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Commsor Bet That Your Network Was the Product
The community-software startup spent six years arguing that trust, not cold email, is how companies actually grow - then folded the idea, and itself, into The Swarm.
Commsor
It started as software for online communities and became the company that told sales teams to stop cold-calling and start asking friends. The dinosaur was optional; the warm intro was the point.
Pally
Pally is an AI relationship management platform that pulls together a person's connections from across iMessage, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, email, calendar and X into one intelligent inbox and personal CRM. Its AI researches what each contact does and posts online, surfaces who you should reconnect with, prepares you for meetings, and tracks relationship strength - built for founders, investors, salespeople and recruiters who live and die by their networks. Founded in 2024 by Haz Hubble and Wyatt Lansford, Pally is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.
Nexl
Nexl is an AI-powered growth platform built specifically for law firms. Founded in Sydney in 2018 by former Gilbert + Tobin innovation lead Philipp Thurner, it unites CRM, relationship intelligence, marketing, and collaborative workspaces into a single front-office system. Its core differentiator is a zero-entry approach that automatically captures emails, meetings, and relationships without lawyers having to log data, solving the low-adoption problem that plagues legacy legal CRMs. More than 150 firms worldwide, including AmLaw 100 leaders, use Nexl to turn business development strategy into daily action.
Connect The Dots
Connect The Dots (CTD.ai) is a San Francisco relationship-intelligence company that turns the email and LinkedIn history sitting inside a company into a searchable graph of who actually knows whom - and how well. Founded in 2019 by ex-Salesforce sellers and designers, it scores relationships from two-way email activity, surfaces the shortest warm path to any buyer, candidate or investor, and lets go-to-market teams request introductions at scale instead of sending cold outreach. The individual product is free; teams and enterprises pay to pool their collective network.
Philipp Thurner
Philipp Thurner is the Austrian-born founder and CEO of Nexl, an AI-powered growth and CRM platform for law firms. He built the company in Sydney in 2018 after seeing spreadsheets of global lawyers being updated by hand at Gilbert + Tobin, pivoted through a 'LinkedIn for lawyers' phase, and now runs the business from Brooklyn as it serves more than 150 firms worldwide, including AmLaw 100 members. In October 2025 Nexl closed a $23M Series B (reported as A$35M) led by Tidemark, bringing total funding to roughly $45M.
Louisa AI
Louisa AI is a New York-based relationship intelligence platform, spun out of Goldman Sachs in 2023, that maps who-knows-who and who-knows-what inside an organization. By reading daily market news against a firm's internal relationship graph, it proactively nudges the right colleague with the right warm lead at the right time - what founder Rohan Doctor calls 'systematizing serendipity.' It sells mainly to investment banks, private capital, consulting and law firms as a cross-sell and deal-origination engine.
Postilize
Postilize is an AI-powered proactive relationship management (PRM) platform built for law firms and professional services. Instead of waiting for someone to log a note in a CRM, it scans millions of public signals - stock filings, news, M&A activity, leadership changes, lawsuits - to flag client opportunities and risks before the phone rings, then drafts timely outreach in each partner's own voice and quietly keeps contact data clean. Founded in 2023 by Introhive veteran Jody Glidden, Postilize raised seed funding and secured a strategic investment from legal-tech giant Litera in August 2025.
Jody Glidden
Jody Glidden is the Founder and CEO of Postilize, a Miami Beach-based AI platform that introduced a new software category called Proactive Relationship Management (PRM) for law firms and professional services. A serial entrepreneur with five ventures and four exits, Glidden previously co-founded Introhive — which grew to a near-$500M valuation, 350+ employees, and 40x returns for early investors — before stepping back in 2022 to build Postilize. Rooted in his conviction that law firms lose clients not from poor service but from poor follow-through, Glidden is building AI that surfaces client opportunities before an RFP ever appears, drafts outreach in each partner's authentic voice, and demands zero data entry from its users.
Rohan Doctor
Rohan Doctor is the founder and CEO of Louisa AI, a New York relationship-intelligence platform that spun out of Goldman Sachs in 2023. After 17 years at Goldman, where he ran the Bank Solutions business and closed a record cross-border trade he chalked up to a chance hallway encounter, he set out to answer one question: what if you could systematize serendipity with data? Louisa maps who-knows-who and who-knows-what inside an organization, then proactively nudges colleagues toward deals and warm introductions. The company raised a $5M seed in March 2024 backed by angels and Oxford University, and counts Goldman Sachs among its blue-chip financial-services customers.
Avantos
Avantos is an AI-native operating system for client management in financial services. Built on a knowledge graph that connects client data, products, teams, and work, its AI agents power onboarding, servicing, and growth while fitting into existing tech stacks. Founded in 2024 in New York by Bassam Chaptini and Rabih Ramadi, the company launched with Mercer Advisors and raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners in February 2026, bringing total funding to $35M.
Affinity
Affinity is an AI-powered relationship intelligence platform built for dealmakers in venture capital, private equity, investment banking, and other relationship-driven industries. It automatically captures emails, meetings, and network data to surface the warmest path into any deal, replacing the manual CRM data entry that has historically slowed private capital teams.
Ken Fine
Ken Fine is the CEO of Affinity, the AI-powered relationship intelligence platform trusted by more than half of the top venture capital firms for deal sourcing, portfolio management, and relationship-driven dealmaking. A Stanford MBA and Arjay Miller Scholar with engineering degrees from RPI and Virginia Tech, Ken brings a rare arc - US Navy officer to Goldman Sachs to serial SaaS operator - having guided Financial Engines, Medallia, and Heap through IPOs and acquisitions before taking the helm at Affinity in May 2024.