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## [Parag Agrawal's AI startup wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work](https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/parag-agrawal-parallel-startup-pay-publishers-when-ai-agents-use-their-work/)

Fortune

May 19, 2026

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Parag Agrawal's AI startup wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work

## [Ex-Twitter CEO's AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ex-twitter-ceos-ai-startup-raises-funds-at-2-billion-valuation-63c927fc)

The Wall Street Journal

Apr 28, 2026

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Ex-Twitter CEO's AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation

## [Parallel and the Future of the Web | Travers Nisbet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT80EwucA34)

Terrain Capital

May 26, 2026

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Parallel and the Future of the Web | Travers Nisbet

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Terrain Capital

May 26, 2026

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- [Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzFgVS9ngM)

First Round Capital

May 21, 2026

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- [An Interview with Parallel Founder Parag Agrawal About Valuing Content on the Agentic Web](https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-parallel-founder-parag-agarwal-about-valuing-content-on-the-agentic-web/)

Stratechery

May 21, 2026

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- [Parallel Launches Index, A New Model For Compensating Content Owners](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/parallel-launches-index-a-new-model-for-compensating-content-owners-302775367.html)

PR Newswire

May 19, 2026

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- [Parag Agrawal's AI startup wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work](https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/parag-agrawal-parallel-startup-pay-publishers-when-ai-agents-use-their-work/)

Fortune

May 19, 2026

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- [Paying Content Creators in the AI Age: Parallel CEO Parag Agrawal on the Launch of Index](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/05/19/paying-content-creators-in-the-ai-age-parallel-ceo-parag-agrawal-on-the-launch-of-index.html)

CNBC

May 19, 2026

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- [Launching Index by Parallel with Carra Wu](https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2056836032411353337)

MTS

May 19, 2026

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- [Who is Parag Agrawal? This Indian-American CEO, fired by Elon Musk, is now leading a Rs 16,000 crore company](https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/who-is-parag-agrawal-this-indian-american-ceo-fired-by-elon-musk-is-now-leading-a-rs-16000-crore-company/articleshow/130674009.cms)

Economic Times

May 1, 2026

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- [Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/parallel-web-systems-hits-2b-valuation-five-months-after-its-last-big-raise/)

TechCrunch

Apr 29, 2026

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- [Ex-Twitter CEO's AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ex-twitter-ceos-ai-startup-raises-funds-at-2-billion-valuation-63c927fc)

The Wall Street Journal

Apr 28, 2026

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- [Parag Agrawal (Parallel): What Does the AWS of Tomorrow Look Like?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffFFT8KBDc4)

Daytona

Apr 8, 2026

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- [Twitter's Ex-CEO: The Web Was Built for Humans — Let's Make it Work for AI Agents](https://www.madrona.com/twitter-ex-ceo-web-built-for-humans-make-it-work-for-ai-agents-nikita-shamgunov-parag-agrawal)

Founded & Funded — Madrona

Mar 18, 2026

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- [How AI Agents Will Reshape the Web with Parag Agrawal](http://podscan.fm/podcasts/founders-in-arms/episodes/how-ai-agents-will-reshape-the-web-with-parag-agrawal)

Founders in Arms

Feb 20, 2026

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- [AI and Entrepreneurship Talk: Parag Agrawal, Parallel.ai CEO and Cofounder](https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/ai-and-entrepreneurship-talk-parag-agrawal-parallel-ai-ceo-and-cofounder)

Columbia University

Feb 5, 2026

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- [Parag Agrawal — Parallel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHuWpD7rfI)

Founders You Should Know

Feb 4, 2026

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- [Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/twitters-former-ceo-on-rebuilding-the-web-for-ai-parag-agrawal-co-founder-and-ceo-of-parallel)

In Depth — First Round Review

Feb 3, 2026

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- [Building for the Web's Second User: Parallel's $100M Series A](https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/parallels-100m-series-a/)

Index Ventures

Nov 12, 2025

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- [Parallel: Building the infrastructure for AI](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/parallel-series-a/)

Kleiner Perkins

Nov 12, 2025

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- [Ex-Twitter CEO Agrawal's AI search startup Parallel raises $100 million](https://www.reuters.com/business/ex-twitter-ceo-agrawals-ai-search-startup-parallel-raises-100-million-2025-11-12/)

Reuters

Nov 12, 2025

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- [Former Twitter CEO Building AI Web Infrastructure](https://thein.fo/4pbo81t)

The Information

Nov 1, 2025

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- [Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Unveils AI Startup Parallel Web Systems](https://india.entrepreneur.com/news-and-trends/former-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-unveils-ai-startup/496062)

