Excited to announce that we raised our Series A for @Slingshotai_inc, led by a16z to help advance our mission of using AI to help scale access to mental health care.

Imagine a company losing money for 20+ years and failing 7 audits—CFO fired, right? That’s our government, which spent half its budget deficit on INTEREST. It doesn’t have to be this way. Here’s how businesses balance profitability+growth—and how government can do the same.

Excited to announce the annual Contrary Tech Trends Report. When extraordinary people build companies, they canvas for opportunities at the cutting edge of either technological or societal shifts (or both) This is a 300+ report shining light on those cutting edges. Link below.

Watch how one of America's largest vineyard management companies uses Vineyard Robotics technology – to perfect their yields & combat the spread of Red Leaf Diseases 🍇📸💪 ⬆️ Vineyard Robotics, a division of Orchard Robotics.

Rumors of the death of X have been greatly exaggerated You may think you know the story of the artist formerly known as Twitter, but you’d be wrong. In our latest report, Contrary Research unpacks the journey of a money-losing bird app into the latest entry in the Muskonomy ➡️

First Tech Talk of the year! Name a better lineup: Baseten Codeium Decagon Patch Mercor & Doss Register here to join us: lu.ma/SF-TechTalk

We're excited to share DOSS.COM with the world, and congratulate them on an $18M Series A! The 21st Century is finally dawning for ERP systems. Wiley Jones @ DOSS and Arnav are doing their part to bring systems of record to the cutting edge. contrary.com/blog/investing…

This is what tech media is missing - a digestible, daily show that examines the most important tech stories of the day from the perspective of those in the arena. Excited!!

Just closed our first million dollar deal 🥳 With a customer that grew ~50x in 6 months of using our tech 💪 Never been more bullish on Orchard 🍎

The diamond drill rig for mineral exploration was first tested in Minnesota in 1890 and hasn't seen a fundamental innovation since 1953. We @durinmining built a remotely operable drill rig in 4 months. Our next version will be autonomous. Testing begins in Nevada next week.

Today we're excited to launch Valinor Discovery!

A fantastic read from Cory Anderson and the Contrary Research team on the past, present, and future of America's electrical grid. Coauthored with Alexander Stratmoen and Aryan ⁂, who are working hard to fix it!

First tweet ever. Hopefully the Series C won’t be the second. Moment has raised a $36M Series B led by @indexventures to automate the $150T fixed income market. We're also announcing our partnership with LPL Financial, the largest broker-dealer in the U.S. Our team

They said it couldn't be done. They said it *shouldn't* be done. We tried anyways. Today we're launching Ash, the first AI designed for therapy, and announcing $93M in funding from @radicalventures Forerunner a16z Felicis TMV sequel and many more. We've had

I’m excited to announce Ash by Slingshot AI, the first AI designed for therapy backed by $93M in funding from the world’s top mission-driven investors.

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