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The Past Week in AI: The Prompt Box Is Dying (Apr 17–24)
The Past Week in AI: The Prompt Box Is Dying (Apr 17–24)
By Parul Singh | 645 Ventures The through-line this week came straight from a16z's new thesis: the prompt box is dying.…
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The Past Week in AI: Everyone's Pricing for Outcomes (Apr 10–17)Apr 20, 2026
The Past Week in AI: Everyone's Pricing for Outcomes (Apr 10–17)
By Parul Singh | 645 Ventures The through-line this week: the theory that you should sell outcomes, not software…
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AI Is Getting Better at Looking RightApr 14, 2026
AI Is Getting Better at Looking Right
Parul Singh | 645 Ventures A few weeks ago I co-hosted a dinner with a dozen people building AI products — not pitching…
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The Moat Isn't the Model — Week of April 3–9, 2026Apr 10, 2026
The Moat Isn't the Model — Week of April 3–9, 2026
By Parul Singh | 645 Ventures There's a thesis running through almost every major story this week: leverage beats…
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The Past Week in AIApr 4, 2026
The Past Week in AI
By Parul Singh, 645 Ventures Week of March 28 – April 3, 2026 SUBJECT LINE: Anthropic accidentally open-sourced their…
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Blockchains and bitcoins and ETH, oh my!Dec 4, 2017
Blockchains and bitcoins and ETH, oh my!
Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain. As 2017 comes to a close, this term is everywhere (or more accurately perhaps…
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Parul Singh shared thisSomeone guessed the URL to Anthropic's most dangerous model and got in. That's the dual-use AI story in one sentence. More in this week's PS on AI 👇The Past Week in AI: The Prompt Box Is Dying (Apr 17–24)The Past Week in AI: The Prompt Box Is Dying (Apr 17–24)Parul Singh
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Parul Singh shared thisOutcome based pricing went from thesis to pricing page. Meta went all-in. And Anthropic dropped a design tool that made Figma's stock nervous. This week in AI — link in comments.The Past Week in AI: Everyone's Pricing for Outcomes (Apr 10–17)The Past Week in AI: Everyone's Pricing for Outcomes (Apr 10–17)Parul Singh
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Parul Singh reposted thisThe countdown is on - under two weeks left to apply to delta v 2026 Massachusetts Institute of Technology flagship accelerator!!! We’re fortunate to have such an incredible community of leaders supporting the program and cohort! 🚀 👇🏽 If you’re an audacious MIT student founder building a consequential company - apply now! Link in comments. Bill Aulet Dharmesh Shah Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship MIT School of Engineering MIT Sloan School of ManagementParul Singh reposted thisExcited to be supporting MIT delta v this year as we kick start a new chapter for the accelerator. Looking forward to spending time directly with the cohort as part of its Inaugural Partner network. For those unfamiliar, delta v is MIT’s flagship startup accelerator for student founders, and the 2026 program has been redesigned to focus on a smaller group of highly committed teams building audacious companies. Selected teams receive: • $75K in equity-free funding • Over $200K in perks and partnerships • Direct access to founders, operators, and investors through the new Partner model • A full-time, in-person summer building at the Martin Trust Center in Boston The goal is simple: help teams spend the summer building something real that customers want and will pay for. Link to more details and the application in the comments.
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Parul Singh shared thisMy marketing agent used to cite fake papers. Relatively easy to catch. Then it started citing real papers that didn't support the claims it was making. The more capable AI gets, the better its mistakes get at hiding. A room full of founders building very different products told me they're seeing the same thing. I wrote it up here.
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Parul Singh shared thisGlass has quietly built the most accurate clinical AI product as benchmarked against the other leading healthcare models. Now available by API -- time to build!Parul Singh shared thisGlass 5.5 is now available through the Glass Developer API. Build with our most powerful clinical AI yet — which outperforms frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google across a nine-benchmark clinical accuracy evaluation suite. Here's what's new in Glass 5.5: - Improved clinical accuracy. Clinical reasoning, diagnostic accuracy, hallucination detection, evidence appraisal, and clinical documentation. - Enhanced capabilities. Clinical Q&A, differential diagnosis, treatment planning, documentation, patient data analysis, and triage. - Wider literature coverage. Improved coverage of the latest clinical guidelines and original research. - 70% lower token-based pricing. $3 / 1M input tokens, $16 / 1M output tokens. Access comprehensive documentation to start building today at https://lnkd.in/enxuUqye.
