HISTORY

Initial algorithm developed by Zia and a small team in Zia’s flat in Washington, DC. It was 80 thousand lines of code. Today, the algorithm delivers 8 times the performance, is over 4 million lines of code, and only has 1200 lines identical with the original 2006 draft.

Initial testing conducted at the BPO IBEX contact center across 700 agents. Algorithm delivered 0.8% revenue gain and was declared a success!

Afiniti rented two rooms at 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.

Several patents submitted in 2008 including "Separate pattern matching algorithms and computer models based on available caller data", patent number 8634542 submitted in December 2008. Granted on January 21^st 2014.

Caesars Entertainment in Vegas launches in 2009 across 250 seats. Today we’re still delivering an average 7% improvement in sales in year.

After hospitality came our first telco client, T-Mobile, starting off optimizing telesales. John Birrer, the initial sales lead at T-Mobile is now Zia’s Chief of Staff.

Series-B, led by TRG closes, providing funding for R&D, taking total funding raised to $12.5M.

Funding used to build out data chaining and associated patents allowing multiple data sources to chain information to provide richer behavioral patterns.

McKinsey & Company forms a strategic partnership with Afiniti, and leads the Series-C round, closing in October 2014. To date, McKinsey and Afiniti have partnered on 21 projects.

Afiniti’s first enterprise agreement is signed with T-Mobile USA. Today, we’re live on 18,000 agents across 14 sites and deliver over $100M of proven incremental value each year.

Our venture into PayTV began with pilots at Sky and DTV in 2014, marking our fourth industry vertical.

Europe beckons and Afiniti signs on a space in Milbank Tower together with a pilot at the AA, marking our first insurance client. Today, the London team is over 30 people.

Our first global offsite took place; the first time the global team had been together in the same room.

Our global expansion sees a further seven offices open in the system to serve local clients.

In 2016, the global team all met in Dubai. This time with 484 team members, almost double the last global offsite.

A major milestone, SATMAP was renamed as Afiniti.

In 2017 we took a group of clients to the Himalayas on a heli-ski trip. The second ever group to ski the mountain range, almost everyone described the trip as the experience of a lifetime.

Bouygues, in France marked our 20^th live client.

Fourth generation of the algorithm, internally coded as "Wilson", delivered a revolution for our AI, and the results it delivers.

Afiniti is one of six founding members of Avaya’s AI.Connect initiative; Avaya’s leading AI partner group.

Our showcase office opens on the top floor of The Chrysler Building. In what used to be Walter P. Chrysler’s private apartment, the New York team of 10 people - and five nationalities - continue to grow into the New York Market.

Our global partnerships went up a notice, with 2017 marking agreements being signed with major telephony vendors across the world. Read more on our partner pages.

Afiniti’s healthcare product goes live, which improves medical adherence rates and life expectancy by pairing medical practitioners to patients. Read more here.

In December 2017, Afiniti was named by CBInsights, and later by Fortune as one of the 100 most promising A.I. companies in the world.

By the end of 2018, Afiniti is expected to be 22 offices. We still keep asking for a flume in one of the offices… we keep our fingers crossed!

On 1^st January 2018, the Afiniti team reaches 900, across 14 countries and 19 nationalities. We’re always on the look-out for amazing talent, so if you’re interested in joining us, have a look at the current opportunities we’re recruiting for across the world.

Avaya and Afiniti announce a partnership in one of the largest shake ups of the telephony industry in recent years. Avaya natively installs Afiniti’s AI on an exclusive basis within their telephony infrastructure, allowing its clients to benefit from Afiniti Enterprise Behavioral Pairing in record time.