Why Choose 4Degrees Over Microsoft Excel?
Get deal + relationship intelligence without spending hours customizing and entering data.
Excel is a versatile and powerful tool to organize data and perform calculations. However, it lacks CRM and relationship intelligence functionality.
In a world where the strength of your relationships is crucial for your firm to remain competitive and close deals, you need a system designed to actively manage and nurture long-term relationships.
4Degrees is an intelligent relationship management 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.
Excel is neither a CRM nor a relationship intelligence platform. However, some organizations have adopted it as a makeshift CRM.
Unfortunately, Excel only stores data and is no match against a dedicated solution, especially when managing relationships, tracking communications, and supporting complex relationship-based deals.
Why Choose 4Degrees?
Purpose-Built for Deal Driven Teams
4Degrees is built for dealmakers. We understand your unique workflows and the pivotal role relationships play in every step of the deal process.
Save Time With Automated Enrichment
Automatically enrich and keep records updated by leveraging third-party datasets (Crunchbase, PitchBook, Clearbit) and data points from your team's emails, meetings, and contacts, saving you hundreds of hours per year while keeping your database clean and accurate.
News + Alerts About Your Network
4Degrees combines relationship + deal tracking with contact intelligence – surfacing when key relationships have changed jobs, made investments, or other important signals to help you source more opportunities.
Deeply Integrated Into Your Workflow
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.
Deploy and Onboard Quickly
Hit the ground running with our 1-1 training sessions and access to a dedicated customer success manager who will guide you through onboarding and implementation to ensure your team is getting the most value from 4Degrees.
Key Features and Capabilities
Deal Flow Management
4Degrees automatically captures every interaction with your contacts by syncing with Exchange and Gmail servers.
Your team can then visualize your deal pipeline in a list or Kanban style view, keeping you abreast of the status of every deal.Excel does not integrate with any email servers. Instead, you will spend hundreds of hours per year entering and updating data while constantly customizing manual reports.
Relationship Intelligence
Find the best path to a warm introduction.
The 4Degrees relationship intelligence engine uses proprietary algorithms to analyze the strength of your relationships and help you identify the best approach to a specific company.
Excel lacks this capability, keeping you in the dark about your and your team's relationship intelligence. Resulting in countless hours spent trying to find connections for warm introductions.
Data Enrichment
Data entry is a tedious and time-consuming process.
In Excel,the spreadsheet is only as good as the data, meaning you constantly need to manually update entries.
4Degrees solves this problem by extracting data from your email communications, calendar, and meetings while enriching company, and deal data with information sourced from 3rd party providers, including Clearbit, Crunchbase, and PitchBook.
This way, you can access the best data and spend time on high-value activities
Contact Tracking
Contact and company profile pages are table stakes in any CRM yet non-existent in Excel.
4Degrees allows you to automatically add contacts by syncing your email accounts, directly from LinkedIn and via a CSV export.
Additionally, all profile page fields are fully editable to fit your unique needs.
Analytics and Reporting
By having access to pre-configured templates and the option to create custom reports, 4Degrees empowers you with the data you need to understand and streamline your team's performance.
In contrast, Excel has limited reporting capabilities that require considerable customization, which can be time-consuming and prone to human error.
Integrations
We know you rely on multiple tools to stay on top of your work.
4Degrees integrates with the tools you already use, including DocuSign, Salesforce, Mailchimp, OneDrive, etc. Excel lacks integrations with any other tools and platforms. If you need to move data to and from Excel, you have limited options.
Mobile Access
Get work done and strengthen your professional relationships at any time by having access to all your data directly from your phone.
Regardless of what phone you use, The 4Degrees mobile app is compatible with Android and iOS.
Excel was not created with mobile in mind. As a result, their mobile app is restricted to basic functionality.
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