Aaron Bai
@aaronbaii
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Fintech Founder @AffinitiFinance | @UCBerkeley
LA/NYC
Joined December 2019
I met @sahilkphadnis when we were 16 and 18 years old. We were looking for roommates at UC Berkeley, and ended up starting a company together the same day we met. We recruited a team, built a product, launched, and then it flopped . hard. It was a tough pill to swallow. We.
🚨Big news: Affiniti raises $17M Series A led by @SignalFire to bring financial intelligence to the backbone SMBs of America. This round accelerates our plan to give owners visibility into their small business’s biggest blind spot: cash flow. 🧵 Here’s why this matters:
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We're a NYC startup that's using everything: Cursor, Claude Code, Cognition. We talk better than humans and our team is cracked. DM me if you want to be part of the best and brightest.
new york software startups don’t know what cursor is . sf software startups don’t know how to talk like a human . build a team that has both and you have a significant edge.
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I cold emailed @forwarddeploy a year ago to help Affiniti secure a partnership w/ Intuit, and it got done within 2 weeks. When it was time to decide which angels to let on our cap table, Umesh was a clear top-of-list.
enough about forward-deployed engineers. we need more forward-deployed angels. was thinking about this because one of our angels Umesh Khanna (@forwarddeploy) has just been pulling up on Sundays and going deep with us on the product problems we're dealing with, designing growth
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🚀 Saad is one of the most special founders I know - went from going bankrupt 7 times to 0->$1M+ ARR in months. Honored to have had this filmed in the Affiniti office :).
Introducing Nodes V2. HR Changes Forever, Starting Today!. Book a Demo Today At
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Our entire office was full today - and nearly every holiday. We want to win.
Trump says there are too many non-working holidays in the US.
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This month, Nilson Report featured Affiniti alongside some of the biggest news in the fintech industry. We're the youngest company to grace this front page. This is the most respected fintech publication in the world. And this has only been possible because of our team. We have
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RT @WesBayer: 1/ At six, @aaronbaii was flipping Pokémon cards for lunch money. At sixteen, he dropped out of Berkeley to raise millions f….
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Most of the world is average. Affiniti is not. We pay top dollar for top talent. If you are an engineer who is sick and tired of the mediocrity around you, DM me.
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I just set aside $125,000 on my credit card to buy you and your +1 the most luxurious Paris vacation of your life. All you have to do is introduce me to a software engineer that I hire. I'll pay for 2 first-class round trip tickets, and a 5-star hotel. We are assembling the
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Offdeal is building something special!.
🚨HIRING INVESTMENT BANKERS!!! $300-500K+ COMP🚨 We’re growing far faster than planned and need more 10× investment bankers to meet demand. Case study: Sam Mielke joined OffDeal four months ago. Today he’s running 8 exclusive sell-side mandates worth $3.8M in signed fees and
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RT @MiguelArmaza: We're proud to announce that we have closed @GilgameshVC Fund II, bringing our total assets under management to $35 milli….
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RT @SignalFire: 22% of SMBs can’t pay their bills and most still run on paper invoices. We’re leading @affinitifinance's $17M Series A to c….
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RT @rohitdotmittal: @ArfurRock @SignalFire @aaronbaii Talked to Aaron, and I ended up investing too.
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RT @MayaBakhai: All grown up!!!! Proud of @aaronbaii @sahilkphadnis for their focus and hustle building @affinitifinance. Grateful to be on….
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RT @jfiance: .@affinitifinance raises $17M led by @SignalFire. @aaronbaii and @sahilkphadnis are bringing Silicon Valley tech to small busi….
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Thank you @aidensparker for having me on Cascades to talk about how we're building the next gen Finance OS for SMBs!.
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RT @KamranAnsari: Congrats. Pumped for you and excited to support @aaronbaiiand and @sahilkphadnis with @affinitifinance. SMB credit will….
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RT @RichLightShed: Congrats @affinitifinance on raising your $17 million Series A with continued participation from @LightShedVC . Great pi….
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