Kosa vs. 4Degrees: Who You Know vs. What Was Said

4Degrees is a relationship intelligence and deal flow CRM built by former investors for private equity, venture capital and M&A teams. Kosa is an AI-native system of record for venture capital that turns the content of email, meetings and documents into structured records. Both reduce data entry. They differ in what they treat as the record.

What 4Degrees does well

4Degrees is built around relationships, and it does that work thoroughly:

• Relationship strength scoring that finds the best introduction to a company, investor or expert.
• Scores based on how frequently and recently the firm interacted with a contact through emails, meetings and shared calendar events.
• Alerts when key connections change jobs, publish, or appear in the news.
• Email and calendar sync with Gmail and Microsoft Exchange, plus Gmail and Outlook extensions.
• Enrichment from more than 20 sources, including PitchBook.
• A deal pipeline in list or Kanban views.
• Document Intelligence, which turns CIMs, pitch decks and PDFs into reviewable CRM suggestions, and an AI Assistant in 4Degrees and Slack.

4Degrees prices per user per month and shares pricing on request.

Relationship signals vs. recorded substance

4Degrees measures relationships: how often and how recently someone was in touch. That is the right signal for finding an introduction. A venture record also needs what those interactions said: the round size in a pitch thread, the runway in a founder update, the terms in a term sheet.

4Degrees has moved toward documents with Document Intelligence, which suggests CRM updates from decks and PDFs for a person to review. Kosa is built the other way around. Extraction from communication is the product, and the relationship graph comes from the same source.

What Kosa does differently

Kosa reads the communication itself. ARR, headcount, runway, milestones, and risks are extracted from board decks and founder update emails. Term sheets, board decks, and fund documents are parsed into structured fields. Relationships are built from real interaction patterns rather than manual logging.

Each extraction carries a confidence score. Ambiguous ones land in a review queue, and corrections teach the system. If the firm records contracted ARR rather than run-rate ARR, the team fixes it once and Kosa applies that convention to the next extraction. How Kosa works.

Setup is an OAuth connection to your firm's Gmail, not an implementation project.

Kosa vs. 4Degrees side by side

Who each fits

4Degrees fits private markets teams whose daily question is who knows whom, and who want enrichment, alerts and a pipeline built around that. Kosa fits venture firms that want the full record, deals, portfolio data and relationships, kept current from email and documents without anyone entering data. For the wider field, see how to choose a CRM for venture capital and Kosa vs. Affinity.

Frequently asked questions

What is 4Degrees?

4Degrees describes itself as an all-in-one relationship intelligence CRM platform built by ex-investors exclusively for firms in the private markets. It focuses on relationship strength scoring, introductions and deal flow.

Is 4Degrees for private equity or venture capital?

Both. 4Degrees lists private equity, venture capital, M&A, investment banking and consulting as its audiences.

How does 4Degrees compare with Affinity?

Both are relationship-intelligence CRMs for private markets with email and calendar sync, relationship strength scoring and enrichment. Compare enrichment sources, AI features and pricing in a demo. Affinity publishes per-user pricing; 4Degrees shares pricing on request.

Is Kosa a 4Degrees alternative?

Yes, for venture firms. Kosa replaces the CRM with a system of record that captures deals, portfolio data and relationships from the firm's email, meetings and documents.

Does Kosa score relationships?

Kosa builds relationships from real interaction patterns rather than manual logging, from the same communication it uses for deals and portfolio data.