Neo Financial is a digital banking platform that wants to simplify spending, savings, borrowing, and investing for Canadians. Through partnerships with financial institutions, it provides financial offerings like cards, credit-building, bill pay, and mortgages.

Neo Financial is a digital banking platform that wants to simplify spending, savings, borrowing, and investing for Canadians.

Neo Financial – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Digital marketplaces are reshaping retail by pushing the luxury fashion industry into online sales. This is a trend that only grew during the COVID-19 pandemic. Related to this, streetwear is increasingly becoming a big part of mainstream fashion, merging high-end labels with youth culture. GOAT Group is a holding company that house 4 luxury fashion platforms — GOAT, alias, Flight Club, and Grailed — for primary and secondary sales of sneakers, streetwear, apparel, and accessories online and offline through peer-to-peer and consignment-based marketplaces. 

GOAT Group is a holding company that houses 4 luxury fashion platforms for primary and secondary sale through peer-to-peer and consignment-based marketplaces.

GOAT – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Empowering developers to use the cloud effectively

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OpenAI is primarily focused on advancing research and building foundational models in reinforcement learning, natural language processing, robotics, generative language, and multimodal models. At the core of OpenAI’s product is providing an extensible API that provides access to all of their models. OpenAI's core products are: (1) GPT (generative pre-trained transformers) and (2) DALL-E (large models for images).

OpenAI is primarily focused on advancing research and building foundational models in reinforcement learning, natural language processing, robotics, generative language, and multimodal models.

OpenAI – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Illumio has emerged as the leading platform for Zero Trust and network segmentation security. As ransomware and cyber hacks continue to increase, companies need platforms to protect them. Illumio is a cloud-based platform offering data center security for workloads Illumio is a platform for companies to stop breaches before they become a cyber disaster. They go about protecting enterprises' networks by granularly segmenting multiple networks to ensure when a hack happens, the attacker doesn't infiltrate other parts of a company's network.

Illumio is a cloud-based platform offering data center security for workloads. Illumio is a platform for stopping breaches through a process called microsegmentation.

Illumio – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides spot and futures trading for retail and professional investors looking to buy, sell, and use blockchain assets. The company focuses on offering cryptocurrency traders secure advanced trading options with low costs for high-volume trades for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 40+ other digital assets. Kraken’s core services are cryptocurrency trading and subscription trading services. They also offer additional services for customers to create additional value using their assets, such as staking, infrastructure projects, and banking. Kraken generates most of its revenue from transaction and subscription fees, with a smaller portion coming from subscription “Pro” accounts.

Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides spot and futures trading for retail and professional investors looking to buy, sell, and use blockchain assets.

Kraken – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Netskope is a network security platform that offers secure remote access, cloud-hosted application protection, and secure internet access solutions based on zero trust principles. The company is riding industry-wide secular trends including remote and hybrid work environments, cloud adoption, and the convergence of networking and network security functions.

Netskope is a network security platform that offers secure remote access, cloud-hosted application protection, and secure internet access solutions based on zero trust principles.

Netskope – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Lacework is a cloud security services provider that automates cloud security at scale so customers can innovate with speed and safety. Lacework delivers native cloud infrastructure compliance and security for DevOps, workloads, and cloud containers. They continuously and automatically monitors your environment so companies do not need to create or edit policies or algorithms. Lacework provides the ability to scan, identify, and report vulnerabilities found in the operating system of cloud workloads. 

Lacework is a cloud security services provider that automates cloud security at scale. Lacework delivers native compliance and security for DevOps, workloads, and cloud containers.

Lacework – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Snyk is a developer-focused cybersecurity company. It specializes in automatically fixing vulnerabilities in code, open source dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code. Snyk’s platform detects security vulnerabilities during the software development lifecycle and automates the process of fixing them. Snyk utilizes an open-source database that provides intelligence on detecting vulnerabilities in open-source codebases and suggesting actionable solutions for developers to fix them.

Snyk is a developer-focused cybersecurity company that specializes in fixing vulnerabilities in code, open-source dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code.

Snyk – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Cybereason is a cybersecurity company that provides endpoint prevention, detection, and incident response solutions. Cybereason was built to detect any suspicious activities, quarantine compromised users from the network, and help in conducting a fast, detailed and thorough investigation in the event of a breach.

