What's New: In this week's issue of How We Work, we spoke to commercial fisherman Corey Arnold, who previously appeared in Season 2 of Deadliest Catch, a reality TV show. We recently announced our investment in Moment, which raised a $20 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz earlier this month. Join us for our first Tech Talk in NYC on Thursday, October 5th featuring demos from Hugging Face, Graphite, Replit, Nomic, and Slingshot AI. Contrary and Thrive are co-hosting a B2B AI Founder...
about 1 year ago • 5 min read
What's New: Today's Foundations & Frontiers essay, The Growing Importance of Desalination, explores how we might increase the water supply. For our most recent issue of How We Work, we spoke to a tunnel engineer about the world of subterranean construction. Join us for our first Tech Talk in NYC on Thursday, October 5 featuring Hugging Face, Graphite, and Replit. Applications for 2023 Contrary Venture Partners are now open. Over at Contrary Research, a podcast episode with the CEO of Hex...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read
What's New: Today's Foundations & Frontiers essay, The Decentralized Future of Nuclear Power, explores recent advances in nuclear fission. Over at Contrary Research, a new deep dive into The Decarbonized Economy. Also at Contrary Research, a new podcast episode with AirGarage, alongside new memos on Tropic, Vannevar Labs, and Redwood Materials. Foundations & Frontiers Nuclear energy has the highest capacity factor of any fuel source, making it the most reliable and most powerful means of...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read
What's New: Today's Foundations & Frontiers essay covers the technology behind digging tunnels and underground construction. The second installment of How We Work: an interview with an electric grid lineman. Announcing our investment in Bloom and Zillow's acquisition of Aryeo, a Contrary portfolio company. We also just launched our first podcast: Contrary Research Radio. The first episode features a discussion of Cohere with CEO Aidan Gomez. Also at Contrary Research, new reports on Zepto,...
over 1 year ago • 4 min read
Startup Search is Joining Contrary Research Starting this Saturday, Startup Search will be combining with Contrary Research! We’re pairing the startup job opportunities from Startup Search with the comprehensive private company analysis of Contrary Research to create one unified reading experience. Readers will continue to receive a weekly newsletter combining startup jobs, new Contrary Research memos, stories our team has been reading, and events — all in one. Keep an eye out this Saturday...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Jobs 🌟 = our favorites 💸 = recently raised 🌎 = international opportunity 🧑💼 = internship opportunity 🌟🧑💼 Ramp | Ramp is a finance automation platform that helps businesses spend less time and money. Named the most innovative finance company of 2022 by Fast Company, Ramp is continually hiring across all departments. Check out Contrary Research’s memo on Ramp here. Series C | Backed by Founders Fund, Contrary Software Engineer Internship | Backend - NYC New Grad 2023 | Software Engineer |...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
What's New: This week’s Foundations & Frontiers essay on Modernizing the Electric Grid. Over at Contrary Research, new reports on Lithic, Intercom, WorkOS, and Squire. Announcing our investment in Nomic. Foundations & Frontiers The electric grid is a mosaic of incredible feats of engineering. It is an elaborate web weaving together power from nuclear reactors, massive hydroelectric dams, and even solar farms into a network capable of powering our homes and charging our cars instantly and...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
What’s New Join us this Thursday, July 27th for Balancing Marketplaces, a virtual conversation about scaling marketplaces featuring a line up of seasoned tech operators from some of the most iconic marketplaces - including Faire, Uber, and Gopuff. Express interest in joining us here. Space is limited so sign up soon — we’ll be in touch about your registration! Jobs 🌟 = our favorites 💸 = recently raised 🌎 = international opportunity 🧑💼 = internship opportunity 🌎 Magical | Magical is a...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
What’s New Join us next Thursday, July 27th for a Balancing Marketplaces, a virtual conversation about scaling marketplaces featuring a line up of seasoned tech operators from some of the most iconic marketplaces - including Faire, Uber, and Gopuff. Express interest in joining us here. Space is limited so sign up soon — we’ll be in touch about your registration! Jobs 🌟 = our favorites 💸 = recently raised 🌎 = international opportunity 🧑💼 = internship opportunity 🧑💼 🌎 💸 Cohere | Cohere builds...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
