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Affirm
Offers a platform for digital and mobile-first commerce
At a glance
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2021
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
News
Reevo buys prospecting agent Ciro to fold outreach into its AI sales platform
Jul 8, 2026
News
Koho becomes Canada's latest unicorn following C$130M Series E round
Jun 11, 2026
News
Fintech lending's funding moment: how Upstart, LendingClub, SoFi and Affirm are rewriting the capital stack
May 29, 2026
Market map
Startup and companies providing Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Affirm.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed5 investors entered at this stage
Scott Banister
Craft Ventures
Cyan Banister- DSDavid Sacks
- HLHVF Labs
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Lightspeed Venture Partners- NPNyca Partners
Khosla Ventures
Series B and later16 investors entered at this stage
Sound Ventures
Wellington Management
Durable Capital Partners
Fidelity Investments
Spark Capital- JGJefferies Group
Founders Fund
GIC
Ribbit Capital
Baillie Gifford
Ashton Kutcher
Thrive Capital
Battery Ventures
Andreessen Horowitz
Caffeinated Capital- MFMoore Asset Backed Fund
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Affirm employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
TLThinking Machines LabEst. 2024
Lilian WengUnited States
CHChalkEst. 2022
Elliot MarxUnited States
MMMariana MineralsEst. 2024
Juan LozanoUnited States
Sambhav AnandUnited States
Helen HastingsUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
53 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Affirm was the backer or acquirer, 2015–2023. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
12 deals across Affirm's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Affirm deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Affirm's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Affirm on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
See Affirm on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.