| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.11.2023 | Class of 2024 | - |
| 31.10.2023 | The Past & Future of the Supply Chain | - |
| 17.10.2023 | How Industrial Designers Bring Ideas to Life | - |
| 03.10.2023 | Furniture Makers: Creating the Everyday | - |
| 20.09.2023 | Commercial Fishermen: Harvesting the Seas | - |
| 06.09.2023 | Investing in Moment | - |
| 30.08.2023 | Tunnel Engineers: Building Connections | - |
| 28.08.2023 | Venture Partner Applications 2023 | - |
| 02.08.2023 | Zillow Acquires Aryeo | - |
| 01.08.2023 | Lineworkers: Keeping America's Lights On | - |
| 31.07.2023 | Investing in Bloom | - |
| 13.07.2023 | Investing in Nomic | - |
| 11.07.2023 | The Evolution of Commercial Pilots | - |
| 11.05.2023 | Lidar and the Future of Computer Vision | The ability to perceive objects, discern their dimensions, and contextualize them alongside our relative position in space is a core ingredient in humans’ evolved ability to think, learn, and direct our own actions. For this reason, teachin... |
| 27.04.2023 | The Rise of Robots | Ever since Isaac Asimov coined the term “robotics”, we’ve been bracing ourselves for a world where robots are everywhere. The Jetsons had us expecting Rosie the Robot would be taking care of all our household chores. The reality turned out ... |
| 25.04.2023 | Investing in Replit | Contrary’s core mission is to support exceptional people relentlessly. Every now and then, we find companies that align with that mission very closely as well. And when we do, investing in them is a no-brainer. Replit is one of those compan... |
| 19.04.2023 | Welcoming Sachin Maini | At Contrary, we value intellectual curiosity and a broad understanding of the world around us. So it's with great pleasure that we welcome Sachin Maini to our team as an Editor to work across Contrary Research, Foundations & Frontiers, ... |
| 13.04.2023 | Why Cell Therapies Are the Future of Medicine | Since the advent of modern medicine, our biggest strides have come from finding effective countermeasures against pathogens like bacteria and viruses. Collectively, such pathogens had been responsible for sowing history’s deadliest illnesse... |
| 30.03.2023 | Industrializing Carbon Removal | Each year, roughly 40 billion tonnes of CO2 are emitted into the atmosphere. Given that global energy consumption increases at a rate of 2% every year, it’s likely that our emissions will increase at a similar rate. |
| 20.03.2023 | The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence | With recent advances in machine learning, we could be entering a period of technological progression more impactful than the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution combined. The development of transformer architectures and mass... |
| 14.03.2023 | Welcoming David Oko | We’re thrilled to share that David Oko has joined the team as a Finance Manager! |
| 27.02.2023 | Welcoming Skye Nguyen and Akshay Chandramouli | We’re thrilled to share that Skye Nguyen and Akshay Chandramouli have joined the team as software engineers! |
| 24.02.2023 | The Satellite Renaissance | As the world has grown more complex and interconnected, it has become more valuable to widen our aperture and take in the situation from above. Satellites have been our eyes and ears in the skies, helping us solve important issues concernin... |
| 09.02.2023 | The Challenge of Building Better Batteries | Batteries are some of the most overlooked technologies. Today, they’re hidden behind the screens or user interfaces of the machines they power which obscure the essential role they played in electrifying human civilization. |
| 01.02.2023 | Investing In Recurrency | The world's supply chain today runs on tech developed a generation ago. Although it gets the job done — a stunning 77% of all transactions globally touch an SAP system — the modern economy demands efficiency that can only come with better i... |
| 31.01.2023 | Welcoming Rohit Deora | We’re excited to share that Rohit Deora has joined the team as a software engineer! Rohit joins us from Taplytics where he led many of their frontend initiatives over the course of his 3 year tenure there. Prior to Taplytics, he spent 3 yea... |
| 26.01.2023 | The Promise of Fusion | Fusion could be the most consequential technology ever produced by humanity. There’s a profound, almost mystical, symbolism in our ability to confine the power source of our solar system into a test tube. In some ways, achieving fusion will... |
| 24.01.2023 | Welcoming Andrew Michelson | We’re excited to share that Andrew Michelson has joined the Contrary team as a Product Operations Manager! |