Cybereason is a cybersecurity company that provides endpoint prevention, detection, and incident response solutions.

Cybereason - Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

The NFT marketplaces play an important role in the digital economy, allowing creators and collectors to showcase, discover, and transact NFTs. The global non-fungible token market is expected to reach $211.7 billion by 2030. However, the NFT space is still relatively new. Users often encounter fragmented ecosystems, high transaction fees, and bugs, resulting in barriers to entry and limiting the market's growth.

Magic Eden is an NFT marketplace initially focused on digital collectibles in the Solana blockchain, designed to address the challenges faced by traditional NFT platforms. By leveraging the Solana network's high throughput, low latency, and low-cost transactions, Magic Eden offers creators and collectors a fast and affordable NFT trading experience.

Magic Eden is an NFT marketplace initially focused on digital collectibles in the Solana blockchain, designed to address the challenges faced by traditional NFT platforms.

Magic Eden – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Primer is building a new education system for parents and students who want an alternative to what Primer CEO Ryan Delk, in an interview with Contrary Research, called the “public-private duopoly”.  Its vision is to circumvent what Delk describes as the broken status quo of education in the US. Although it began with internet-only education products that were meant to supplement students’ educations, as of December 2022 Primer’s core offering is its in-person Microschools product.

Primer is building a new education system for parents and students who want an alternative to what Primer CEO Ryan Delk, in an interview with Contrary Research, called the “public-private duopoly”.

Primer – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Dialpad is a cloud-based, modern business communication, collaboration, and contact center platform. It offers real-time transcription, automated note-taking, live sentiment, and voice analytics. Its products cover the full range of business communications needs across voice, video, group messaging, text, conferencing, screen sharing, and document-sharing services, enabling employees to collaborate in a single platform. Dialpad integrates UCaas and CCaaS. It brands this as TrueCaaS, a platform with the aim of giving users a “single pane of glass” for all business communications.

Dialpad is a cloud-based, modern business communication, collaboration, and contact center platform that offers real-time transcription, automated note-taking, live sentiment, and voice analytics.

Dialpad – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Computers are one of the most powerful tools we have but building technology is something only a small percentage of people can do. In 2021, there were just under 30 million software developers worldwide, less than half a percent of the global population. Lowering the on-ramp for people to learn how to build technology is a key pillar of Replit's company mission. Replit has built a browser-based collaborative integrated development environment (IDE) that is suited for programmers who are just getting started, or established programmers interested in a simple environment to play around with a side project. Replit's long-term vision is an ecosystem where developers can build and monetize their projects more seamlessly. 

Replit is a browser-based collaborative integrated development environment (IDE) for both beginners and tenured programmers. Developers can build and monetize their projects on Replit.

Replit – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Founded in 2017, CoinTracker is one of the earliest movers in the crypto tax and portfolio space, creating products that make it easy for nontechnical users to track their portfolio and generate tax forms for their crypto investments. By supporting the latest crypto asset derivatives and providing guidance for new crypto regulations, CoinTracker helps retail and institutional investors monitor their portfolios and maintain tax compliance.

CoinTracker is one of the earliest movers in the crypto tax and portfolio space, creating products that make it easy for nontechnical users to track their portfolio and generate tax forms for their crypto investments.

CoinTracker – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Nova Labs aspires to expand beyond LoRaWAN to be a “network of networks” disruptor to telecommunications and internet services. By August 2022, Nova Labs planned to bring ~1.9K 5G nodes online across 700 cities in the US. Providing 5G networks increases the potential market size to $25B. As Nova Lab matures, the company’s CEO, Amir Haleem, aspires to utilize blockchain and decentralized infrastructure to revolutionize other network protocols like Wifi and VPN. 

Initially, Nova Labs used crypto tokens (HNT) issued to hotspot operators for “coverage” to incentivize buying and operating the hotspots. In the early days before 2021, the price for the tokens and the rate of token issuing could make an operator attractive returns. However, in 2022, the incentive structure has unraveled; the overall crypto market decline put downward pressure on HNT ($2.20 as of November 21, 2022 down from a high of $50.77 a year before) and lagging demand for the Nova Lab infrastructure slowed token issuing.  It remains to be seen if Nova Labs can sell its infrastructure in a way that makes money or if the token economics are viable for operators that provide the infrastructure.

