam captures context from conversations. It automates workflows and coordinates other AI tools. Its core ... |
| 27.02.2026 | Quill Secures $6.5M: Sovereign AI Staff Agent Quilliam Emerges | Quill secured $6.5M in seed funding. It launched Quilliam, a sovereign Chief of AI Staff agent. Quilliam orchestrates AI tools, focusing on data privacy. It processes data locally. This innovative solution automates workflows from meeting c... |
| 26.02.2026 | Quill Launches Sovereign Chief of AI Staff Agent and Raises $6.5M | announced $6.5 million in seed funding and the launch of Quilliam, a sovereign Chief of AI Staff agent for modern professionals.
As professionals increasingly rely on multiple AI tools — for writing, coding, research, and communication — th... |
| 25.02.2026 | Quill Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding | Quill a San Francisco, CA-based privacy-focused desktop application that transcribes, summarizes, and generates actionable notes from meetings directly on devices, raised $6.5M in Seed funding
The round was led by Basis Set Ventures, with p... |
| 25.02.2026 | Quill: $6.5 Million Raised To Launch Sovereign Chief Of AI Staff Agent | Quill Meetings announced $6.5 million in seed funding and the launch of Quilliam, a sovereign Chief of AI Staff agent designed to help modern professionals coordinate and manage their growing fleet of AI tools. The round was led by Basis Se... |
| 03.12.2025 | Eon: $300 Million At $4 Billion Valuation Raised To Unlock Backup Data As The Next Big Frontier For Enterprise AI | Eon, the fast-growing cloud infrastructure company turning dormant backups into live AI-ready data, has raised $300 million in Series D funding led by Elad Gil. The round brings Eon’s total funding to $500 million, less than two years after... |
| 29.09.2025 | Inspiren Secures $100M Series B to Propel AI-Powered Senior Living Revolution | Inspiren landed $100 million in Series B funding, spearheaded by Insight Partners. This significant capital propels the expansion of its AI-driven senior living solutions nationwide. The innovative platform delivers real-time behavioral ale... |
| 25.09.2025 | Inspiren Raises $100M in Series B Funding | Inspiren, a NYC-based company which specializes in AI-powered solutions supporting senior living, raised $100M in Series B funding.
The round was led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from Avenir, Primary Vent... |
| 11.06.2025 | The Rise of AI in Business: Transforming Workflows and Enhancing Efficiency | In the fast-paced world of business, efficiency is king. Companies are constantly seeking ways to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and stay ahead of the competition. Enter artificial intelligence (AI), a game-changing force that... |
| 10.06.2025 | Bloks Launches Wealthbox Integration, Bringing 360° Relationship Intelligence to Advisors' Leading CRMs | Bloks: 360° Relationship Intelligence (PRNewsfoto/Bloks)
Bloks launches Wealthbox integration at Wealth Management EDGE 2025, delivering AI-powered CRM sync, 360° Relationship Intelligence, and built-in compliance for advisors.
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| 04.06.2025 | Canva’s AI gambit rekindles the human cost debate | When Canva announced in April that it was cutting the headcount of its technical writing team, the decision surprised many in the industry.
The move came just months after the Australian tech giant had strongly encouraged employees to integ... |
| 28.05.2025 | Contentstack Appoints Josette Leslie as CFO to Fuel Market Expansion | Contentstack, the headless CMS pioneer and category disruptor in digital experiences, announced Josette Leslie as its new Chief Financial Officer. Based in New York City, Leslie brings over 25 years of financial leadership experience across... |
| 11.11.2024 | Oslo-based Deckmatch secures €2.9 million to drive AI-powered deal flow analysis | Deckmatch, an Oslo-based AI platform focused on streamlining private market workflows, has raised €2.9 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round. With a new office opening in Palo Alto, California, the company continues its internatio... |
| 11.11.2024 | Deckmatch secures $3.1M Seed to enhance AI-powered VC matching platform | Deckmatch, an Oslo AI company streamlining private market workflows, has secured $3.1 million Seed funding.
Deckmatch was co-founded in the summer of 2023 by repeat founders Leo Gasteen (CEO) and Walid Mustapha, PhD. (CTO).
