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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Affinity.\n\n## What Ray builds\n\n- [Affinity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/affinity.md), graded B, 63.4/100, in CRM \u0026 customer platforms. Affinity is a relationship CRM for venture capital and private equity firms, from Project Affinity, Inc. Agents reach it through a versioned REST API with a public OpenAPI file and a hosted MCP server, on the Scale plan and above. Co-founder, Affinity, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Shubham Goel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shubham-goel/), Co-founder, Affinity\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Menlo Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/menlo-ventures/)\n- [Advance Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/advance-venture-partners/)\n- [Sprints Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sprints-capital/)\n- [Pear VC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pear-vc/)\n- [Sway Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sway-ventures/)\n- [MassMutual](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/massmutual/)\n- [Teamworthy Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/teamworthy-ventures/)\n- [ECT Capital Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ect-capital-partners/)\n- [Brian N. Sheth](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/brian-n-sheth/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ray Zhou?\n\nRay Zhou is co-founder of Affinity.\n\n### What does Project Affinity, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Affinity from Project Affinity, Inc.. Affinity is a relationship CRM for venture capital and private equity firms, from Project Affinity, Inc. Agents reach it through a versioned REST API with a public OpenAPI file and a hosted MCP server, on the Scale plan and above.\n\n### Who has invested in Project Affinity, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Menlo Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, Sprints Capital, Pear VC, Sway Ventures, MassMutual, Teamworthy Ventures, ECT Capital Partners and Brian N. Sheth.\n\n### How are Ray's tools graded?\n\nAffinity is graded B, 63.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.affinity.co/\n- https://www.affinity.co/contact-us\n- https://support.affinity.co/home\n- https://www.affinity.co/about\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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