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@browserbase Congrats on the new role @shreypandya! 🙌

Browserbase helps you build agents that interact with the web. But sometimes, the edge cases require a human touch. Meet Shrey, our newest Click Engineer.

@CatalystLabsX Congrats!!

Introducing Catalyst, the agent layer for all of finance. Turn any natural language idea into a live strategy: research, backtesting & execution. Don’t get left behind. Waitlist open, join now.

😙 @neo scholar retreat!!

Today, we're launching Ramp Agent Cards. There's been no safe way for agents to spend money, until now. Ramp Agent Cards give agents the ability to spend, governed with real spend limits, merchant controls, and full visibility into every transaction.

@shreypandya Holy memory usage

Hot swapping between coding agents is not without its consequences

Today we unveiled Neo Residency, a new program for startups and high-agency student teams. 🎉 We’re replacing our best-known program, Neo Accelerator, with something even better and more selective. 🧵

@ameyajadhav_ @sama @OpenAI Aura

cool guy @sama. thanks for coming

@zainkho @tryramp Congrats Zain!!

Created a fake Depop store where you can bid on my not-for-sale @tryramp stuff for my 4 year anniversary

Thank you to our investors for supporting Valinor in our mission to use AI to transform clinical trials, which are the core bottleneck to drug development. The work ahead is clear: partner with drug developers to bring better medicines to market faster by making every clinical trial smarter, more targeted, and more likely to succeed for patients. Now back to work!

@tkkong @tryramp Incredible run! Grateful we got to work together!

After 5.5 years and selling my startup to @tryramp, I wrapped up my time last month. I first joined Ramp as employee #20 in March 2020 where I was an early designer and product lead. I left 2.5 years in to found Venue, a procurement automation company that Sequoia backed and Ramp acquired a year later. With the Venue team, we led Ramp’s procurement product from inception to thousands of customers and billions in payment volume. And most recently over the summer, I joined our Applied AI team to help start @RampLabs and launch Agent Fill and Ramp Sheets. I’m grateful to have been a part of the Ramp journey. I saw what exceptional looks like and how that’s evolved from a 20-person startup to a $32B company. Many people mention eng velocity as the key to Ramp’s success but it all starts with the people. Eric & Karim are world class recruiters and frequently take bets on early talent. Hiring well is one of the greatest compounders in company building - nearly all of Ramp’s early hires were referrals. Even at its scale today, I’m amazed at how much time they prioritize on recruiting. Thank you @eglyman @karimatiyeh for taking a bet on me twice, @genejaelee for being my Korean older brother, and @geoffintech @diegozaks for their product & design masterclass. As for what’s next, I’m excited to share more soon.

@pranavramesh25 @OpenAI @modal @axolotl_ai 🔥🔥🔥

💬 Introducing Textreme: Cursor Tab for iMessage 💬 Textreme is an AI response generation agent finetuned on your texts to respond to messages and sound exactly like you. And it works scarily well. - @OpenAI OSS 20B model finetuned with @modal and @axolotl_ai for Tab Mode - @aisdk for Agent Mode - UI built with Electron/React Built with @emilyhanyf, @ameyajadhav_, and @connorffogarty as part of the @neo hackathon🚀 Read more at devpost.com/software/textr…

From Day 1, Contrary's mission has been to identify and invest in the world's most exceptional people. It’s enabled us to be early backers of companies like Zepto, Ramp, Hallow, Anduril, and many others. Our student Venture Partners are a key part of this process. They’re an exceptional team of builders who work closely with us to discover the next generation of founders at universities across the US and Canada. Each year, we run a rigorous recruitment and selection process to identify a small number of VPs to join our community. This year was one of our most selective and competitive years yet: we received nearly 1500 applications, of which we ultimately accepted 20. They are a diverse group of exceptional builders, founders, researchers, investors, writers, engineers, and everything in between, and we are thrilled today to welcome them to the Contrary family. This year’s class includes: • Current and former founders who have raised over $15M+ in venture capital • Thiel fellows, competitive programmers, Wimbledon players, published researchers, and former investors • Product builders with apps that have served 1M+ users • Musicians (tabla and jori players, jazz singers, and violinists) who have performed at venues around the world • Builders of spectrofluorometers, mushroom-picking robots, solar plants, and photonic chips As we’ve gotten to know them over the past few weeks, we couldn’t be more excited to start working together. We’re thrilled to welcome the following new Venture Partners to the Contrary family!

@tinabmai Congrats on launch Tina!!

i’ve been deeply obsessed with the question of how to make humans less fragile. several months ago i decided to leave Stanford to research and deploy the biological machine learning methods that can get us closer. can finally share that i’ve been on the founding team @valthostech working on bio ML research + deriving from first principles what the OS to safeguard humanity from biological threats looks like :)

Meet the 2025 Neo Scholars!🎉 Congrats to these 18 exceptional students who will embark on a year-long program of events and mentorship to accelerate their paths as future tech leaders. (1/2)

Introducing Vega: See who you are, from the people who matter.

We recently wrapped our Retreat weekend in Austin, TX, where we brought together current and past Venture Partners. It's always one of the most energizing weekends each year for me to reconnect with and be inspired by my Contrary peers. Our community is now 300+ strong and filled with incredible founders, operators and investors. For those who are excited about joining us, applications are open until this Sunday, September 14th. Apply here: lnkd.in/g66ZumBD