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What does Contrary invest in?
Contrary invests most often at Seed and Series A (63% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Machine Learning, Apps and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML).
Contrary highlights
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10 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 63% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 2 rounds, median $2.3M
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $50K – $500K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- AI & Machine LearningAppsArtificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML)
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first51 appearances
- 2026
8 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Jan
- 2025
10 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- 2024
7 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- May
- Mar
- 2023
8 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- 2022
11 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Sept
- Aug
- May
- May
- Apr
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
EREric Richard TarczynskiManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
JLJoshua LeskoChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
We also hold 11 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$620Massets it manages, 2 advisers combinedOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Contrary LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 311054
Funds on its Form ADV
10 private funds, $199M in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
- Contrary Capital III, L.P.Venture90 investors$69M
- Contrary Capital IV, L.P.Venture70 investors$62M
- Contrary Capital II, L.P.Venture60 investors$39M
- Contrary Holdings, LLCVenture30 investors$14M
- Contrary Breakout Fund I, L.P.Venture4 investors$5.9M
- Contrary Capital, L.P.Venture20 investors$4.6M
- Contrary Capital IV-A, L.P.Venture40 investors$3.6M
- Contrary Capital III-A, L.P.Venture25 investors$1.1M
- Heaven Incorporated, LLCVenture3 investors$500K
- Contrary Modern, LLCVenture11 investors$390K