Nova Labs aspires to expand beyond LoRaWAN to be a “network of networks” disruptor to telecommunications and internet services.

Nova Labs – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Uniswap is an on-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol built on top of Ethereum for swapping ERC-20 tokens. Users provide trading liquidity between ERC-20 asset pairs on Uniswap through liquidity pools. Uniswap is one of the first automated market makers (AMMs) capable of determining the trading price of assets using price oracles. Uniswap provides value to traders and liquidity providers (LPs), allowing traders to easily swap tokens and LPs to earn high fees in exchange for providing liquidity. It is the biggest DEX in terms of market share, and one of the oldest and most reputable DEXes.

Uniswap is an on-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) that provides value to traders and liquidity providers (LPs), allowing traders to easily swap tokens and LPs to earn high fees in exchange for liquidity.

Uniswap Labs – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

OpenSea is a cryptocurrency Ethereum-focused non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace where anyone can create, sell, and buy NFTs. NFTs are unique and non-fungible digital items stored on the blockchain. During the second half of 2021, roughly ~85% of all non-fungible tokens (NFTs) marketplace transactions were happening on OpenSea. NFT buyers, sellers, and traders increased the volume of OpenSea in 2021 to over $14 billion.

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Sardine is a company that helps crypto platforms prevent fraud, increase authorization rates, and remain compliant with respective crypto on-ramp requirements, NFT checkout, and fraud & compliance products. Sardine has focused their product around a fraud prevention system. This is made up of a few key parts: (1) a fraud detection algorithm, (2) a no-code rule builder, and (3) an all-in-one dashboard and case manager for risk operations teams

Sardine is a company that helps crypto platforms prevent fraud, increase authorization rates, and remain compliant with respective crypto on-ramp requirements, NFT checkout, and fraud & compliance products.

Sardine – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Panther uses artificial intelligence to centralize, normalize, and analyze security data to enable cybersecurity teams to detect, investigate, and monitor security threats and misconfigurations at scale. The company aims to disrupt the legacy SIEM industry with its cloud-native platform. 

The company’s core product architecture is built on the storage layer of the three major cloud providers. Panther uses an open security data lake architecture built around Snowflake that decouples compute from storage, this allows organizations to manage and retain large amounts of data for much longer.   Panther competes with vendors like Splunk, Hunters, Elastic, Sumo Logic and Exabeam. They also indirectly compete against endpoint detection vendors like SentinelOne, and Palo Alto Networks Cortex. 

Panther uses artificial intelligence to centralize, normalize, and analyze security data to enable cybersecurity teams to detect, investigate, and monitor security threats.

Panther Labs – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Railway is a software deployment platform tailored for engineers to simplify the deployment of apps and services. Its goal is to make it easy for engineers to deploy infrastructure. The company enables developers to host their environments on Railway in the cloud, allowing them to provision databases and services without needing to configure them for different environments and access them from any terminal. With Railway, developers get support to deliver software through the entire application life-cycle through git native tooling, composable infrastructure, and built-in instrumentation.

Railway is a software deployment platform tailored for engineers to simplify the deployment of apps and services.

Railway – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Watershed is a software platform aiming to help companies decarbonize their operations. The company provides both a carbon accounting platform for customers to accurately measure and track their carbon footprint and a carbon offset marketplace. Climate change and how we reduce our carbon footprint continue to be a major challenge. Watershed is a company aiming to solve this problem.

Watershed's software helps companies to measure their carbon footprint, reduce emissions, fund carbon removal, and build a carbon reduction plan. Its features include a carbon data engine that analyzes emissions for every line item of your business, analyzes emissions with a real-time dashboard, analyzes emissions and eliminates them from business, and more. 

Watershed is a software platform aiming to help companies decarbonize their operations. The company provides both a carbon accounting platform for customers to accurately measure and track their carbon footprint, and a carbon offset marketplace.