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Parul Singh shared thisThis week, the CTO of Workday quietly gave up his C-suite title to become an individual contributor at Anthropic. Not a board seat. Not advisory. Member of technical staff. That one move tells you more about where enterprise software is headed than a dozen analyst reports. This week's newsletter covers that story - plus: the NYT getting played by a GLP-1 startup with fake doctors and a class action lawsuit hiding in plain sight, why Anthropic is lapping the field in enterprise while barely showing up in consumer, and data on the AI model race that reads completely differently depending on which market you're watching. The thesis holding it together: the moat isn't the model. It's the margin. Link in comments.The Moat Isn't the Model — Week of April 3–9, 2026The Moat Isn't the Model — Week of April 3–9, 2026Parul Singh
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Parul Singh shared thisThis team ships at incredible velocity. We hit AGI for software engineers a few months ago, data engineers are next.Parul Singh shared thisTwo years ago, we launched the first version of DinoAI as a chatbot you could ask questions about your data stack. Last year, we turned it into a copilot that wrote code alongside you. So what's next? Today, we're launching 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗔𝗜 𝘃𝟯.𝟬 - and it's the biggest bet we've made at paradime.io so far. 🦖 Here's the honest story of how we got here. Over the past few months, I've spent a lot of time talking to customers about what DinoAI was actually doing for them. People loved it for writing code, building models, fixing pipelines. But every single conversation kept circling back to the same frustration: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁. 𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀." A finance leader would request a dashboard update. It would become a ticket. The ticket would sit in a backlog. It would miss a sprint. It would get picked up two weeks later. By the time the report was delivered, the month was over and the decision had been made without it. I kept hearing versions of the same story. And I realized we'd been solving the wrong problem. We were making coding faster - but coding was never the bottleneck. 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀. So we rebuilt DinoAI from the ground up as a true background agent. Not a copilot. Not a chatbot. A teammate. You invoke it from Slack. You describe the problem in plain language - no SQL, no dbt™ knowledge required. It builds a context graph from your repo, warehouse, lineage, and docs. It spins up an isolated sandbox, does the work, and hands you a pull request. The whole thing takes under five minutes. Ten to twenty days → five minutes. That's not an incremental improvement. It's a step-change in how data teams operate. A few numbers I'm really proud of: → 𝟵𝟰% 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 on real data engineering tasks (vanilla Claude sits at 30–35%) → 𝟴𝟴.𝟯𝟳% 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗯𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀' 𝗔𝗗𝗘-𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 — the highest score in the industry. → 𝟵𝟴.𝟰𝟱% 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 — 254 of 258 tests across 43 real-world tasks on ADE-bench → Works across every major warehouse and every data engineering workflow we could think of But the number that matters most to me is different. It's the idea that 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿. Not as a metaphor. Literally. A finance analyst in Slack can now ship production-grade data work without waiting on a sprint or learning dbt™. Huge kudos to the Paradime team for pulling this together and I couldn't be prouder of what we've built together. And to every customer who pushed us, challenged us, and told us what wasn't working: this one's for you 🙏. We're running a 𝟯𝟬-𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆. No usage limits. No commitment. If you lead a data team - or wait on one — I'd genuinely love for you to try it and tell me what you think. DMs are open.
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Parul Singh shared thisEvery single day in the past 2 weeks, there have been >1 AI news drops: model releases, hacks, acquisitions. Zooming out, I'm sending many of these news items to my 645 team, sparking a slew of interesting conversations. I compiled and decided to share them here too, plus some rough notes on implications. Testing this out, let me know if you find this valuable.
