Sam Toole

1) For our next Healthcare Breakdowns, we are looking at GoodRx. GoodRx is a $2.6B company with a NPS of 90 (!) that lets consumer compare prescription prices and get discounts.

WeCompute would’ve cooked though

Early-stage rounds are taking a big leap in the age of AI, with @PrimaryVC just closing a $625M (!!) Fund V, with the goal of funding 40-50 companies over the next three years.

Fund V. $625M. Seed at Scale. Primary backs founders building things the world hasn't seen yet — at the moment before others believe. Today we announced our fifth fund. $625M for the next chapter in AI. For every founder who's betting everything on an idea the world hasn’t seen yet. This is what we were built for.

Anthropic and OpenAI made dueling announcements for the healthcare industry's big week at JPM. What's their push deeper into health AI mean for startups? I spoke to Anthropic's exec in charge, as well as a few founders and investors, to break it down 👇 upstartsmedia.com/p/8-takeaways-…

Introducing Oasis: the first playable AI-generated game. We partnered with @DecartAI to build a real-time, interactive world model that runs >10x faster on Sohu. We're open-sourcing the model architecture, weights, and research. Here's how it works (and a demo you can play!):

My conversation with @UbertiGavin We discuss: - what happens when models become multiples cheaper and faster - why hardware is a bottleneck - how data centers and semis will need to change - why scale rules Gavin is 21! The future is bright. Enjoy! joincolossus.com/episodes/73767…

@almostcmb Don’t forget the half pot of Mac and cheese that you eat with the wooden mixing spoon. Definitely healthier

One underrated reason having children makes you healthier The left over air fryer chicken nuggets you end up eating for dinner are on average better than whatever seed oil drenched Doordash order you would have had later

Really great time with spending time with the whole @oakhcft team and lots of amazing healthcare and fintech people last night!

Absolutely great way to kick off the #NYCSummit talking about all things healthcare sales with our friends and partners from @alley_corp, @ElektraHealth, & @Nomad_Health!

We @OscarHealth are publishing our use cases, prototypes, ideas & research notes on using LLMs in healthcare. AI research moves too fast for companies to do this work behind closed doors, so we’re sharing ours for others to read & comment: oscarai.notion.site. 1/

@bdickins @JasonrShuman @stoolpresidente There’s a high probability of that

@JasonrShuman @Samdtoole @stoolpresidente I must have served him beers in a previous life.

11 years ago I cold emailed the Founder of ACK Surf to see if he wanted to do a Partnership with my DTC Footwear startup. Today I'm proud to be able to call @Samdtoole my Partner and I'm grateful he replied to my cold email.

@jfschneidr Toast!

Which startup had the most success selling to SMBs?

i get asked this by LPs everyday: no, the seed market has not yet corrected ❌ reality: many seed founders still have '20-21 mindset, not baking in sufficient margin for error but plenty of $ available so prices remain elevated if not 🆙 a likely 'Series A crunch' awaits ⏰

For Spark, 2022 was an enormous growth year with the team driving a 10x in Medicare enrollments. With the announcement of a $15 million Series A, @Samdtoole examines strategies and insights that led to this enormous growth. primary.vc/firstedition/p…

Women's health is on the line in today's elections. @Samdtoole sat down with @_KateRyder to talk about how @mavenclinic is building better healthcare access for women and families. primary.vc/firstedition/p…

Women's healthcare is on the line with this week's elections. Health investor @Samdtoole discussed the issue with leading womens and family health startup founder @_KateRyder of @mavenclinic. Full interview coming soon.

@RajSetty @HarryStebbings @PrimaryVC @dukecass 🔥🔥🔥

@HarryStebbings It would be @PrimaryVC because @dukecass is wicked smart

If you could only invest in one venture firm over the next 10 years. Which firm would it be? Why them?

Not a sponsored post (don’t get me wrong I would happily take some free stuff 😜)….anyways I love @TegusHQ

@dvasishtha 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

Which early stage healthcare funds are actually deploying capital right now vs. taking meetings / slow rolling things?

@PrimaryVC New York City is trivia town 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

#LongNYC check: How does your phone complete the sentence "New York City is..."