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Affinity

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Affinity provides AI-powered compliance and learning software for regulated organizations.

HQNew York City, New York, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 4h ago
HR TechB2B SaaS

About

Affinity builds an AI-powered internal compliance and learning platform for regulated organizations, including fintech companies and banks. Its differentiated offering combines automated training, customizable course authoring, workflow management, reporting, and audit-readiness tools in one platform.

Market

Affinity competes in the compliance-training/LMS and internal-compliance-management market for regulated organizations. It positions itself as an all-in-one, AI-powered platform combining policy and procedure management, employee training, workflow automation, risk controls, and audit reporting. Its differentiation is a compliance-specific operating layer—with Cora and Imagine AI, customizable regulatory content, automated assignments and escalations, and audit-ready reporting—rather than a generic LMS focused primarily on course delivery.

Target Customers

Affinity targets regulated technology companies, fintechs, financial-services firms, and banks, serving organizations from growth-stage companies through large enterprise banks. Its primary buyers and users are compliance, legal, HR/People Ops, risk, and operations teams; pricing also explicitly targets in-house teams of up to 50 users.

At a Glance

Problem

Affinity solves the operational burden of internal compliance for regulated technology, fintech, banking, and financial-services teams. These organizations must keep policies current, assign and document employee training, manage approvals and review cycles, and produce evidence for regulators or auditors. Without a centralized system, compliance work becomes a scramble across scattered documents and tools, creating recurring administrative cost and risk from missed reviews, overdue training, weak policy acknowledgments, or incomplete audit trails.

The main use case is turning compliance from a periodic audit fire drill into a continuously managed process: a team can govern its policies, operationalize procedures, train employees, and quickly assemble regulator-ready evidence. The economics are primarily seat-based software economics, with the value coming from reducing manual compliance administration and the cost and risk of delayed or poorly documented audits rather than from a disclosed quantified savings figure.

Product / Service

Affinity is an AI-powered internal compliance and learning-management platform delivered as a cloud software service. Its policy hub centralizes documents, assigns owners, tracks versions and review cycles, routes approvals, and manages acknowledgments. The platform also includes workflow and rules engines, dashboards, reporting, learner reminders, course sharing, content authoring, and a course catalog for regulated-industry training. Its Imagine tool turns internal documentation into trackable training, while Cora provides policy answers and relevant excerpts for employees and audit work.

The product is sold through a per-seat internal platform beginning at $5 per seat per month, with an enterprise plan offering unlimited users, premium support, integrations, custom training support, and broader AI access. Training completions, scores, policy acknowledgments, and review activity are structured as evidence that can be exported to CSV or PDF, while one-click and scheduled reports help teams demonstrate compliance without manually reconstructing the record.

Market

Affinity competes in the corporate compliance-training, learning-management, and internal-compliance software markets, with a vertical focus on regulated technology companies and financial services. Its positioning is broader than a conventional learning-management system because it combines policy governance, operational workflows, training, AI assistance, and audit evidence in one platform. Relevant adjacent competitors and alternatives include Emtrain, Ethena, Traliant, EasyLlama, NAVEX, LRN, and Skillsoft, although the available evidence does not establish a direct one-to-one competitive comparison with each vendor.

The company shows evidence of commercial adoption rather than being merely pre-revenue: its current site reports more than 100,000 completed modules and an average course rating of 8.8/10, and names Evergreen Wealth as a customer. It also publishes seat-based pricing and an enterprise sales motion. No revenue figure or comprehensive customer count is disclosed in the available evidence, so the strongest supported traction indicators are usage, customer testimony, course ratings, and the existence of paid product plans.

Founders & Leadership

Faraz RanaFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Peter GrecznerFounder
Co-Founder & CTO

Funding History

Undisclosed
Pre-SeedUndisclosed

Not publicly disclosed

2025-02
Seed$8M

Vestigo Ventures

Recent News

2026-07-22product
Affinity Ascend, The New Agent Platform for Private Capital

Affinity unveiled Affinity Ascend, an agent platform designed to help investment firms automate critical workflows across the investment lifecycle.

2026-06-23
Affinity Sees Surge in Private Equity Adoption as Firms Embrace AI-Powered Relationship Intelligence

Affinity announced that 71 new private equity firms adopted its platform, bringing its global total to more than 330 private equity firms.

2026-05-26partnership
Affinity is Building the Best MCP for Private Capital

Affinity launched its MCP Server to bring relationship intelligence directly into the AI tools used by private-capital teams.

2026-04-28product
Affinity Launches Model Context Protocol to Connect Relationship Intelligence to AI Tools for Private Capital

Affinity introduced a hosted Model Context Protocol that lets private-capital teams securely access and update live relationship and deal data through MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude.

2026-03-11
Affinity Names Sean Kearns as Chief Revenue Officer and Pam Holmberg as Chief People Officer

Affinity announced the appointments of Sean Kearns as Chief Revenue Officer and Pam Holmberg as Chief People Officer.

2026-01-23partnership
Introducing Metal's CRM Integration: Salesforce and Affinity Now Live

Metal AI announced that its CRM integration with both Salesforce and Affinity was live, connecting those systems for private-equity firms using Metal's platform.

2025-12-08
Private Capital Predictions for 2026

Affinity published a report based on a survey of nearly 300 private-capital professionals, examining how firms are adapting to a changing fundraising environment and increasing pressure to demonstrate value.

2025-08-05
Affinity Names Lindsay Bayuk as Chief Marketing Officer

Affinity appointed Lindsay Bayuk as Chief Marketing Officer and added her to the company's executive team.

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Business Model

Affinity sells subscription software priced primarily per seat, starting at $5 per seat per month, with additional training bundles and an enterprise plan for larger organizations. Enterprise customers receive expanded capabilities such as unlimited users and premium support through a sales-led plan.

Products

Policy and procedure management hubCompliance training LMS and training libraryCustom content-authoring and course-sharing toolsWorkflow and rules engine for assignments, onboarding, reminders, and escalationsAI compliance assistants and course-generation tools: Cora and ImagineRisk dashboards, compliance analytics, and regulator-ready audit reports

Customers

Scale Consulting, LLCAtlasEvergreen WealthCherrySwitchTopkey, Inc.ArpariWelcome Tech LLC

Tech Stack

AI/LLM technologies, including Cora GPT and ImagineWorkflow and rules enginesLearning management system (LMS) and content-authoring platformPolicy/document management with dashboards and audit reportingIntegrations with Slack, Rippling, Okta, JustWorks, SCIM, Bamboo, Google Workspace, and OpenAI

Competitors

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