| 05.01.2023 | The Technology of Food Production | What and how we eat is a product of deliberate design. As Tom Standage writes in An Edible History of Humanity, "a cultivated field of maize, or any other crop, is as man-made as a microchip, a magazine, or a missile." |
| 15.12.2022 | The Evolution of Chips | Turns out — computers aren’t getting faster anymore. So much for progress in the world of bits. For decades, the world has been transformed by the reality of Moore’s law, the expectation that the chips powering our computers would double in... |
| 07.12.2022 | Five Years of Contrary | Five years ago today, Contrary wired the money for our first investment. |
| 01.12.2022 | The Past and Future of Metallurgy | Metallurgy is really modern day alchemy. It's sometimes mesmerizing to stare at your laptop and realize that most of the materials used to make it were once rocks. |
| 16.11.2022 | Investing in OneSchema | In the startup world, there's an oft-cited strategy for finding a product worth building: ask businesses how they use Excel, build a software tool to replace those spreadsheets, add functionality, and charge for the use of an end-to-end pla... |
| 07.11.2022 | Class of 2023 | From day one, Contrary’s mission has been to identify the brightest, scrappiest, and most talented builders in the world, and support them for life. Alongside many other initiatives, we do this with our community - and for the past 6 years,... |
| 03.11.2022 | Investing in Vesto | Last year, hundreds of billions of dollars of venture capital were deployed globally, which financed over 10,000 companies. |
| 11.10.2022 | Welcoming Dea Hartz | We're excited to welcome Dea Hartz to the Contrary team as Executive Assistant! |
| 06.10.2022 | Welcoming Anna-Sofia Lesiv | We met Anna-Sofia Lesiv when she was at Stanford. It was clear from the start that she was a special person that we needed to find a way to work with. |
| 29.09.2022 | Announcing Contrary NYC | For the past five years, Contrary has been guided by the belief that people matter most. |
| 27.09.2022 | Welcoming Judith Lao | Today, we’re excited to share that Judith Lao has joined the engineering team. |
| 22.09.2022 | Welcoming James Hennessy | As the pace of technological development continues to accelerate, new things happen fast. Almost too fast to keep up with, at times. |
| 14.09.2022 | Contrary Research | Every company represents a story. While Contrary has traditionally focused on people leading up to company formation and through the early life of a young startup, the technology and markets also tell stories fundamental to each iconic busi... |
| 29.08.2022 | Venture Partner Applications 2022 | Contrary is a venture firm, backed by the world's most iconic entrepreneurs, that identifies and invests in exceptional talent. We invest up to $2M in a small number of startups each year, and work closely alongside them to build enduring b... |
| 16.08.2022 | Investing in AtoB | We first met AtoB cofounder Tushar Misra nearly 5 years ago. His experience as one of Uber India's first employees developed a deep love for all things transportation. |
| 28.07.2022 | Contrary Sabbatical 2022 | For the past two years, we’ve run programs focused on identifying and supporting ambitious builders before their startups even exist. |
| 27.07.2022 | Welcoming Jen Yang-Wong | Going against the grain is in Contrary’s DNA. From our radical focus on people to having nearly as many engineers as investors on the team, we think constantly about what the best venture firms in the world look like a decade from now – and... |
| 20.07.2022 | Welcoming Anthony Nardini | Supporting people rather than companies is the core of what we do at Contrary. That's why we've worked hard over the past five years to build the infrastructure needed to identify exceptional individuals and build deep, long-term relationsh... |
| 13.07.2022 | Startup Fair 2022 | Over the past six years at Contrary, we’ve focused relentlessly on identifying and supporting the world’s top talent. |
| 11.07.2022 | Investing in Uprise | Today, we’re excited to announce our investment in Uprise, building the wealth management platform for everyone. Jess and Chris have extensive experience across consumer fintech and money management, having built highly relevant products at... |
| 28.06.2022 | Investing in Pave | Data has driven change across industries, but data can only be as impactful as it is transparent. No dataset that businesses rely on has been less accessible or transparent than compensation data. |
