Ray Zhou is Co-Founder and CEO at Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform that uses AI to transform how dealmakers in venture capital, private equity, and investment banking manage relationships and close deals.

Ray studied Computer Science at Stanford University where he met co-founder Shubham Goel, then dropped out after two years to launch Affinity in 2014.

Ray was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2019 for Enterprise Technology and was a finalist at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2011.

Affinity has raised $120M in total funding including an $80M Series C led by Menlo Ventures and serves over 1,700 global institutions including BlackRock and Bessemer.

Affinity has processed over 18 trillion emails and 213 million calendar events, powering 500,000 new introductions and tracking 450,000 deals per month.