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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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FEB 24, 2025
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 NewsletterLegal: https://www.contrary.com/legal
52 MIN
NOV 21, 2024
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 business. Subscribe to the Contrary Research Newsletter Legal: https://www.contrary.com/legal
45 MIN
NOV 1, 2024
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 our full memo on Lumafield's business. Subscribe to the Contrary Research Newsletter Legal: https://www.contrary.com/legal
50 MIN
AUG 22, 2024
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 Research Newsletter Legal: https://www.contrary.com/legal
66 MIN
JUN 10, 2024
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 world. Subscribe to the Contrary Research Newsletter Legal: https://www.contrary.com/legal
53 MIN
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