Sam Toole

Partner@PrimaryVC. Investing in healthcare. Formerly @Nomad_health, Intrepid Pursuits, acksurf & acksurfschool. // 🏄

[Sam Toole @Samdtoole]

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.

[Sam Toole @Samdtoole]

@BSchech Let’s go!

[Brian Schechter @BSchech]

https://t.co/vmpKHbgXFo

[Etched @Etched]

We're coming out of stealth.

We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised.

Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads.

Our first racks ship this summer.

[Sam Toole @Samdtoole]

@Etched Let’s go!!

[Jason Shuman @JasonrShuman]

WeCompute would’ve cooked though

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

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.

[Primary @PrimaryVC]

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.

[Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad]

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 👇

https://t.co/v3o8RBbZ0r

[Etched @Etched]

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!):

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

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!

https://t.co/FZi7oDdWT0

[Sam Toole @Samdtoole]

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

[Sam Toole @Samdtoole]

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

[Oak HC/FT @oakhcft]

Our Summer’s End Celebration in New York was a success! We loved co-hosting with @PrimaryVC. What an exciting night to bring together such fantastic leaders across #healthcare and #fintech.

[Sam Toole @Samdtoole]

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!

[Mario Schlosser @mariots]

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: https://t.co/uQwuJAW9cT. 1/

[Sam Toole @Samdtoole]

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

[Sam Toole @Samdtoole]

@jfschneidr Toast!

[Sean Doolan @seanwdoolan]

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 ⏰

[Primary @PrimaryVC]

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.

https://t.co/EdMbfPZPfk

[Primary @PrimaryVC]

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.
https://t.co/1L8g7629SN

[Primary @PrimaryVC]

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.