Eric Tarczynski
Managing Partner at Contrary
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder + Managing Partner
2017 - Current
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.
Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.
Investor
2016
Personal investor in: Ramp, Conception Bio, Hermeus, and a few dozen other incredible startups.
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.
Kamcord is a social media platform allowing its users to post and interact through video content.
Raised $37,939,889.00 from Tencent, Plug and Play, XG Ventures, Wargaming, Translink Capital and WarnerMedia.
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.
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