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My colleague Megan Kao put together an excellent deep dive into the CFO's tech stack -- check it out!

Announcing our upcoming virtual Contrary Research event! Join us on Thursday, July 27th as Megan Kao hosts a conversation with Ian Spear, Lydia Lemoine, and Melissa Chan for a conversation on Balancing Marketplaces.

Check out james hennessy's latest -- a series focusing on the jobs and people that fuel our economy, and the hidden opportunities for startups that lie within them. Read on 👇

Retreat continues to be a highlight for us each year -- grateful to spend time with the community and team that have helped shape Contrary into what it is today✨

Contrary Research tells the stories of the world’s most interesting private tech companies. Today we’re launching Contrary Research Radio, hosted by Kyle Harrison (Kyle Harrison), to dive deeper. Our first guest is Aidan Gomez (Aidan Gomez), CEO of Cohere. Spotify:

Calling all builders, engineers, designers, investors, and everything in between - Contrary Venture Partner applications for 2023 are now open!

Congrats to the Moment team for launching today with the announcement of their Seed led by Contrary & Series A led by a16z! Proud to have supported them from the start: contrary.com/blog/investing…

Come join us in NYC in two weeks for an evening of demos & conversation led by some of the most exciting startups in the city. RSVP here: lu.ma/7lncdn6c

#NYTechWeek is just around the corner and we’re partnering with @thrivecapital to host an evening designed for B2B AI founders on October 17th. Hear what the founders of @ambrookag, Cove, and Lightyear are looking for as they build AI into their products.

The Foundations & Frontiers dinner last night in SF brought together some of the most brilliant builders working on the frontiers of tech. Thanks to mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 for co-hosting and @solarCTO Nick Pinkston 🏭 🏗️ 🏙️ 🌐 ⏭ MattyG Sam D'Amico Ian Brooke Ben Reinhardt Loewen Cavill Erik Schluntz

Settling Mars will involve compressing all our technical and industrial capabilities into their most compact forms — a life starter pack for a planet millions of miles away. For 2024’s first piece, I wrote an overview of what it would take to do that. contrary.com/foundations-an…

Last night's Foundations & Frontiers dinner brought together world-class pioneers working in deep tech. Thanks to Astranis Space Technologies for co-hosting an evening of discussion on emerging technologies that will shape the future.

Turns out when you invite awesome companies like Hex, Replit, Linear, Figma, and Stytch to demo the sick beta features they’re building, you get 400+ signups to check it out! Standing room only tonight. Excited for the next Contrary tech talk.

What a night - huge thanks to Stytch for co-hosting and to Linear, Replit ⠕, Figma, and Hex for joining us. Already looking forward to the next one!