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Velocity2.5

Relationship intelligence CRM for deal-making teams in venture capital and PE

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Affinity is layering AI capabilities onto its PE/VC relationship-intelligence core, but release notes are thin.

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◆Current state
Affinity continues positioning as the relationship-intelligence CRM for private capital. The recent feed is mostly marketing and category content — blog posts on network mapping, customer stories, and 2026 predictions — interleaved with a few product-shaped items: an MCP server in beta exposing deal data to AI tools, a Lists rebuild focused on performance and filtering, and references to four new AI features for deal decisions. Structured changelog content is sparse.
◆Where it's heading
The discernible pattern is AI plugged into a vertical CRM rather than reshaping it. MCP server, deal-flow AI, automatic email and meeting capture, and smarter search all layer onto the existing relationship graph. Affinity is doubling down on PE/VC vertical positioning over horizontal CRM competition, and the AI direction looks additive — not a directional rewrite of the product.
◆Prediction
Expect the MCP server to graduate from beta and more AI features focused on deal sourcing and portfolio support. Cleaner, dedicated release-note infrastructure would improve external readability, but the strategic direction reads as steady AI layering on a stable PE/VC platform.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Blog index scrape — no specific release

    This entry is a scrape of Affinity's blog index page rather than a discrete release. The visible mentions reinforce the AI-on-CRM trajectory (MCP server beta, 4 new AI features, automatic capture) but no individual release is described.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Navigation tag-list capture

    Captured page navigation listing customer segments (VC, PE, family office, etc.) — not a release. Useful only as confirmation that Affinity's segmentation messaging still centers on private capital verticals.

  3. 1mo ago

    Who knows who? How PE and VC firms use CRM network mapping to find warm introductions

    Duplicate of the earlier blog-index scrape from a week later. No new product information; mirrors the same set of headline mentions (MCP server, AI features, mobile experience refresh).

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