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Eric Tarczynski

Founder + Managing Partner at Contrary

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Work Experience

2017

  • Founder + Managing Partner

    2017

    Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build, from seed to scale. Our LPs include leading institutions, along with founders of Tesla, Reddit, Facebook, Airbnb, and many more iconic companies.

2016

  • Investor

    2016

    Personal investor in: Ramp, Conception Bio, Hermeus, and a few dozen other incredible startups.

2014 - 2015

  • Early Employee | BD

    2014 - 2015

    Kamcord's core thesis was that people do very interesting things on their phone screens, but don't have a good way to capture and share those moments. Raised $35M from a16z, Tencent, Time Warner, GungHo, Translink, GV, and other great investors. Acquired by Lyft.

2012 - 2014

  • Co-founder & COO

    2012 - 2014

    Pioneered restaurant mobile payments technology with Northeastern friends. Didn't work out (lost to a seed-stage co in Boston called Toast), but at the time the best learning experience of my life.

  • Intern

    2008 - 2008

    Summer job.