Watershed – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

MoonPay is a product that allows users to more easily convert their fiat currencies into digital assets. MoonPay accepts all major payment methods from its users, including debit cards, credit cards, and GooglePay. In addition, MoonPay has received regulatory approval from the UK in the form of a Financial Conduct Authority registration as of early 2023. Sometimes referred to as the PayPal of crypto, the platform claims to have delivered more than $2 billlion in crypto assets, and has 5 million customers who use one of several products which enable users to buy and sell crypto, purchase NFTs, assist celebrities with crypto transactions, and spin up and sell their own NFT collections.

MoonPay is a product that allows users to more easily convert their fiat currencies into digital assets.

MoonPay – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Businesses are increasingly reaching their customers online. In the US, the fraction of retail sales conducted online rose from 17% in 2019 to an estimated ~24% in 2022. Globally, this proportion rose from 15% to ~22% over the same time period.

Stripe is a developer-oriented payments company that enables businesses of all sizes to accept credit card payments easily and quickly. Having launched in 2010, Stripe has significantly impacted the payments industry and is used by companies such as Amazon, Instacart, Zoom, Slack, and Shopify. Millions of businesses of all sizes — from startups to Fortune 500s — now use Stripe to accept payments, send payouts and manage their businesses online. Stripe’s aim is to build and modernize online financial infrastructure in the service of its stated mission to “increase the GDP of the internet”.

Stripe is a developer-oriented payments company that enables businesses of all sizes to accept credit card payments easily and quickly.

Stripe – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Wiz offers a comprehensive suite of cloud security solutions to help companies protect their cloud infrastructure and workloads. Wiz provides cloud security visibility and manages cloud misconfigurations for software development teams. Wiz integrates into the development pipeline to prevent issues from the earliest stages of development.  Wiz supports security for all the major clouds — AWS, Microsoft and Google — along with Oracle and Alibaba clouds. They use a security graph that helps to correlate all information across different areas of a company from the cloud workloads to the networks.

Wiz offers a comprehensive suite of cloud security solutions to help companies protect their cloud infrastructure and workloads.

Wiz – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Outschool is building a tech-enabled K-12 education product intended to tackle the stagnation of US education. Outschool provides a marketplace of live online classes for kids aged 3-18. Unlike traditional schooling, Outschool classes allow kids to explore their interests in depth via interactive, live video lessons provided by experienced, independent educators. With Outschool, parents can easily browse the course catalog and book classes with just a few clicks, while students can learn at their own pace and with the guidance of qualified instructors.

Outschool is building a tech-enabled K-12 education product intended to tackle the stagnation of US education.

Outschool – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

OpenStore provides liquidity for ecommerce merchants. By automating the pricing process, OpenStore gives business owners an offer within one day and closes within the week, providing founders access to a payout. Whether through their acquisition process with instant liquidity, or the newest service OpenStore Drive, they aspire to take over Shopify stores managing everything from marketing and advertising to customer service and inventory, allowing ecommerce merchants to move on to whatever comes next. 

OpenStore aspires to take over Shopify stores managing everything from marketing and advertising to customer service and inventory, allowing ecommerce merchants to move on to whatever comes next.

OpenStore – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources.

The global big data and business analytics market was valued at $198.1 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach $684.1 billion by 2030. Databricks help organizations prepare data for analytics, empower data-driven decisions, and adopt machine learning. It was founded by the original creators of popular open-source projects, including Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. It helps its customers unify their analytics across business functions, data science, and engineering. It also enables data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and other lines of business to build data products. Its journey started as a data lake supporting open-source Apache Spark. Today, it has expanded into a broader platform, including a Databricks Marketplace incorporating data storage and positioning itself as a data lakehouse.

Databricks  is an enterprise software company that provides data science tools for processing and transforming huge volumes of data to build machine learning models. Its platform built on top of distributed Cloud computing environments like Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Interactive that enables Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Analysts to collaborate and work closely on data science notebooks, models, libraries, and building machine learning pipelines at scale.  

The core platform is the Databricks' Lakehouse which is based on the open-source Apache Spark framework that allows analytical queries to be processed on semi-structured data. They also support open-source versions for Delta lake, ML Flow and have built-in security governance with Unity catalog for implementing large data projects. 

Databricks is an enterprise software company that provides data science tools for processing and transforming huge volumes of data to build machine learning models.

