Pranav Kanchi

Things I've done

1. Nov 2026Vercel Security Review public betaVercel
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2. Oct 2026Vercel CI public betaVercel
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3. Oct 2026Vercel Agent validates alerts before pagingVercel
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4. Oct 2026Vercel Agent sessions now cost 67% lessVercel
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5. Oct 2026Custom Monitors in Vercel ObservabilityVercel
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6. Oct 2026Deleted deployments are permanently removed soonerVercel
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7. Oct 2026Introducing Token PassVercel
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8. Oct 2026Deployment Storage billing begins for existing Pro teamsVercel
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9. Oct 2026New Pro teams now default to 30-day deployment retentionVercel
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10. Oct 2026Free Microfrontends Routing for firewall-mitigated trafficVercel
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11. Sep 2026Deployments now show billable duration and CPU minutesVercel
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12. Sep 2026Why Vercel tightened its free-tier rulesThe New Stack · CoverageMeredith Shubel on the Hobby deployment-retention changes.
13. Sep 2026Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storageVercel
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14. Sep 2026Flat Rate CDN is now GA for Pro teamsVercel
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15. Sep 2026Basic build machines are now available on Pro and EnterpriseVercel
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16. Aug 2026Vercel Sandbox now calculates snapshot storage costs dailyVercel
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17. Aug 2026Vercel Connect is now generally availableVercelWorked on token and trigger pricing for Connect GA.
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18. Aug 2026Speed Insights now has a free tierVercel
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19. Aug 2026Always-on Tracing betaVercelWorked on beta pricing.
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20. Aug 2026Deployment Storage keeps your deployments rollback-readyVercel
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21. Aug 2026Custom Metrics in Vercel ObservabilityVercelWorked on Custom Metrics pricing.
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22. Aug 2026Vercel Agent in Slack Code ChannelsVercel
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23. Aug 2026Vercel for SlackVercel
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24. Aug 2026Export AI Gateway traces with Vercel DrainsVercel
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25. Jul 2026Edge Config is now Global ConfigVercel
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26. Jul 2026Introducing the new Vercel AgentVercel · Product blogThe expanded Vercel Agent launch post by Amelia Charles.
27. Jul 2026Web Analytics and Speed Insights are now more cost-efficientVercel
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28. Jun 2026An expanded Vercel Agent: chat, investigations, and approved actions, now in public betaVercel
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29. Jun 2026Vercel Agent has updated pricingVercel
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30. Jun 2026Guillermo Rauch at Stanford: Applications and Coding AIVercel · Lecture supportSupported Guillermo Rauch’s MS&E 435 guest lecture. Stanford Online published the recording in June 2026.
31. Jun 2026Vercel Connect public previewVercel
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32. May 2026Function invocations now billed per unitVercel
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33. May 2026Flat Rate CDN limited betaVercel
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34. May 2026Firewall‑mitigated traffic is free on VercelVercel
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35. May 2026SAP + v0: Joule Studio partnershipVercel · Commercial partnershipWorked on the deal and commercial sale for the SAP/v0 partnership announced at SAP Sapphire.
36. Apr 2026Hobby projects now default to 30-day deployment retentionVercel
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37. Apr 2026Deployment retention policies now preserve active branch deploymentsVercel
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38. Apr 2026Reduced pricing for Turbo build machinesVercelContributed to build-machine repricing and a common CPU-minute pricing model. Announced April 15, with rollout scheduled to begin April 27.
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39. Apr 2026Elastic Build Machines GAVercel
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40. Apr 2026Base fee for Observability Plus removedVercel
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41. Mar 2026Elastic Build Machines betaVercel
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42. Dec 2025Databricks: Series L financingGoldman Sachs
43. Dec 2025Sonar: Initial term loan financingGoldman Sachs
44. Nov 2025Teradata: Share repurchase authorizationGoldman Sachs
45. Oct 2025Ping Identity: Term loan B refinancingGoldman Sachs
46. Sep 2025SingleStore: Growth buyout by Vector CapitalGoldman Sachs
47. Jul 2025Scale Computing: Merger with AcumeraGuggenheim PartnersFinancial modeling, diligence and management presentation work.
48. Jun 2024Why Fine-Tuning is (Probably) Not for YouPromptLayer · WritingPromptLayer essay on the trade-offs between fine-tuning, prompting, and retrieval.
49. Nov 2023 - Jun 2024PromptLayerSoftware engineering and technical writing for prompt management and evaluation tools.
50. Aug 2020 - May 2024NYU Entrepreneurial Exchange GroupStartup programs, venture workshops, and mentoring. Later served as president.
51. Apr 2024Rubrik: IPOGuggenheim PartnersEarly IPO diligence, valuation and market analysis during the 2023 summer internship.
52. Apr 2024Our Favorite Prompts from the TournamentPromptLayer · WritingPromptLayer write-up on the prompt engineering approaches used by tournament participants.
53. Dec 2023Pranav Kanchi on NYU EEGInterviewInterview with Boring Business Nerd about building an entrepreneurship community at NYU.
54. Jun 2023 - Aug 2023CalAmp: Restructuring and strategic alternativesGuggenheim PartnersOperating models, valuation analysis and management presentation work in 2023, ahead of the company's 2024 restructuring.
55. May 2022 - Sep 2022Bullet Point NetworkVenture investment memos, company diligence, and probabilistic financial scenarios.
56. Aug 2021 - May 2022Arcadia Investment PartnersTMT investment research, operating models, and valuation analysis.
57. Apr 2021 - Aug 2021RillaVoiceMultilingual topic modeling and analytics for sales conversations.
58. Dec 2020 - Mar 2021MunchBuilt an iPhone restaurant-discovery prototype and matching algorithm with Swift and Firebase.
59. Dec 2018 - Dec 2019CerraCap VenturesEarly-stage company screening, diligence, and portfolio monitoring.
60. Jun 2019 - Sep 2019Tel Aviv University, LAMBDA LabMachine learning research and a Python implementation of a weighted information-gain classifier.
61. Jun 2019 - Jul 2019Data Science GroupFinancial-news NLP and machine learning models for the Quantix trading algorithm.