Shubham Goel

Shubham is Co-Founder at Affinity, an AI-powered relationship intelligence platform that helps private capital firms manage deals and leverage their networks. He co-founded the company with Ray Zhou while studying Computer Science at Stanford University.
Shubham graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Computer Science in 2015 and was a fellow at Pear Ventures' entrepreneurial program. He previously worked as a Partner at Dorm Room Fund and as a Software Engineering Intern at Flickr.
Shubham and co-founder Ray Zhou were named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2019 for their work building Affinity. He was also a CS106 Section Leader at Stanford, teaching computer science to fellow students.
Affinity has raised over $120M in total funding, with an $80M Series C round led by Menlo Ventures in 2021. The platform serves over 1,700 customers in 70+ countries, including top firms like Bain Capital Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and SoftBank Group.
Affinity has analyzed over 18 trillion emails and 213 million calendar events to build its relationship intelligence graph. The platform powers over 500,000 new introductions and tracks 450,000 deals per month for dealmakers worldwide.