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Parul Singh reposted thisParul Singh reposted thisWE ARE HIRING AT Cofertility! Come help shape the future of egg freezing and family building, and work with an incredible (all-remote) team and all-star CEO, Lauren Makler. We're looking for: * Head of marketing * Analytics engineer * Brand marketing lead * Member advocate * Clinical operations specialist * Director, Program Growth & Operations No need to reach out to me about the open roles, as I do not have the capacity to reply. You can apply directly here: https://lnkd.in/geNHN_Ng
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Parul Singh reacted on thisParul Singh reacted on thisTIME has named Overstory one of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2026, and one of the Top 10 in Sustainability for our work helping utilities prevent power outages and wildfires. This recognition is a testament to the critical moment we’re facing and the important work Overstory is leading. The grid was never built for the storms and wildfires that utilities now face every year. But for the first time, remote sensing makes it possible to direct finite resources exactly where they will prevent outages and wildfires before they start. Today, the largest utilities in North America are trusting Overstory to help them make these decisions. I’m so proud of the talented, mission-driven Overstory team, and grateful for our fantastic community that pushes us further at every step along the way. Thank you, TIME, for recognizing the impact of our work. https://lnkd.in/eq8NtrqGThe 10 Most Influential Sustainability Companies of 2026The 10 Most Influential Sustainability Companies of 2026
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Parul Singh reacted on thisParul Singh reacted on this"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it was beautiful." - Dr. Seuss Even though my Reach Capital chapter is closing, I have so many things to smile about. I can’t believe it’s been 14 years since starting back at NewSchools and making my first edtech investment. Time flies when you are having fun backing visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of learning, health and work. I never imagined Reach would grow to over $570M in AUM or that our portfolio companies would touch the lives of millions of people around the world. I am proud of what we built at Reach and also grateful for the journey along the way. I grew so much from flying across the world for fundraising meetings, coaching founders through difficult decisions, passing on deals that later became successes, asking tough questions at company board meetings, navigating M&A processes, and of course building an incredible team. The best part of Reach was working alongside smart, thoughtful, and mission-aligned teammates. I have no doubt the team will carry forward the values, rigor, and purpose that define Reach. I want to give a special thank you to my mentor turned partner Jennifer Carolan. Thanks for taking a chance on me, opening my eyes to the world of VC and showing me how you can have impact alongside financial return. I learned so much from you including first principles thinking and putting relationships at the center of our work. To my LPs: thank you for your unwavering support and believing in our vision To my Founders: thank you for letting me be a part of your journey and for taking the risk to make this world a better place And thank you to the multitude of others that I have had the pleasure of meeting along this journey. With this chapter closing, I will be taking some time off to reflect, relax, and recharge. 🙏🏿 “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” - Mahatma Gandhi Wayee Chu Esteban Sosnik James Kim Jomayra Herrera Steve Kupfer Jim Lobdell Jennifer Wu Enzo Cavalie Caoimhe MacRunnels Tony Wan Amanda Maestri Joshua Lesko Dehong Huang Valentina Suarez Gutierrez Maria Soto-Torres Winnie W. Ng Yina L. Ia Balbuena
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Parul Singh reacted on thisParul Singh reacted on thisThere are opportunities in life that push you way outside of your comfort zone. On this occasion, meeting the sitting President of the United States was the easy part. During my college years, I was a member of The Baker's Dozen, one of Yale's a cappella groups. We were invited to perform at The White House. As a Bass 2, I had one solo: the song "Little Red Riding Hood,” a flirtatious little number from 1966. Which I sang directly to First Lady Laura Bush. While President Bush watched. Oh, and armed Secret Service, too. Somewhere between the first note and the last, something clicked—I stopped managing the anxiety and just performed, coy lyrics and all. I've stood on a lot of stages since that day: Beyond4, RLC, and rooms full of restaurant operators who know their business better than anyone. Each time, I lean on lessons I learned in that East Wing performance: confidence, trust in myself and my team, and the guts to go all in. Even when it's not obvious in the moment, every opportunity is building you for what comes next.
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Parul Singh reacted on thisParul Singh reacted on thisI'm grateful for Washingtonian Magazine for including me in their "500 Most Influential People Shaping Policy" List - but I always feel that recognition like this is really a reflection of our team's outstanding work. So thanks to our tremendous team for the great work they do: Drew Ambrogi Koustubh "K.J." Bagchi Allie Caccamo Vidushi Dyall, JD Adam Eisgrau Kathleen Farley Billy Feldmann Brett Fleming Patrick Grady Kaitlyn Harger Kayvan Hazemi Jebelli Patrick Hills Aden Hizkias Tahra Hoops Hope Ledford Matthew Lipka Kouri Marshall Jack Miller Sol Ortega Max Raymond Sean Sheppheard, AFC® Robert Singleton Josh Tabish Dave Vorland Gary Winslett
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Parul Singh liked thisParul Singh liked thisThere are two kinds of people after dinner: Those who ask, “Can I help?” And those who are already doing the dishes. One sounds helpful. One is. This plays out on every team every day. Don't wait for permission. Do the dishes.
