Contrary Capital, which has raised money from Tesla, Reddit, SoFi and Twitch, knows a thing or two about how to work with tech’s brightest mafias. Now it wants to invest in them, before anyone else.

Contrary Capital, a university-focused venture capital fund founded by entrepreneur Eric Tarczynski, launched today at noon. The fund provides financial backing to startups founded by students, ...

When Eric Tarczynski was first building Contrary Capital, he noticed there was an absence of venture capital firms focused on entrepreneurs within universities. So, he launched a $2.2 million debut ...

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