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Affinity

YC S23

New York City, US · Founded 2023 · 2 employees · 17 known investors

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Affinity is an AI-powered internal compliance platform that helps organizations centralize policies, generate training from documents, track completion and risk, and produce audit-ready evidence. It serves Legal, HR, Finance, IT, and Operations teams across companies of various sizes.

Also known as Affinity Learning Inc.

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S23)

Affinity was founded in 2023 by Faraz Rana and Peter Greczner.

FRFaraz Rana
Faraz RanaCo-founder · CEOFaraz Rana has over 15 years of experience in startup operations and legal/compliance roles. He was a founding employee at Bread, a buy-now-pay-later fintech that reached a $450M exit, and previously worked as an M&A lawyer.
PGPeter Greczner
Peter GrecznerCo-FounderHe has spent nearly 15 years working with early-stage companies in AdTech, FinTech, and Crypto, and was a founding engineer at Bread, where he led the engineering team prior to its $500M acquisition.
RZ
Ray ZhouFounder
SG
Shubham GoelFounder

Investors · 17

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Affinity, operating as Affinity Learning Inc., offers an AI-powered internal compliance and knowledge management platform aimed at regulated companies and modern operating teams. The product combines four core areas: a hub for organizing internal policies and procedures with owner assignment, version tracking, review cycles and approval routing; AI tools that convert internal documentation into usable guidance for employees; a learning management system for company-wide training; and audit-oriented tracking and reporting intended for bank partners, auditors and regulators.

Training capabilities include off-the-shelf courses covering fintech and financial services regulation, information security and HR topics, plus a content authoring platform for building custom courses, SCORM support, campaigns, nudges and notifications, in-person training records, and data import/export from other LMS systems. The Cora Suite adds Imagine, which generates training material from policies and documents, and Cora, positioned as a 24/7 virtual compliance officer for on-demand answers. Additional documented features include a policy management portal, risk radar and embedded assessments, reporting, manager views, and support for users belonging to multiple organizations.

The platform supports both internal learner populations and external portfolios of companies, allowing an organization to manage compliance across sponsored or partner entities as well as its own employees. Positioning materials describe use for cross-functional compliance spanning HR and people operations, legal and compliance, risk and controls, operations, and product and IT, including SOC-oriented reporting.

Business model

Software-as-a-service platform sold to organizations, with sign-up through demo requests; the product spans policy management, training content and compliance reporting for internal teams and, in the case of sponsor organizations, for external portfolios of companies.

Not disclosed in available sources beyond a subscription-style software offering accessed by organizations after a demo and sign-up.

Traction

The company reports more than 100,000 training modules completed and an average course rating of 8.8/10; an earlier version of its site cited 6,500 course reviews and an 8.5/10 average rating. Its homepage names roughly 25 customer organizations, largely fintech and financial services companies.

Latest developments

The current website presents Affinity as an all-in-one AI-powered internal compliance platform, expanded from its earlier positioning as a compliance training and learning management system, with the Cora Suite (Cora and Imagine) added as AI capabilities and documentation covering a policy management portal and risk radar with embedded assessments.

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Positions itself as an all-in-one internal compliance platform combining policy management, LMS-based training and audit-ready reporting, contrasted in its own materials with legacy compliance training and learning management approaches. The website lists compliance teams at companies including Unit, Cherry, Atlas, Lithic, Albert, Slope, Bloom Credit, Novo, PerPay, Pomelo, Array, Current and Ansa as users.

Emphasizes AI generation of training directly from a company's own policies and documents, a single system spanning policy management, training and audit evidence rather than training alone, cross-functional use beyond compliance teams, and collaborative oversight features that let bank sponsors and partners review and approve training programs through secure data rooms.

Technology

AI-driven tooling branded as the Cora Suite: Imagine generates training content from internal policies and documents, while Cora answers employee compliance questions on demand. The platform also includes a dynamic rules engine for automating onboarding and reminders, dashboards and analytics, secure data rooms for external stakeholder review, SCORM support, role-based permissions, and integrations with Okta (OIDC single sign-on and SCIM provisioning) and Slack (microlearning delivery and reminders).

Go-to-market

Direct sales motion driven by demo requests and sign-ups on the company website, supported by published documentation, use-case guides, whitepapers for fintech and banking/BaaS audiences, a course catalog, and a blog. Customer testimonials come from compliance officers, operations leaders and founders, and bank-partner training requirements are cited as a recurring purchase driver.

Compliance, legal, HR and people operations, risk and controls, operations, and product and IT teams, with emphasis on regulated technology companies, fintechs including BNPL and banking-as-a-service programs, and their bank sponsors and partners.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Average course ratingJan 20268.8 out of 10
Course reviewsJan 20266,500 reviews
HeadcountAug 20269
Training modules completedJan 2026100,000 modules

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2026
Cora Suite: Cora virtual compliance officer and Imagine content generation

Affinity introduced the Cora Suite, combining Imagine, which turns policies and internal documents into training content, and Cora, described as a 24/7 virtual compliance officer that answers employee questions on demand.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
Affinity Learning Inc.

In the news

▸Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Affinity do?
AI-powered internal compliance and learning platform for policy management, training, tracking and audit reporting.
Who founded Affinity?
Affinity was founded by Faraz Rana, Peter Greczner in 2023.
Who are Affinity's investors?
Affinity's investors include Clocktower Ventures, Y Combinator, 8VC, Advance Venture Partners, Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, CRCM Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital and 9 more.
Where is Affinity headquartered?
Affinity is headquartered in New York City, US.