It offers a suit... |
| 02.08.2024 | Canva приобрела Leonardo.ai для активизации своих усилий в области генеративного ИИ | Компания Canva приобрела Leonardo.ai, стартап по созданию контента и исследованию генеративного искусственного интеллекта, стремясь расширить сферу применения своего технологического стека ИИ, сообщает TechCrunch. Финансовые условия сделки ... |
| 05.07.2024 | Apollo.io appointed two new executives to its leadership team | Apollo.io, a leading go-to-market (GTM) solution for sales and marketing teams, has appointed two new executives to its leadership team: Matt Curl as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Rich Bessel as SVP of Design. These strategic hires will... |
| 10.04.2024 | Spryker appoints New Global Chief Revenue Officer | Spryker, the leading global composable commerce platform for sophisticated use cases in B2B, Enterprise Marketplaces, and IoT Commerce, today announced that Dustin Deno will join the Spryker executive team as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Du... |
| 29.09.2023 | Affinity’s AI-Powered Relationship Intelligence Transforms Investment Landscape, Strengthening Deals, Portfolio Management, Investor Relations | New features empower firms to make data-driven decisions, and deliver the most value to portfolio companies for success at every stage of an investment
Affinity, the relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers, announced generative AI... |
| 28.09.2023 | Affinity's AI-Powered Relationship Intelligence Transforms | - |
| 15.09.2023 | Are Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning set to revolutionize the PE Industry? | ChatGPT has made the power of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and Machine Learning ("ML") both visible and easily accessible. Every industry needs to figure out how to leverage these capabilities. Private equity is no exc... |
| 23.06.2023 | This Week in European Tech: VC Brighteye closes €100 million edtech fund, Amazon may buy Ocado, Vestager goes for top job at EIB, Germany's latest unicorn
What happened this week in European Tech? | This week, our research team tracked more than 95 tech funding deals worth over €2.1 billion, and over 20 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
As always, we are putting all weekly deals together for ... |
| 12.04.2023 | Affinity Announces Affinity for Salesforce on Salesforce AppExchange, the World’s Leading Enterprise Cloud Marketplace | Deal teams can now benefit from relationship insights directly within Salesforce to find, manage, and close deals faster
Affinity, the relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers, announced it has launched Affinity for Salesforce on S... |
| 07.02.2023 | How Investors Are Approaching Deal-Making In 2023 | As CEO of Affinity, Ray’s goal is to bring relationship intelligence to the world because every opportunity begins with a relationship. |
| 04.10.2022 | Growth capital webinar: how to stand out in the promising market | Frog Capital’s Senior Partner Mike Reid recently featured on a growth capital webinar organised by European private equity news outlet, Real Deals. Mike was joined by AI-driven CRM platform, Affinity. co’s Europes Regional Director Thomas H... |
| 12.09.2022 | Affinity’s Series C Funding: Deploying Relationship Intelligence to Every Relationship-Driven Industry | - |
| 07.09.2022 | Edda wants to be the Bloomberg Terminal for private markets | Anyone who has worked in a role even tangentially connected to the public markets will at least have heard of Bloomberg Terminal, an industry standard platform used by professionals to gain real-time data and insights into the financial mar... |
| 26.02.2022 | Accelerating Growth Using AI: A Focus On Relationship Intelligence- Blog 2/5 Series | This is the second blog in the growth acceleration blog series on advancing AI relationship intelligence (RI). The last blog discussed complexity science and its relevance to the metaverse growth enablement approaches. |
| 24.11.2021 | Attio wants to build the CRM for the Airtable generation | Meet Attio, a new CRM for people who are familiar with modern collaboration tools, such as Airtable, Notion and Zapier. The startup wants to create a product that can hold all important information about your customers, suppliers and partne... |
| 09.09.2021 | Affinity, a Relationship Intelligence Company, Raises $80M to Help Close Deals | - |
| 09.09.2021 | Daily funding roundup - September 9th, 2021 | Affinity secured $80M; CookUnity raised $47M; Juno picks up $20M; DotCom Therapy landed $13M
Attralus: Attralus is a South San Francisco-based biotech focused on systemic amyloidosis. Attralus has raised $116 million in Series B funding. Lo... |
| 09.09.2021 | Affinity, a relationship intelligence company, raises $80M to help close deals | Relationships ultimately close deals, but long-term relationships come with a lot of baggage, i.e. email interactions, documents and meetings.
