Rings AI

What Rings AI does

Rings AI operates an AI-powered relationship intelligence CRM — branded as an "XRM" — designed for firms whose business runs on recurring, multi-stakeholder professional relationships rather than transactional sales pipelines. The company's stated core thesis is that legacy CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot) are built around single-entity lead tracking and are poorly suited to industries like venture capital, private equity, investment banking, fund of funds, secondaries, recruiting, and professional services, where deals involve many people and entities across multi-year horizons. Founder Martin Gedalin, with 20 years operating inside venture capital, developed the platform's foundational technology over three years prior to launch.

The product is a single platform composed of roughly a dozen modules: a core CRM record system, Pathpower® (a registered-trademark network mapping engine that plots paths through investors, advisors, and board members), Pipeline & Dealflow tracking, Notes & Context, Projects & Fundraising, Creation & Enrichment (zero-click reconstruction of the relationship graph from email history), Complete Relationships (consolidated activity, scoring, and notes), People & Company Data (150M+ records including 30 years of venture round history), Round-by-Round Data, Proactive AI & Agents (meeting prep, daily briefs, AI-generated tasks), Talk to Notes (natural-language query interface over the dataset), and Activity Capture (email and meeting sync with privacy controls). The platform ships with proprietary relationship-strength scoring, a proprietary association data model that allows unlimited people-and-company combinations on any process, and integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Gmail, Microsoft 365, LinkedIn, Google Calendar, Zapier (7,000+ apps), and an API plus MCP connector. AI capabilities are powered by a multi-model stack including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Cohere, and Groq.

Commercially, Rings AI sells through a demo-driven enterprise field-sales motion, targeting firm-wide deployments at $10k–$100k ARR per customer on annual subscriptions. It has no public pricing and no self-serve or PLG tier; a 14-day free trial is the only no-commitment entry point. The company is headquartered in New York, has 11–50 employees, is privately held at seed stage with $7.13M raised in February 2025, and is backed by Coelius Capital, Everywhere Ventures, Galaxy Interactive, and 40+ angels drawn from its target verticals. It is EU-U.S./UK/Swiss Data Privacy Framework certified and GDPR compliant, with operations serving the US, EU, UK, and Switzerland.

Name

Rings AI

Legal name

Rings AI Inc

Website

https://rings.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Rings AI provides an AI-powered relationship intelligence CRM ("XRM") for relationship-led firms in venture capital, private equity, investment banking, and professional services. Its platform automates relationship mapping, scoring, meeting prep, and deal-flow tracking across multi-stakeholder processes.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

CRM Software (Relationship Intelligence / XRM)

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Customer Service, Support & Contact Center CRM (HDAEAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

B2B SaaS & Enterprise Personalization (CRM, Sales, Support) (HDAAAGAJ), Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

Keywords

• Relationship intelligence CRM
• Venture capital software
• Private equity CRM
• Deal flow management
• AI network mapping

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: CRM software subscription for relationship-led industries. High-ACV B2B SaaS deals ($10k-$100k ARR). Subscription-based pricing model with demo-driven enterprise sales.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Rings AI sells an AI-powered CRM/XRM software platform designed for recurring, multi-stakeholder professional relationships in private markets and professional services. The platform automatically builds a relationship graph from email and meeting history, scores relationship strength, and overlays 150M+ people and company data points. It is delivered as a B2B SaaS subscription sold to VC, PE, investment banking, fund of funds, professional services, secondaries, and recruiting firms, with annual contract values of $10k–$100k ARR and a 14-day free trial.

Product overview

Rings AI is a CRM platform designed for recurring relationships, contrasting with transactional CRMs built for sales leads. The core platform is Rings AI CRM, which includes several integrated modules: Pathpower® for network mapping, Pipeline & Dealflow for tracking processes, Notes & Context for capturing knowledge, Projects & Fundraising for flexible process tracking, Creation & Enrichment for automatic relationship building, Complete Relationships for consolidated relationship views, People & Company Data for market intelligence with 150M+ records, Round-by-Round Data for fundraising histories, Proactive AI & Agents for AI-powered insights, Talk to Notes for natural language data queries, and Activity Capture for email/meeting synchronization. The platform serves relationship-led industries including venture capital, private equity, investment banking, fund of funds, professional services, secondaries, and recruiting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rings AI CRM Platform The Rings AI CRM Platform is an AI-powered XRM/CRM software built for teams that run on recurring professional relationships (venture capital, private equity, investment banking, fund of funds, professional services, secondaries, recruiting). It automatically builds a relationship graph from email and meeting history, scores relationship strength, overlays 150M+ people and company records, and serves AI-powered meeting prep, daily briefs, relationship summaries, and natural-language queries. Sold as a B2B SaaS subscription with firm-wide enterprise deployments at $10k–$100k ARR, with a 14-day free trial.
• Pathpower® Pathpower® is Rings AI's proprietary network-mapping technology that instantly plots a team's network across the market by mapping relationships to investors, advisors, board members, and other influencers beyond company employees. It surfaces path depth and connection strength so users can determine if introductions can be made internally. Pathpower® is a registered trademark of Rings AI.

