Key takeaways
- Affinity is a relationship CRM for private capital, priced per user per year from $2,000 on its Essential plan.
- Attio and DealCloud are the closest CRM alternatives, at very different sizes. Decile Hub bundles deal flow with LP and back office tools.
- Airtable lets a fund build its own tracker, with a free plan and published per-seat prices.
- Delsivo does a narrower job: founder intake, deck facts cited to slides and thesis screening. It has no CRM yet.
Why funds look for Affinity alternatives
Affinity describes itself as an AI-first CRM for private capital. It captures email and calendar activity, scores relationship strength, surfaces warm paths and runs AI agents for sourcing, IC prep and deal monitoring. For a firm that wins deals through its network, that is the core of the product.
The reasons small funds look elsewhere tend to be practical. Pricing is per user per year, billed annually, from $2,000 on Essential, with its AI agents starting on the $2,300 Scale plan. And some funds' daily problem is not relationship coverage but inbound applications: Affinity's venture capital page describes no founder application form, and its AI page describes no reading of pitch decks.
Affinity alternatives at a glance
| Option | What it is | Starting price | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attio | Flexible general CRM with custom objects, inbox sync and AI | Free plan; Plus $35 per user a month billed annually | Teams that want to design their own setup |
| Intapp DealCloud | Deal and relationship platform for professional and financial firms | Not published; demo first | Larger and multi-strategy firms |
| Decile Hub | Fund platform for emerging managers: deal flow, LPs, back office | Not published; free through VC Lab | New managers who want one platform |
| Airtable | No-code database a fund shapes into a tracker | Free plan; Team $20 per user a month billed annually | Funds happy to build and maintain their own base |
| Delsivo | Founder portal, deck reading with citations, thesis screening | No published prices; pilots priced with each fund | Lean funds with steady inbound, as design partners |
Other CRMs: Attio and DealCloud
Attio sits at the flexible end. It is a general CRM whose deal flow page calls it the CRM for custom deal flow, with kanban pipelines, inbox and calendar sync, and Ask Attio for questions and suggested updates. It has a free plan for up to 3 seats. Its deal flow page does not describe inbound application forms; funds connect form apps such as Typeform.
Intapp DealCloud sits at the other end: a deal and relationship platform for private capital, investment banking, legal and consulting firms, with Outlook capture, relationship scores and market data from partners such as PitchBook and Preqin. Prices are not published. More in Delsivo vs Attio and Delsivo vs DealCloud.
Platforms and do-it-yourself options
Decile Hub is an invitation-only platform for running a venture firm. Decile Group says it gives emerging managers the tools to operate at institutional scale, across fundraising, deal flow, back office and compliance. Its Deals agent reads pitch decks; its pages don't describe citations to slides.
Airtable is the build-your-own route. Its gallery has community-published Deal Flow CRM templates, and its forms accept file attachments. The fund designs and maintains the base.
Where Delsivo fits
Delsivo starts where a founder applies. Your fund gets a branded portal, each PDF deck is read with every extracted fact cited to its slide, your thesis is applied criterion by criterion with Unknown values turned into questions, and claims are labelled by how well they are backed. These arrive in the pilot; interviews and data rooms follow in the first release.
Many funds would keep a CRM for relationships and use Delsivo for inbound review. See Delsivo vs Affinity.
Where Delsivo is weaker
- It is not a CRM: no email or calendar capture, relationship scoring or warm-path search. CRM import and export are planned for a later release.
- It is at the design partner stage, and nothing is generally available yet.
- It has few integrations (Slack and calendars) and no certification yet. Affinity lists both.
- Committee workflow, portfolio handoff and fundraising tools are not part of the pilot.
Sources
- Affinity home page (checked 6 November 2026)
- Affinity: venture capital (checked 6 November 2026)
- Affinity pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Affinity: artificial intelligence (checked 6 November 2026)
- Attio: deal flow management (checked 6 November 2026)
- Attio pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Intapp DealCloud (checked 6 November 2026)
- Intapp: venture capital (checked 6 November 2026)
- Decile Group: Decile Hub (checked 6 November 2026)
- Decile Hub home page (checked 6 November 2026)
- Airtable pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Airtable template: VC deal flow (checked 6 November 2026)
Facts about other companies and services come from the pages listed, on the dates shown, and can change.