| 26.05.2022 | Investing in Red Leader | We met Jake Hillard and Rebecca Wong 4 years ago when they shared with us an ambitious vision: building a new approach to 3D Vision that makes sensing 100x more powerful. |
| 25.05.2022 | Welcoming Ryan Ma | I’m excited to share that Ryan Ma has joined from Stripe as our very first designer. I first met Ryan 10 years ago as classmates at Northeastern and distinctly remember thinking that he was exceptional — sharp, creative, hardworking and kin... |
| 23.05.2022 | Investing in Candor | We've been living in a world devoid of human-to-human depth in the professional world for the past 20 years. Glassdoor and LinkedIn have been standard bearers of this era, which doesn't exactly set a high bar. |
| 13.05.2022 | Welcoming Kyle Harrison | I met Kyle Harrison 26 days after starting Contrary. |
| 11.05.2022 | Doubling Down on Leland | Seven months ago, we led Leland’s pre-seed. Today, we are thrilled to share that we’ve doubled down and have led Leland’s seed, alongside friends like FJ Labs, Goodwater Capital, and strategic angels. |
| 03.05.2022 | Welcoming Megan Kao | Today, we're excited to share that Megan Kao has joined the investment team. |
| 28.04.2022 | Welcoming Nathan Chiu | We’re excited to share that Nathan Chiu has joined us as a Software Engineer. Over the past few months, we’ve had conversations with multiple engineers. It was clear that Nathan was head-and-shoulders above the crowd — product-minded, exper... |
| 11.04.2022 | Investing in Parfait | As AI-enabled technology becomes increasingly democratized across industries, consumers have reaped the benefits - more personalized recommendations, improved product quality, and better customer service. |
| 07.04.2022 | Welcoming Michelle Brown | I’m excited to share that Michelle Brown has joined Contrary from General Catalyst as our very first CFO. |
| 06.04.2022 | Welcoming Hiroki Hayama | We’re thrilled to share that Hiroki Hayama has joined the team from Uber Eats as Staff Data Scientist. |
| 30.03.2022 | First Check Program | Get your startup’s first check from Contrary to quit your job, skip an internship, or take time off of school. |
| 16.03.2022 | Investing in Modern Intelligence | Throughout history, advancements in technology have shown outsized impact on the mechanics of war and power. This was true at the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866 when an incremental innovation in rifle-loading allowed the Prussians to defeat t... |
| 09.03.2022 | The Third Chapter: $75M to identify the world's brightest | Contrary exists to relentlessly support the world's most talented founders for life. |
| 04.03.2022 | Welcoming Riley Wilson | We're honored to announce that Riley Wilson has joined the Contrary investment team as Chief of Staff. |
| 02.03.2022 | Brooke Presten + Jessica Retrum | We’re thrilled to share two pieces of news today: first, that Brooke Presten has joined us on the team as an Events Operations Associate. And second, that our very own Jessica Retrum has been promoted to Director of Events. |
| 28.02.2022 | Welcoming Alexandra Wilson | Contrary’s mission is to identify and relentlessly support the world’s top talent. |
| 23.02.2022 | Benjamin Laufer and Luke Piette | Today, we're excited to share that Luke Piette and Benjamin Laufer are joining the Contrary team to lead Special Projects! |
| 22.02.2022 | Investing in Brevity | We first met Ryley Randall through our team at BYU. Although his calm demeanor is unassuming, after hearing his story, we were impressed by Ryley's depth of life experience. He spent years living in Ghana and Liberia. Returning to the US, h... |
| 07.02.2022 | Class of 2022 | Contrary exists to systematically identify the brightest, scrappiest, and most entrepreneurial people across the world, and support them for life. Our Venture Partners are an essential part of this mission. A diverse group of founders, engi... |
| 13.01.2022 | Seth Kimmel + Jason Chen | I’m excited to share two pieces of news today: first, that Seth Kimmel has joined us on the team as a software engineer. And second, that our very own Jason Chen has been promoted to Principal. |
| 18.11.2021 | Fractional | As investors, we often talk about ‘knowing it when you see it’. ‘It’ being the x-factor – the difficult-to-explain quantitatively but easy to observe differentiator that sets someone apart from the pack. |
| 01.11.2021 | Zepto | We met the Zepto team in the summer of 2020 under uncommon circumstances, but the following 14 months have been nothing short of astounding. |