Quantifiable outcome

• Zero manual data entry required for relationship creation
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration13 records

AI capability7 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

21 partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ZapiercoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration partner. Provides automation workflow connectivity to 7,000+ apps, enabling customers to trigger smart actions when deals move, contacts change jobs, or key introductions happen.
• Claude (Anthropic)coreTechnology or IntegrationAI integration partner for advanced relationship intelligence. Powers summarization of communications, surfacing key insights, and generation of warm outreach suggestions.
• Gmail/Google WorkspacecoreTechnology or IntegrationEmail synchronization and inbox integration. Automatically syncs communication history and identifies warm introduction paths.
• Google CalendarcoreTechnology or IntegrationMeeting integration that surfaces shared connections, portfolio overlaps, and conversation starters for every meeting attendee.
• Google GeminicoreTechnology or IntegrationAI integration for relationship insights analysis, conversation analysis, shared connection detection, and intelligent next-step recommendations.
• HubSpotcoreTechnology or IntegrationCRM enrichment partner. Auto-syncs contact histories, identifies warm introduction paths, and surfaces AI-powered insights within HubSpot.
• LinkedIncoreTechnology or IntegrationNetwork integration for instant connection importing, automatic job change tracking, and discovery of warm paths through extended LinkedIn relationships.
• Microsoft 365/ExchangecoreTechnology or IntegrationCorporate email and meeting integration with enterprise security and compliance standards.
• OpenAIcoreTechnology or IntegrationAI partner for GPT-powered personalized outreach generation, relationship pattern analysis, and strategic networking advice.
• SalesforcecoreTechnology or IntegrationCRM enrichment partner. Bridges traditional CRM with relationship intelligence, enriching Salesforce data with network insights and warm introduction paths.
• Crunchbase InccoreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for database enrichment services.
• RocketReach.cocoreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for database enrichment services.
• Proxycurl LLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for database enrichment services.
• Bright Data, Inc.coreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for database enrichment and news integration.
• People Data Labs, Inc.coreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for database enrichment services.
• Amazon Web Services, Inc.coreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for data hosting services, zero-shot classification, reranking and vector embeddings for news filtering.
• Nylas, Inc.coreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for email synchronization.
• OpenAI OpCo, LLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for natural language processing and data enrichment.
• Anthropic, PBCcoreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for natural language processing.
• Cohere Inc.coreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for reranking and vector embeddings.
• Google, LLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationSub-processor for Google Workspace and platform integration.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Attio: Attio is a modern, AI-native CRM built on a flexible data model that allows relationships between any entities. While it targets a broader audience than Rings, its association-style data architecture and AI-first approach mirror Rings' design philosophy for relationship-rich workflows.
• 4Degrees: 4Degrees is an AI-driven relationship intelligence platform focused on capturing and surfacing professional networks for dealmakers. Comparable in target market (VC/PE) and core value prop of relationship graph automation, though with a smaller feature footprint than Rings.
• Folk CRM: Folk is a lightweight relationship-focused CRM emphasizing contact management and relationship tracking for dealmakers and founders. Comparable in its relationship-first positioning and target audience overlap with early-stage VC users of Rings.

Broad incumbents

• Salesforce: Salesforce is the dominant enterprise CRM with Einstein AI and Sales Cloud extending into relationship intelligence. As the largest incumbent CRM, it represents the primary long-term competitive threat as it layers AI relationship features onto its installed base.
• HubSpot: HubSpot is a broad CRM and marketing platform with AI features (ChatSpot, Breeze) increasingly competing in relationship intelligence. Rings already integrates with HubSpot, positioning it as both a complementary and potentially competitive incumbent as HubSpot adds dealmaker features.
• Pipedrive: Pipedrive is an established sales CRM focused on pipeline management for SMB and mid-market sales teams. Overlaps with Rings in pipeline/dealflow functionality but lacks Rings' association data model and relationship graph intelligence.

Others

• Notion: Notion is a collaborative workspace used by VC/PE firms as a lightweight CRM substitute. While not a direct CRM competitor, it represents the "spreadsheets-and-docs" workflow that Rings displaces, making it an indirect competitor in the same buyer budgets.
• Airtable: Airtable is a flexible low-code database platform frequently used by VC and PE teams to build custom relationship/dealflow trackers. Like Notion, it competes for the same budget allocation that relationship-led firms would otherwise spend on dedicated CRMs like Rings.

Direct peers

• Affinity: Affinity is the closest direct peer — an AI-powered relationship intelligence platform built specifically for dealmakers in VC, PE, and investment banking. Both companies target the same recurring-relationship pain points and offer automated relationship graph capture from email/calendar.
• DealCloud: DealCloud provides CRM and deal management software purpose-built for investment banking, PE, and capital markets. Like Rings, it serves relationship-led dealmaking workflows with pipeline and contact intelligence for multi-stakeholder processes.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/RingsApp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rings-ai

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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