Databricks – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Bowery Farming is a vertical farming company growing produce in controlled indoor environments using autonomous hydroponic farms for the cultivation of leafy greens. Farming has long been thought of as an archaic industry. With climate change creating hostile growing conditions, one company is changing that by introducing modern farming methods through vertical farming. 

Bowery Farming is a vertical farming company growing produce in controlled indoor environments. The company uses modern farming to grow food produce. It is on a mission to grow food for a better future by revolutionizing agriculture.

Bowery Farming – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources.

Wealthfront is a robo-advisor that offers a combination of financial planning, investment management, and banking services through its investing platform. Wealthfront aims to make inconvenient financial advisor meetings a thing of the past and allow building a balanced portfolio of investments to become more accessible and frictionless. It integrates investing and saving products to help young professionals build long-term wealth in varying market conditions.

Wealthfront is a robo-advisor that offers a combination of financial planning, investment management, and banking services through its investing platform.

Wealthfront – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources.

Pendo is a comprehensive product experience platform that allows companies to combine software usage analytics with in-app guidance and user feedback, enabling teams to deliver better product experiences to their customers. It allows companies to analyze where customers find the most value in their products, prioritize roadmaps, collect feedback, and onboard users.

Pendo is a comprehensive product experience platform that allows companies to combine software usage analytics with in-app guidance and user feedback, enabling teams to deliver better product experiences to their customers.

Pendo – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

The 2010s saw the rise of neobanks, also known as digital banks or challenger banks, in the United States. Neobanks offer various financial services from checking and savings accounts to loans and debit cards. Neobanks often have lower fees and minimum balance requirements than traditional banks, making them more accessible to more people, especially lower income Americans that are unbanked or underbanked. Moreover, neobanks typically aim to make banking simple and convenient for customers with easy-to-use apps.

Chime is a neobank that provides consumer banking services through its mobile app. It started as a mobile banking app that offered no-fee bank accounts, debit cards, and a way to get paychecks two days in advance. It has since added several other offerings to become a comprehensive banking product suite for its younger, millennial audience.

Chime is a neobank that provides consumer banking services through its mobile app.

Chime – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Gecko Robotics builds wall-climbing robots and enterprise software to protect the physical infrastructure that underpins the economy. Its combination of robotics and software aims to improve the ability to inspect, protect, and efficiently maintain critical infrastructure. Its software processes the data the robots capture and enables human experts to contextualize that data and translate it into action and insights. Using robots, Gecko Robotics performs inspections 10 times faster than traditional methods and collects 1K times more data, providing accurate measurements on the state of key assets while eliminating risk of fatality or injury for human inspectors.

Gecko Robotics builds wall-climbing robots and enterprise software to protect the physical infrastructure that underpins the economy.

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Nuro is a company that creates autonomous delivery vehicles for local goods transportation and aims to transform the last-mile delivery landscape. Its goal is to help merchants deliver goods to customers quickly, affordably, and safely. By leveraging advanced sensing and artificial intelligence, Nuro aims to provide an offering that reduces labor costs, improve operational efficiency, and enhances safety in the same-day and last-mile delivery spaces. Nuro has strategic partnerships with major retailers like Chipotle, Kroger, and Walmart, and has positioned itself to capitalize on the continuing growth of e-commerce.

Nuro is a company that creates autonomous delivery vehicles for local goods transportation and aims to transform the last-mile delivery landscape.

Nuro – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Applied Intuition offers an easy-to-integrate end-to-end simulation platform, enabling clients to design, test, and validate their autonomous systems in a virtual environment before testing on the road. Applied Intuition’s suite of products, focused on simulation and analytics, provides software infrastructure for self-driving testing. As it continues expanding its simulation and data suite, it is moving to provide simulation testing for autonomous robotics, trucking, and defense vehicles. 

Applied Intuition offers an easy-to-integrate end-to-end simulation platform, enabling clients to design, test, and validate their autonomous systems in a virtual environment before testing on the road.

Applied Intuition – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Modern Treasury provides payment operations software for companies, allowing them to move and track money easily by automating the cycle of money movement from payment initiation through to approvals and reconciliation. Its API enables companies to connect to banks and send and automatically reconcile wires, ACH and real-time payments, and facilitate continuous accounting instead of letting the transactions pile up until they are cleared at the end of the month.