Entrepreneur India

Aug 19, 2025

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- [Ex-Twitter CEO on Next Chapter as AI Startup Founder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6APLBxn4Q6k)

Bloomberg Technology

Aug 14, 2025

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- [Terrain Founders Series interview with Parag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnDQeo2Flk8)

Terrain Capital

Aug 14, 2025

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- [Twitter's Ex-CEO Is Moving Past His Elon Musk Drama and Starting an AI Company](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/twitter-ex-ceo-parag-agrawal-is-moving-past-his-elon-musk-drama)

Bloomberg

Aug 14, 2025

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- [Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has moved his AI startup out of stealth, calling it Parallel](https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-ai-startup-stealth-parallel-2024-10)

Business Insider

Oct 21, 2024

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## [Parag Agrawal's AI startup wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work](https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/parag-agrawal-parallel-startup-pay-publishers-when-ai-agents-use-their-work/)

## [Ex-Twitter CEO's AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ex-twitter-ceos-ai-startup-raises-funds-at-2-billion-valuation-63c927fc)

## [Parallel and the Future of the Web | Travers Nisbet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT80EwucA34)

## Press & Media25

- [Parallel and the Future of the Web | Travers Nisbet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT80EwucA34)

- [Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzFgVS9ngM)

- [An Interview with Parallel Founder Parag Agrawal About Valuing Content on the Agentic Web](https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-parallel-founder-parag-agarwal-about-valuing-content-on-the-agentic-web/)

- [Parallel Launches Index, A New Model For Compensating Content Owners](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/parallel-launches-index-a-new-model-for-compensating-content-owners-302775367.html)

- [Parag Agrawal's AI startup wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work](https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/parag-agrawal-parallel-startup-pay-publishers-when-ai-agents-use-their-work/)

- [Paying Content Creators in the AI Age: Parallel CEO Parag Agrawal on the Launch of Index](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/05/19/paying-content-creators-in-the-ai-age-parallel-ceo-parag-agrawal-on-the-launch-of-index.html)

- [Launching Index by Parallel with Carra Wu](https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2056836032411353337)

- [Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/parallel-web-systems-hits-2b-valuation-five-months-after-its-last-big-raise/)

- [Ex-Twitter CEO's AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ex-twitter-ceos-ai-startup-raises-funds-at-2-billion-valuation-63c927fc)

- [Parag Agrawal (Parallel): What Does the AWS of Tomorrow Look Like?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffFFT8KBDc4)

- [Twitter's Ex-CEO: The Web Was Built for Humans — Let's Make it Work for AI Agents](https://www.madrona.com/twitter-ex-ceo-web-built-for-humans-make-it-work-for-ai-agents-nikita-shamgunov-parag-agrawal)

- [How AI Agents Will Reshape the Web with Parag Agrawal](http://podscan.fm/podcasts/founders-in-arms/episodes/how-ai-agents-will-reshape-the-web-with-parag-agrawal)

- [AI and Entrepreneurship Talk: Parag Agrawal, Parallel.ai CEO and Cofounder](https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/ai-and-entrepreneurship-talk-parag-agrawal-parallel-ai-ceo-and-cofounder)

- [Parag Agrawal — Parallel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHuWpD7rfI)

- [Twitter's former CEO on rebuilding the web for AI](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/twitters-former-ceo-on-rebuilding-the-web-for-ai-parag-agrawal-co-founder-and-ceo-of-parallel)

- [Building for the Web's Second User: Parallel's $100M Series A](https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/parallels-100m-series-a/)

- [Parallel: Building the infrastructure for AI](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/parallel-series-a/)

- [Ex-Twitter CEO Agrawal's AI search startup Parallel raises $100 million](https://www.reuters.com/business/ex-twitter-ceo-agrawals-ai-search-startup-parallel-raises-100-million-2025-11-12/)

- [Former Twitter CEO Building AI Web Infrastructure](https://thein.fo/4pbo81t)

- [Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Unveils AI Startup Parallel Web Systems](https://india.entrepreneur.com/news-and-trends/former-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-unveils-ai-startup/496062)

- [Ex-Twitter CEO on Next Chapter as AI Startup Founder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6APLBxn4Q6k)

- [Terrain Founders Series interview with Parag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnDQeo2Flk8)

- [Twitter's Ex-CEO Is Moving Past His Elon Musk Drama and Starting an AI Company](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/twitter-ex-ceo-parag-agrawal-is-moving-past-his-elon-musk-drama)

- [Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has moved his AI startup out of stealth, calling it Parallel](https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-ai-startup-stealth-parallel-2024-10)

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