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Parul Singh liked thisParul Singh liked thisI just open-sourced The Dominion List – a database of 430 US tech companies founded by Canadians. $347B raised. 53 unicorns. Companies like Tesla, OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber, Slack, and Cloudflare. There's been a lot of debate about whether Canadian founders need to move to the US to build at scale. Everyone has opinions, but there was no canonical dataset. So I built one. The thing that struck me most: University of Waterloo alone is originating 1 out of 3 companies in the dataset. University of Toronto is second, McGill University third. The Canadian talent pipeline into US tech is enormous and largely undocumented, until now. I also built this because Canadian founders I talk to often don't realize how many came before them. The list of people who made this journey and what they built is extraordinary. I wanted the next generation to be able to see it. The full dataset, methodology, and interactive analytics are open source at dominionlist.com If you're interested in the data, or know a company that should be included, drop a comment or have your favorite coding agent submit a PR on Github :)
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Tom Lazay
Companyon Ventures • 5K followers
An emerging VC manager's fundraising lessons... the first two funds are a grind. Now, we’re on our third fund, it feels like we’re almost over the hump, but fundraising never gets easy for most of us. I want to congratulate the emerging VC firms presenting at this year’s RAISE Global conference. As former RAISE presenters, and (soon-to-graduate) emerging managers, we thought we’d share this LP Translator, a lighthearted guide to decoding what LPs really mean during the fundraising process. Fellow GPs, which ones did I miss? 👇 The LP Translator 📣 "Let’s stay in touch.” Translation: We’re not interested. “We want to see your track record develop.” Translation: Either we don't believe in your strategy, or we’re focused on managers with more buzz. “We’re not allocating to new managers right now.” Translation: We’re not allocating to you right now. "Show us your deals so we can get to know you.” Translation: We’d like free co-invests if you get something hot. “We need to see more DPI before we commit.” Translation: We don’t really understand VC, but we’re pretending to. “We’re fully allocated for this year; check in early next year.” Translation: Next year we’ll still be fully allocated (just not to you). “Call us before final close.” Translation: I’m too polite to say no at this time, so I’m kicking the can down the road. “Your fund is too small.” Translation: Okay, that one might actually be true (for some LPs). “We went through your data room and want to meet face-to-face.” Translation: We’re genuinely interested, keep going! “Can you send us your LPA for signature?” Translation: Let’s go! 🚀 -------------------------- Fundraising is a long game, longer than we ever expected. We're now seeing how LP relationships are built across several funds, not several months. If they’re investing time to learn about you and your strategy, that’s your best signal of real interest. #emergingmanager #venturecapital #LP #RAISEGLOBAL
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Medha Agarwal
defy.vc • 16K followers
I’m thrilled to announce defy.vc’s investment in Birches Health as part of their $20M combined Seed and Series A funding round, alongside incredible partners like AlleyCorp, General Catalyst, Will Ventures, and others. As someone deeply passionate about backing companies that tackle important problems for our society, I couldn’t be more excited about what Birches is building—a national virtual clinic dedicated to treating gambling addiction and related behavioral disorders like gaming, sex, porn, and internet addictions. What excites me most is Birches’ innovative health assurance model: proactive, accessible, and affordable care that’s evidence-based and delivered right at home. With the explosion of legal sports betting—think nearly $1.5 billion wagered on this year’s Super Bowl alone—we’re staring down a looming public health emergency. Traditional options like hotlines or generic therapy fall short for this high-acuity issue, but Birches changes that by offering specialized therapy from trained clinicians, multimodal treatment, and peer support, all covered by major insurers like United Healthcare, Cigna, Aetna, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. It’s available in all 50 states, breaking down geographical and financial barriers that have left so many without help. The impact is already profound: 96% of patients report an improved quality of life, and 94% give Birches a 5/5 rating. By partnering with state governments, payors, and policymakers, Birches is pushing gambling addiction into the spotlight of behavioral health conversations, where it’s been neglected for too long—often leading to shame, worsened outcomes, and higher suicidality risks. This funding will supercharge their growth: expanding the provider network, boosting clinical excellence, scaling infrastructure, and deepening insurance and state partnerships to meet surging demand. Very excited to partner with Elliott Rapaport and the entire Birches team! See more about our POV in the blog post linked in the comments. #GamblingAddiction #BehavioralHealth #HealthTech #VentureCapital #Innovation
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Steve Vassallo
Foundation Capital • 15K followers
I’ve come to believe that early experiences carry disproportionate weight - far more than we often acknowledge. For designers and builders, “minimum viable” may suffice for validating core functionality, but it rarely earns trust or sparks genuine delight. While velocity matters, I’ve always struggled with the notion that early versions should be merely viable, especially in a world where attention is scarce and emotional resonance is everything. This extends beyond product. Do you show up as the minimum viable version of yourself in your work, your relationships, your craft? I would encourage you to challenge the conventional MVP framework. Replace it with the Minimum Awesome Product. This doesn’t mean it’s fully-featured or pixel perfect. But it should be worthy of attention. Memorable, even evocative in the way it triggered emotion. The kind of product that prompts someone to say, “I didn’t know I needed this, but now I can’t live without it.” You can refine mechanics over time, but the emotional experience of a first interaction is singular and unrecoverable. Don’t settle for viability. Build something worth remembering… and make it awesome! ❤️🔥
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Jason Shuman
Primary Venture Partners • 38K followers
I’ve spoken to over 2 dozen MDs at PE firms I can confidently say that the arb of figuring out how to implement Vertical AI at portfolio companies is very real right now It will fundamentally change underwriting for those who can do it predictably and unlock generational returns. Most are aware they need to act. Very few have.
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