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Research Radio
by Contrary
Diving deep on the world's most exciting private tech companies. Join Kyle Harrison, General Partner at Contrary, in conversation with the founders, leaders and thinkers building the future of tech.
Episodes
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Epirus: High Power Energy Weapons
Drone swarms in warfare are becoming more common. Epirus is building high power energy weapons as a response. In a word? What they've created is force fields. In this episode, we sat down with Epirus CEO Andy Lowery. Read our full memo on Epirus' business. Subscribe to the Contrary Research...
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Base Power: The Modern Power Company
Base Power aims to become the “modern power company of the electric era” by offering its customers a home energy service powered by a network of batteries. In this episode, we sat down with Base Power co-founders Zach Dell (CEO) and Justin Lopas (COO). Read our full memo on Base Power's…
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Lumafield: Building Industrial X-Ray Vision
Lumafield provides low-cost industrial scanners. Its goal is to build the world's best database of manufactured objects to help "take humans out of the loop" and enable fully autonomous manufacturing. In this episode, we sat down with Eduardo Torrealba, the CEO and co-founder of Lumafield. Read…
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Hadrian: The Factory of the Future
America's industrial base could be on the verge of collapse. Hadrian is setting out to build an automated solution to unlocking the manufacturing capacity in the US. We sat down with CEO and Founder of Hadrian, Chris Power. Read our full memo on Hadrian's business. Subscribe to the Contrary...
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JumpCloud: Future-Proofing The Identity Stack
JumpCloud is offering companies a cloud-native solution to manage their identity directory without having to “sell their soul”, so to speak, by becoming a wall-to-wall Microsoft stack. We sat down with CTO and Co-founder of JumpCloud, Greg Keller. Read our deep dive on the identity security…
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Stytch: Developer-First Identity
Stytch* is building a developer platform for companies to implement frictionless authentication methods. The company’s APIs and SDKs streamline user onboarding and bolster retention by eliminating passwords and replacing them with secure, lower-friction authentication options. We sat down with…
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Highnote: Molding a Modern Card Platform
Highnote is a full-stack card issuance platform with the intention of owning the entire stack, rather than sitting on top of another gateway or middle layer. So how are companies thinking about using a tool like Highnote today? We sat down with CEO and Co-founder of Highnote, John Macllwaine, to...
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Zip: Building a Financial Intake Machine
Zip provides a platform for the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, covering new purchase order management, accounts payable (AP) automation, and global B2B payments. Zip makes it easy for employees to request purchases and provides visual workflows for approvals across finance, legal, procurement,...
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Sardine: The Fraud Fighter's Toolkit
Sardine is a company that helps companies prevent fraud. Sardine has focused their product around a fraud prevention system. This is made up of a few key parts: (1) a fraud detection algorithm, (2) a no-code rule builder, and (3) an all-in-one dashboard and case manager for risk operations teams...
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What's Next for Databases?
MongoDB develops and provides a popular NoSQL database program which is designed for managing and storing large sets of varied data. MongoDB Ventures is the investment arm of MongoDB, focusing on supporting early-stage companies that are innovating in the developer productivity, data management,...
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Lithic: Making Cards Simpler
Lithic, founded in 2014 as Privacy.com, provides an API platform for building card issuing and processing solutions. It simplifies the process of card issuing, authorization, and transaction processing for startups and fintechs of all sizes. Lithic co-founder and CEO Bo Jiang joined Research…
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Lucid: The $3B Visual Collaboration Platform
Lucid makes visual productivity and collaboration tools like Lucidchart and Lucidspark, helping teams brainstorm, and build diagrams and data visualizations. It has become a titan of visual collaboration, serving 60 million users and generating over $100 million of annual revenue. Lucid was last...
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Persona: Solving Identity Verification
Founded in 2018, Persona is an automated identity verification platform which uses machine learning, computer vision, and algorithmic checks to help businesses confirm their users and customers are who they say they are. Co-founder and CEO Rick Song joined Research Radio to talk about Persona,...
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Moveworks: Conversational AI for Enterprise
With the rise of ChatGPT and other LLM-powered chatbots, there has been a gold rush to get conversational AI into enterprise. Moveworks, founded in 2016, is an enterprise AI co-pilot that helps employees find information, resolve issues, and get help across 100+ business systems. Co-founder and…
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How Stack Overflow Is Facing The AI Future
Stack Overflow has been one of the key parts of the software development universe since it was founded in 2008, and it has developed from a question-and-answer platform to a crucial resource. Whether they're debugging an error, trying to understand a new concept, or optimizing a piece of code,...
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Knowde: Bringing A $5 Trillion Industry Online
The chemicals industry is one of the world's largest, touching virtually every manufactured good from the phone in your pocket to the car you drive and the food you eat. But despite its size, the industry remains largely offline, and runs on old school sales. Knowde is a chemicals marketplace…
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Common Room: Helping Community Thrive
Common Room provides unified intelligence across a company's various online communities – from public squares like X/Twitter, to private spaces like Discord and Slack. It helps software companies get actionable insights into their user and developer communities, and assists them in sending those...
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Hex: Making Data Shareable
Hex is a collaborative data workspace that allows both technical and non-technical users to analyze, collaborate on, and share their data work. It wants to do for data what Figma did for design. Co-founder and CEO Barry McCardel joined Contrary Research Radio to talk about the “insane” ways data...
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AirGarage: Finding Sneaky Big Problems
As anyone who has tried finding a spot on a busy weekend will tell you: parking can be a nightmare. It's also big business – and it might be an even bigger business than you imagined. AirGarage, founded in 2017, is a full-stack parking management platform. It handles everything from payments and...
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Cohere: Building AI For Everyone
It's no secret that the biggest hype in tech is around AI and large language models (LLMs). Cohere, founded in 2019, builds general purpose language models and provides access to them through an API. Its goal is to help enterprise leverage the power of LLMs to complete a range of useful tasks....
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Diving deep on the world's most exciting private tech companies. Join Kyle Harrison, General Partner at Contrary, in conversation with the founders, leaders and thinkers building the future of tech.
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