The biggest tech mafia you've never heard of.

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

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.

We're recruiting a new generation of venture partners.

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.

Read about the top universities in tech entrepreneurship.

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.

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.

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.