Why Choose 4Degrees Over Affinity?
Affinity is a strong product but takes a different approach to privacy than 4Degrees.
4Degrees provides more advanced relationship intelligence, a more transparent + flexible pricing and deployment approach while respecting that your firm’s data is yours alone.
This page compares how 4Degrees and Affinity stack up when it comes to helping you leverage your network and source your next investment opportunity.
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Is a relationship intelligence & deal flow platform for deal-driven teams designed from the ground up by former investors.
Our platform identifies the right connections to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships over time, and empowers you to activate your network to source new deals, conduct diligence, and support your portfolio companies.
Is a relationship intelligence platform built for relationship-driven industries – financial services, professional services, real estate, etc. Using patented technology; Affinity enables teams to leverage their network to source new opportunities.
Why Choose 4Degrees?
We don't use your firm's data to create datasets to share with other users, nor enable teammates to share your data with other investors inadvertently.
Leverages your firm's data to enrich other firm's datasets and vice versa.
Is the only platform combining deal tracking + relationship intelligence - surfacing when specific contacts in your network have changed jobs, raised funds, made investments or other key signals and timely news to help you source opportunities.
Does not provide you with news and alerts about your network.
We charge a flat per-user/month subscription fee (monthly, annual, or multi-year), which includes access to all our product's functionality.
We craft implementation and service packages around your specific needs (including a free option).
Has a complex pricing structure with multiple tiers and service packages, making it difficult to accurately predict the total cost of ownership. The most basic tier lacks essential relationship intelligence functionality.
Access 4Degrees directly from your inbox, LinkedIn, or any page on your browser. Instantly see your best connection to a company, add them to a 4Degrees list, or create a new deal directly from a company’s website or your Gmail or Outlook inbox.
Affinity also offers an extension that can be accessed from your browser or inbox, but with fewer capabilities than their 4Degrees counterparts.
Key Features + Capabilities
Both 4Degrees and Affinity allow you to capture every interaction with your contacts by syncing with Microsoft Exchange and Gmail servers.
Your team can then visualize your deal pipeline in a list or Kanban style view, keeping you updated on the status of every deal.
Find the best path to a warm introduction. Relationship intelligence platforms use proprietary algorithms to analyze the strength of your relationships and help you identify the best approach to a specific company.
Data entry is a time-consuming and tedious process.
Affinity* and 4Degrees enrich contact, company, and deal data with information sourced from 3rd party data providers.
4Degrees relies on Full Contact, Clearbit, Crunchbase, and PitchBook to enrich firmographic and contact data. This way, you can spend time on what matters.
*Not available on Affinity's Essential Tier
Contact and organization profile pages are table stakes in the world of CRM.
Both platforms allow you to add contacts by syncing your email accounts directly from LinkedIn and exporting data via a CSV file.
Additionally, all profile page fields are fully editable to fit your unique needs.
By having access to pre-configured analytics and the option to create custom reports, both 4Degrees and Affinity* empower you with the data you need to understand and streamline your team’s performance.
4Degrees includes access to all the reporting and analytics features at no extra cost.
*Not available on Affinity's Essential Tier
We know you rely on multiple tools to stay on top of your work. That is why Affinity and 4Degrees integrate with the tools you already use.
Using Zapier, both platforms can seamlessly integrate with hundreds of other products, including Slack, Mailchimp, Dropbox, etc.
*Not available on Affinity's Essential Tier
Get work done and strengthen your professional relationships at any time by having access to all your data directly from your phone.
Mobile is not available on Affinity's Essential Tier
Accelerate your outreach process and build stronger relationships with the power to create email templates and send mass emails directly from 4Degrees.
Both 4Degrees and Affinity* include a native email marketing tool to send personalized communications directly from the platform.
*Only available on Affinity's Enterprise tier.
