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COO @FSHTechnologies | former partner @contrary
contrary.com Joined February 2009
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Jason Chen Verified account @jchen623
Congrats to @markiewagner and the @PoeticHQ team!

Has been a blast spending some time with them these past few months. True n of 1 company and team.
Markie Wagner Verified account @markiewagner Jun 10
Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.

We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.

While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.

So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.

When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.

In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.

Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.
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Jason Chen Verified account @jchen623
Real innovation in agriculture (AI or otherwise) requires bridging a massive data gap. Orchard does this, and so much more.

Today, they've built the trusted OS for modern farms all over the country.

Congrats @charliewu and @orchard_robots on this deserved milestone!
Charlie Wu Verified account @charliewu Sep 3, 2025
I'm excited to announce our $22M Series A here at Orchard!🍎

Here @Orchard_Robots, we’re securing America’s food supply by building the AI farmer that automates our nation’s farms.

Our mission is to make farming profitable, efficient, and sustainable again.
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Jason Chen Verified account @jchen623
Contrary’s VP program continues to be the very best place to accelerate your path in startups and tech.

If you’re a builder looking for others who share your ambition and drive, the VP program is for you.

Apply today!
Contrary Verified account @contrary Aug 25, 2025
Contrary Venture Partner applications are now open!

If you're a builder on campus, interested in investing in exceptional startups, and want to be part of one of the most selective communities in tech, apply now.

Contrary invests and works directly alongside exceptional founders to build enduring companies, from seed to scale. With this approach, we’ve been fortunate to back iconic companies like Ramp, Anduril, Zepto, and many others.

Our Venture Partners are great builders and future founders who become the go-to resource for others on campus. As a VP, you’ll learn first-hand what it takes to build and invest in exceptional companies, from taking part in investment decisions to sitting in on fireside chats with seasoned founders and investors.

Best of all, you’ll be joining and learning from the best community in tech. Most VPs go on to become venture-backed founders, early engineers/operators, or investors, and enjoy the support of Contrary’s network for life.

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A fantastic read from @CoryBAnderson and the @Contrary_Res team on the past, present, and future of America's electrical grid.

Coauthored with @alexstratmoen and @AryanAfrouzi, who are working hard to fix it!
Contrary Research Verified account @Contrary_Res May 15, 2025
1/ America’s electric grid was once the marvel of the industrial age.

Now it’s aging, brittle, and cracking under the pressure of EVs, extreme weather, and two-way power flows.

This is the story of how we got here—and why we need to build an “energy internet” 🧵
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I’m thrilled to announce we’ve led @voltraenergy's pre-seed.

Breakthroughs in energy technology across batteries, nuclear, solar, wind, and more speak to the potential for resource abundance and meaningful progress in energy production.

Energy demand, spurred on by rapid innovations in AI and the push to increase domestic industrial production, is expected to grow faster than ever before.

But against this backdrop is aging infrastructure and an electrical grid that is ill-prepared to handle the increased load.

The average current age of US transmission lines is 40 years old. Many of the country’s power transformers are at or beyond their expected lifespan. Put simply, the grid is old and vulnerable.

To fix this, we obviously need to build new infrastructure. But that is costly, time-intensive, and mired in political and regulatory complexity. To supplement this, and to ensure that we can prepare for tomorrow’s energy demands today, we also need better software that is not built for Windows Vista.

Enter Voltra. Their lofty goal is to build the operating system for the electrical grid - a unified platform that allows any energy-related asset to seamlessly connect and work together. Most solutions today are asset- or company-specific, and very few speak or work together. Voltra aims to change that.

They are launching today with their first product, Charge.

Built for electric vehicle charging, it has intelligent load management, real-time grid coordination, and a unified API across multi-vendor hardware and systems. More important, it provides access to the thousands of physical assets and vendors that will serve as the foundation to a more intelligent grid.

Congratulations to @alexstratmoen and @AryanAfrouzi and the whole Voltra team!

Also - no joke - I got a power outage while drafting this last night. We need to fix this!