Key takeaways
- Airtable gives a fund a flexible base with forms that accept file attachments, a free plan and Team at $20 per user a month billed annually.
- Its venture deal flow templates are published by the community, and its forms are single-page without save and resume.
- Notion and a sheet with a form are cheaper do-it-yourself routes; Attio and Affinity add CRM features.
- Delsivo brings the review workflow built in, but is at the design partner stage and has few integrations.
When a fund outgrows its Airtable base
Airtable is a good place to start a deal tracker. A community template gives you a deals pipeline and a companies directory, a form takes applications with deck attachments, and automations send notifications. Paid seats are charged only for editors, and form submissions are free on Team and Business.
The base starts to strain in predictable places. Airtable's help article says forms are single-page, can't save a partial submission, and create a new record on each submission, so follow-up requests need their own setup. The AI page describes no pitch deck reading or thesis rubric. And someone has to keep the base in shape as the team changes how it works.
Airtable alternatives for VC compared
| Option | Kind | Entry price | What it adds over Airtable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notion | Docs, databases and forms | Free plan; Plus $10 per member a month | Memos and wiki beside the tracker; free unlimited forms |
| Google Sheets with a form | Spreadsheet fed by Google Forms or Typeform | Typeform Basic 39 USD a month billed monthly | Familiar to everyone, low cost |
| Attio | General CRM | Free plan; Plus $35 per user a month billed annually | Inbox and calendar sync, AI that suggests updates |
| Affinity | Private capital CRM | Essential $2,000 per user a year | Activity capture, relationship scoring, enrichment |
| Delsivo | Venture review workspace | No published prices; pilots priced with each fund | Branded portal, deck citations, thesis rubric, claim labels |
Staying do-it-yourself
Notion suits a team that already writes memos there: a deal database with board views sits next to them, and Notion advertises unlimited forms and responses for free. Its forms help article doesn't mention a file upload question, so decks may need another route. A Google Form feeding a sheet is the lightest setup, though file uploads need the founder to sign in to a Google Account.
Moving to a CRM or a review workspace
Attio keeps much of Airtable's flexibility, with custom objects, and adds CRM features such as inbox sync. Affinity is built for private capital from the start. Both are about relationships and pipeline more than reviewing applications.
Delsivo is about the review. Your fund's portal takes the application and deck, each extracted fact links to its slide, the thesis is applied the same way for every founder, and claims carry one of four labels. See Delsivo vs Airtable.
Where Delsivo is weaker
- Less flexible than Airtable: you configure a rubric, forms and branding, not your own tables and fields.
- No integrations, API or import from an existing base yet; import and export are planned for a later release.
- No free plan or published prices.
- Design partner stage, with no certification yet.
Sources
- Airtable pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Airtable Support: form views (checked 6 November 2026)
- Airtable template: VC deal flow (checked 6 November 2026)
- Airtable: AI (checked 6 November 2026)
- Notion pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Notion: forms (checked 6 November 2026)
- Notion Help: forms (checked 6 November 2026)
- Google Docs Editors Help: file upload questions (checked 6 November 2026)
- Typeform pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Attio pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Affinity pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
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