Modern Treasury provides payment operations software for companies, allowing them to move and track money easily by automating the cycle of money movement from payment initiation through to approvals and reconciliation.

Modern Treasury – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Scale is a provider of cloud-based data training and validation solutions. The company offers training data set for various industries like autonomous driving, robotics, retail, and more. As the demand for machine learning continues to grow within multiple industries, companies need to ensure they have correctly labeled data.

Scale is a provider of cloud-based data training and validation solutions. The company offers training data sets and machine learning models for a wide variety of industries.

Scale – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Mercury aspires to reimagine the startup banking experience by combining the stability of regulated banks with modern technology. It offers FDIC-insured accounts, virtual & physical debit cards, currency exchange, and domestic and international wires. Mercury provides an API, custom team management, and integrations with the tools like Quickbooks and Stripe.  Since the launch of its first product in 2019, Mercury has grown rapidly, reaching over 100K customers across 180+ countries.

Mercury aspires to reimagine the startup banking experience by combining the stability of regulated banks with modern technology.

Mercury – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources.

Dutchie is a technology platform powering cannabis commerce, streamlining dispensary operations, and providing safe and easy access for consumers. For cannabis businesses, it is a one-stop shop, providing a point of sale, payments, insurance, and more. Dutchie wants to help them start, operate, and grow. It also helps consumers discover and shop from local recreational and medicinal dispensaries.

Dutchie is a technology platform powering cannabis commerce, streamlining dispensary operations, and providing safe and easy access for consumers.

Dutchie – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Solugen is a company with a carbon-negative molecule factory that replaces petroleum-based products with plant-derived substitutes. Solugen's patented bioforge processes produce chemicals from bio-based feedstocks based on synthetic biology, metal catalyst engineering, and modular plant design developments. It aspires to reimagine the chemistry of everyday life with enzymes found in nature and wants to make chemicals better, faster, and cheaper while eliminating the need for fossil fuels in chemical manufacture. 

Solugen aspires to reimagine the chemistry of everyday life with enzymes found in nature and wants to make chemicals better, faster, and cheaper while eliminating the need for fossil fuels in chemical manufacture.

Solugen – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

BeReal is a social media app designed to meet changing preferences around social media use by showcasing life without filters. Each day, users are prompted to post a photo within a randomized 2 minute window, encouraging them to allow their friends an unfiltered glimpse at their daily lives. If users do not post that day, they can’t view content that has been recently posted by their friends. The app is known for its simplicity, and was the first mainstream social platform to leverage a dual camera, a feature that Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat have since replicated. Unlike most social platforms, BeReal is not designed for users to grow their following and focus on building existing relationships between people by removing the opportunity to stage, filter, and edit photos. BeReal’s emphasis of authentic content is intended to differentiate it from other social media.

BeReal is a social media app designed to meet changing preferences around social media use by showcasing life without filters.

BeReal – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Doctolib is a healthcare booking platform and software provider. Founded in 2013 and based in Paris, France, Doctolib started as a scheduling platform but has been adding services, including telemedicine, messaging, and back-office operations management during the pandemic, to become an all-in-one solution for healthcare professionals. It also became the most valuable French startup in 2022.

Doctolib is a healthcare booking platform and software provider.

Doctolib – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources.

Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets. Its goal is to automate the rocket manufacturing process, reduce the number of parts in a rocket, build a launchable rocket in two months, and sustain Martian colonies using methane as rocket fuel. By building in-house rockets, Relativity Space aspires to achieve flexibility and automation while advancing research and development through rapid iteration.

Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets.

Relativity Space – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Mem is an AI-enabled notetaking app for tracking information and then making intelligent connections between those ideas. The goal of the product is to augment your memory by capturing everything, and isolating what information is most relevant in a given context.

Mem is an AI-enabled notetaking app for tracking information and then making intelligent connections between those ideas.

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Skydio manufactures drones used by consumers, enterprises, and government customers. It designs, assembles, and supports the use of its products in the US. Skydio also develops software for its drones in house. It is the leading drone manufacturer in the US, and its customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. State Departments of Transportation, public safety agencies across states, and energy utilities.

Skydio manufactures drones used by consumers, enterprises, and government customers.

