Key takeaways
- Attio is a general CRM that funds configure for deal flow. It has a free plan and Plus at $35 per user a month billed annually.
- Affinity is built for private capital, with relationship scoring, activity capture and AI agents, priced per user per year.
- Airtable, Notion and a sheet with a form are build-your-own routes with low entry prices.
- Delsivo is not a CRM. It handles inbound founders and the thesis check, and is at the design partner stage.
What Attio gives a fund
Attio's home page addresses revenue teams, and a separate deal flow page presents it to investors as the CRM for custom deal flow. You get custom objects and fields, kanban pipelines, inbox and calendar sync, and Ask Attio, which answers questions and suggests updates that a user approves or rejects. AI and workflow features draw on monthly credits.
Funds that leave Attio usually want one of two things: a CRM that already knows how private capital works, or tooling for the part Attio's deal flow page does not describe, such as inbound application forms, deck handling and thesis tracking.
Attio alternatives for VC compared
| Option | Approach | Entry price | Built for venture |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affinity | CRM for private capital with activity capture and relationship scoring | Essential $2,000 per user a year | Yes, with a venture capital page |
| Airtable | No-code database and forms you build yourself | Free plan; Team $20 per user a month billed annually | Through community templates |
| Notion | Docs, databases and free forms in one workspace | Free plan; Plus $10 per member a month | Through third-party templates |
| Google Sheets with a form | A shared sheet fed by Google Forms or Typeform | Typeform Basic 28 USD a month billed yearly | No |
| Delsivo | Founder portal, deck reading with slide citations, thesis rubric | No published prices; pilots priced with each fund | Yes, design partner stage |
If you want a CRM made for private capital
Affinity is the purpose-built option here. Its venture capital page covers sourcing, pipeline, investment committee, portfolio monitoring and fundraising, and it captures email and meetings automatically. It is priced per user per year, billed annually, with no free plan listed. See Delsivo vs Affinity for a closer look.
If you want to keep building it yourself
Airtable and Notion follow Attio's build-it-yourself idea with general tools. Airtable forms accept file attachments, which helps when founders send decks, but its help article says forms are single-page and can't save a partial submission. Notion's forms are free and unlimited; its forms help article doesn't mention a file upload question.
A shared sheet fed by a form is the lightest version. Google's help page says file upload questions in Google Forms need responders to sign in to a Google Account.
Where Delsivo fits for inbound
Delsivo gives your fund a branded application portal, reads each PDF deck with every fact cited to its slide, applies your thesis as a published rubric and keeps claims, requests and decisions in one record. Those are pilot features; interviews and data rooms come in the first release. It sits beside a CRM rather than replacing one. See Delsivo vs Attio.
Where Delsivo is weaker
- No CRM features: no inbox or calendar sync, relationship intelligence or outreach sequences.
- A fixed structure around venture review, where Attio lets you build custom objects and workflows.
- No free plan, no published prices, few integrations and no API yet.
- Design partner stage: nothing is generally available.
Sources
- Attio home page (checked 6 November 2026)
- Attio: deal flow management (checked 6 November 2026)
- Attio pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Attio: Ask Attio (checked 6 November 2026)
- Affinity: venture capital (checked 6 November 2026)
- Affinity pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Airtable pricing (checked 6 November 2026)
- Airtable Support: form views (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)
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