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Contrary Newsletter #7: The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence, plus a deep dive on Stripe and memos on Substack, Boom Supersonic, Memora Health, and Goldfinch

What's New: This week’s Foundations & Frontiers essay on The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence covers the models that made GPT-3 and GPT-4 possible, and the challenges still ahead of achieving AGI. ​ Over at Contrary Research, a new deep dive on Stripe as well as reports on Boom Supersonic,...
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4 days ago • 2 min read

Contrary Newsletter #6: The Satellite Renaissance, research reports on Chargebee, Instacart, Calendly and more

Here's What's New: The Satellite Renaissance. Our latest Foundations and Frontiers essay covers the recent resurgence of satellite manufacturing and launch capabilities, along with the expanding use-cases and future outlook of the space.​ Over at Contrary Research, we have new reports on...
28 days ago • 2 min read

Contrary Research Rundown #22: Renewed interest in defense tech, and new memos on Calendly, Instacart and more

The Research Rundown American military and intelligence officials have been trying to make sense of three unidentified objects over Alaska, Canada, and Michigan that U.S. fighter jets shot down with missiles on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday last week. In light of the Chinese spy balloon that a US...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read

Startup Search - Startups Hiring This Week: Avant, Notion, Skiff and Carbon

our favorites recently raised international opportunity Avant | Combining debit-style functionality with credit card rewards. Series A / Backed by New Enterprise Associates Senior Software Engineer - Bogota, Colombia Notion | The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases....
about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Contrary Newsletter #5: The importance of batteries, research reports on Helion Energy, KoBold Metals, and more

Here's What's New: The Challenge of Building Better Batteries, our latest Foundations & Frontiers essay on how batteries are the key to our energy future and why incremental progress with existing battery technology may not be enough. ​ Over at Contrary Research, following up on last week's essay...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Startup Search - Startups Hiring This Week: Benchling, Cedar, Contrary, Mercury and Canva

our favorites recently raised international opportunity Benchling | Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology by providing an R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market. Read more about Benchling in Contrary Research's...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Contrary Newsletter #4: The promise of fusion, a deep dive into Figma, Canva, Adobe, and more

Here's What's New: The Promise of Fusion, our latest Foundations & Frontiers essay on the evolution, recent inflection points, and challenges of fusion technology​ Over at Contrary Research, a new deep-dive report on The Designer Class: From Figma to Canva along with reports on Patch, Flock...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Startup Search - Startups Hiring This Week: Anduril, Canva, Contenda, Memora Health

our favorites recently raised international opportunity Anduril | A defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance. Despite bear market conditions, Anduril raised a mega-round of $1.5B and is now hiring across nearly all levels of seniority. Series D...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Startup Search - PM @ Infinitus, Venture Intern @ Mercury, SWE @ Brex

our favorites🙋‍♀️ = women founded💸 = recently raised🌎 = international opportunity🏅 = featured on a Startup Search list​ Full-Time Trinsic - Founding Business Developer | Trinsic is a full-stack self-sovereign identity platform that makes sharing and verifying personal data online. Remote / Seed /...
2 months ago • 1 min read