Aaron Bai
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Fintech Founder @AffinitiFinance | @UCBerkeley
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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
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🚨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 hit 100,000 meals served and £1m+ of actual realised sales (not hypothetical ARR)
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From the outside, @affinitifinance might seem like an overnight success—but that couldn’t be further from the truth. This company was forged in the depths of adversity, forcing @aaronbaii and me to go back to first principles building. Here's our story: https://t.co/NVbRdiHJKI
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RT @rithika_ka: At age 21, I left Stanford to be employee #20 at Mercor, to learn from one of the world's greatest founders. Now at 22, I’m…
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Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford to wait to build their own artificial intelligence start-ups.
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4 years ago, Neil and I walked around downtown Berkeley talking about his Ad Tech business and my Stablecoin Payments business. Not enough people appreciate the journey it takes to find PMF. Congrats @NeilTewari and the @tryconversion team!
I’m excited to share that @tryconversion has raised a $28M Series A led by @AbstractVC to build the modern marketing automation platform. Four years ago, @james__jiao and I started Conversion out of our UC Berkeley dorm room. Since then, we’ve launched, pivoted, and rebuilt the
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Let's get it @leveredvlad
Excited to share that @tryoffdeal has raised a $12M Series A to build the world’s first AI-native investment bank, less than 10 months after our Seed. This year we already launched over 30 M&A sell-sides, and delivered numerous multi-million $ exits to our clients. A quick 🧵
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Introducing: https://t.co/nSZrlSsyRD. Our commitment to continuing to build the most powerful financial tech to solve Cash Flow for backbone America — for the next century and beyond. The world has had it backwards. Small businesses aren’t stuck in the past. They’re ready to
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Also a big thank you to our judges - Allison Kiang from @twelve_below , Ishaan Singh from Grand Charter, Tony Vantur from @affinitifinance
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Finance for SMBs -> AI CFO
seeing a wave of startups selling to smb's, with the goal of fully automating them later • workflow automation for marketing agencies -> ai marketer • software for design firms -> ai designer • software for home inspectors -> ai home inspector, sell direct to banks
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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 :)
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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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1/ At six, @aaronbaii was flipping Pokémon cards for lunch money. At sixteen, he dropped out of Berkeley to raise millions for a crypto neobank. At twenty-something, he shut it down—by choice. Here's the story of how he ideated and built what is now @affinitifinance. 👇
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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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