Affinity wants to take what Ray Zhou, co-founder and CEO, refers to as “data exhaust,” all of tho... |
| 09.09.2021 | Customer relationship tracker Affinity nabs $80M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform de... |
| 09.09.2021 | Customer relationship tracker Affinity nabs $80M | The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform designed to work with existing customer relationship management (CRM) solut... |
| 18.08.2021 | Affinity’s Relationship Intelligence Platform Recognized on 2021’s Inc. 5000 List | SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) August 18, 2021
Affinity (http://www.affinity.co), the leading relationship intelligence CRM platform, announced that it is featured on the Inc. 5000 2021 list. This recognition acknowledges Affinity as one of the fast... |
| 09.06.2021 | Daily AI Roundup: The 5 Coolest Things on Earth Today | AI Daily Roundup starts today! We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-system... |
| 08.06.2021 | Affinity Builds on Record Growth With Appointment of New Engineering and Marketing Leaders | Leader in Relationship Intelligence CRM hires Michael Montesano and Paul Ross as vice presidents of engineering and marketing, respectively
Affinity , the leading relationship intelligence CRM platform, announced it has bolstered its execut... |
| 29.04.2021 | Affinity Launches Affinity Analytics to Deliver Unique Insights Into CRM and Relationship Data | Relationships are the backbone of any team’s success, but just as important is understanding how to leverage those relationships in the smartest and most beneficial way possible
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) April 29, 2021
Affinity (http://www.affi... |
| 22.10.2019 | Salesforce Ventures’s John Somorjai warns N.C.’s politics could dampen its tech hub potential | North Carolina has been rising as an entrepreneurial hub. It’s now home to massive deals, like IBM buying Red Hat for $34 billion and Fortnite maker Epic Games raising a landmark $1.25 billion, both which helped to put the state — and the T... |
| 15.02.2019 | Last Week In Venture: Haute Hijab, Pro Network Mining, Coin Crunching, And Time Storage | 16 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| 14.02.2019 | Term Sheet — Thursday, February 14 | THE KEY TO A BETTER PARTNERSHIP
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We asked a number of venture inv... |
| 13.02.2019 | Affinity Closes $26.5M Series B Financing | Affinity, a San Francisco, CA-based relationship intelligence platform, raised $26.5m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Advance Venture Partners and Sway Ventures, with participation from MassMutual Ventures, Pear Ventures and angel... |
| 13.02.2019 | Affinity raises $26.5 million to manage relationships with machine learning | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Relationships are a tricky thing — and particular... |
| 13.02.2019 | Affinity Raises $26.5 Million to Manage Relationships with Machine Learning | - |
| 03.09.2018 | Привлечь 5000 клиентов перед запуском продукта с помощью email-рассылки | Автор Telegram-канала Grow Horse Денис Мартынцев сделал вольный перевод серии статей, в которых сооснователь сервиса для отслеживания времени и задач Allocate.ai поделился опытом привлечения 5000 потенциальных клиентов за десять недель и 50... |
| 24.05.2017 | Affinity Raises $13.5M in Financing | Affinity, a San Francisco, CA-based intelligent network management platform for financial sector firms, raised $13.5m in funding.
The round was led by 8VC, with participation from Sway Ventures, Pear Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, We... |
| 23.05.2017 | Great Oaks Venture Joins $13.5M Funding for Affinity | Affinity announced today the launch of its public waitlist, opening its intelligent network management platform to venture capital, private equity, and other sourcing-heavy firms. Additionally, it announced a $13.5 million capital raise led... |
| 19.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, May 19 | GOOD INTENTIONS
I want to highlight a portion of Adam Lashinsky’s book about Uber. excerpted by Fortune here and quoted on our latest cover, where CEO Travis Kalanick discusses Uber’s narrative arc from media darling to media villain, and K... |
| 18.05.2017 | For investors seeking a purpose-built CRM toolkit, Affinity raised $13.5 million to get you covered | For the venture capitalists, hedge funders, investment bankers and private equity folks trawling the skyways looking for deals, there’s nothing more important than a strong network.
But for most firms keeping track of meetings, managing fol... |
| - | The new walking dead: Over 1,000 venture funds were formed in the past 4 years. Now many could turn into zombies as LP fundraising dries up. | "There's going to be a lot of walking dead venture firms," a general partner said. "If you don't raise another fund, you're resigning. It's just a matter of time before you're dead." Steve Swisher/AMC This story is avail... |
| - | Наиболее важные инвестиционные сделки в сфере ИИ за последнюю неделю | С 3 по 10 сентября 2021 года стартапы в области искусственного интеллекта привлекли более $800 млн. Приводим наиболее интересные сделки.
Российская компания 3Divi собрала $1,9 млн на доработку и коммерциализацию сервиса для трекинга людей с... |
