Announcing Leland's $1.1M pre-seed round.

We raised $20M to double down on our mission of identifying and investing in the world's top talent.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Jason Chen, Anson Yu, and Jane Zhang have joined Contrary’s HQ team.

We're recruiting the next generation of students to join the Contrary family.

Take a gap year from school. Get up to $100,000 to start a company of your own.

Contrary surveyed the brightest young minds in tech to get their opinions on the best startups, the most exciting industries to work in, and what’s most important when deciding where to place their career bets in 2021.

Announcing Aryeo's $3.65mm seed round.

Today we're launching Startup Fair, the best place for undergrad and new grad builders to meet and get hired by breakout startups.

We're expanding our team with two new hires.

Announcing our investment in Hallow, a modern way for Catholics to stay in touch with their faith.

Announcing our investment in Ramp. Ramp is building the financial stack of the future.

Announcing our investment in Chums, the place where people begin their online shopping experiences.

We're bringing on a new class of Contrary Fellows.

Announcing our new class of venture partners for 2021.

We've mapped out the startup ecosystem for 35+ universities.

Tactics that companies like Netflix and Zapier use to get new hires up to speed.

A deep dive on Carta's growth and long-term strategy.

A tactical guide for working with journalists.

Danielle is joining Contrary as our Head of Community.

A list of what founders should watch out for.

Read about the top universities in tech entrepreneurship.

A guide to the grant programs and active investors in deeptech.

Who they are, what they're doing, and how the tech world is reacting.

The biggest tech mafia you've never heard of.

Announcing Lightyear's $3.7mm seed round.

We're expanding our team with three new hires.

We're excited to have Julie join us to build Contrary over the coming year.

Take a gap year from school. Get up to $100,000 to start a company of your own.

We're opening up our network to the top early-career engineers, designers, and product minds.

A virtual community for the brightest technologists, designers, and product minds to collaborate on projects remotely.

Announcing our accelerator for 2020.

Will joined Contrary in 2017. Although officially an investor, he wears every hat within the firm.

Contrary exists to identify the very best talent coming out of universities and put a world-class roster of backers on their side from the beginning.

Read about the top universities in tech entrepreneurship.

Josh Abramson of College Humor, BustedTees, and Vimeo discusses building a media business as a freshman at the University of Richmond, team culture and how opportunities pop up, and more.

Tina talks about her time studying International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, sessons from 20 years of e-commerce and brand-building, and the importance of team-building from day one.

Why Nathan shut down his first successful software company, how to think about building a diverse “college experience”, and lessons learned from the early days of Airbnb.