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Headway has created a platform that connects patients, therapists, and insurance companies in the mental health ecosystem. Headway makes it easy for therapists to accept insurance coverage by offering claims management administrative support, payments, and scheduling. Headway improves the patient experience by allowing patients to search for therapists who best fit their needs, book appointments directly online, and get visibility into the costs they will be responsible for as part of their treatment. Insurance companies partner with Headway to increase access and quality for their health plan networks.

Headway has created a platform that connects patients, therapists, and insurance companies in the mental health ecosystem.

Headway – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

AirGarage is a tech-enabled service that takes a software-first approach to parking lot management. It's a two-sided marketplace with parking lot owners on one side and drivers on the other. For lot owners, AirGarage has created tools to help automate the operation of parking lots and parking garages, including payment collection, camera-based enforcement, and advertising across parking apps; but as a technology-enabled service, AirGarage doesn’t just provide tools, it also provides full-stack parking management. It also provides analytics to help owners understand occupancy and revenue trends. For drivers, the AirGarage app is intended to make it easier to find the best available parking spot nearby.

AirGarage is a tech-enabled service that takes a software-first approach to parking lot management.

AirGarage – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Statsig is a platform that enables companies to run rapid product experiments and analyze how users respond to new features. It aspires to accelerate product innovation by enabling anyone with an idea, from developers and PMs to designers, to run rapid tests, iterate, measure business impact, and ship features.

Statsig is a platform that enables companies to run rapid product experiments and analyze how users respond to new features.

Statsig – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Descript offers tools to record, edit, transcribe, collaborate, and share videos and podcasts. It started as an audio editing tool which took recorded audio and gave the user a transcript that they could easily edit. Deleting a word from the text transcript would remove that same word from the audio file. Descript later expanded into video editing. The company believes the division between audio and video editing tools should become obsolete because content creators today don't neatly fall within the traditional boundaries between content mediums. For instance, YouTubers make podcasts, and podcasters distribute their content on YouTube, signaling the need for a comprehensive tool like Descript that makes both audio and video editing simpler.

Descript offers tools to record, edit, transcribe, collaborate, and share videos and podcasts.

Descript – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

ClickUp is an all-in-one productivity platform that brings teams, tasks, and tools together in one place. ClickUp aims to offer a bundled productivity solution that streamlines workflows and increases collaboration by integrating various, often-standalone features across task management, messaging, documents, spreadsheets, goal-setting, and more.

ClickUp is an all-in-one productivity platform that brings teams, tasks, and tools together in one place.

ClickUp – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Glossier is a direct-to-consumer beauty and skincare brand that leverages content and community to power a superior shopping experience. Glossier’s products line incudes modern essentials spanning skincare, makeup, body and fragrance. As one of the early pioneers in the DTC beauty and skincare landscape, Glossier has built an online community of younger female generations with its community-led social media approach and converted them to loyal customers.

Glossier is a direct-to-consumer beauty and skincare brand that leverages content and community to power a superior shopping experience.

Glossier – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Neuralink is creating the future of brain-machine interfaces: building devices now that will help people with paralysis and inventing new technologies. Their goal is to build a system with at least two orders of magnitude more communication channels (electrodes) than current clinically-approved devices. The focus is on creating a system that is safe, has fully wireless communication through the skin, and is ready for patients to take home and use on their own. Their device, called the Link, will be able to record from 1024 electrodes and is designed to meet these criteria.

Neuralink is building a brain-computer interface operating through a system with at least two orders of magnitude more communication channels (electrodes) than current clinically-approved devices.

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Zip provides a platform for the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, covering new purchase order management, accounts payable (AP) automation, and global B2B payments. Zip makes it easy for employees to request purchases and provides visual workflows for approvals across finance, legal, procurement, IT, and security teams. It hopes to help employees at organizations avoid jumping through hoops or navigating confusing processes when buying the software, services, or products they need to do their jobs.

Zip provides a platform for the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, covering new purchase order management, accounts payable (AP) automation, and global B2B payments.

Zip – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Turo is a car-sharing marketplace that allows car owners to rent out their vehicles when not in use, increasing the utilization of vehicles by unlocking latent supply while providing a new source of income for car owners. Turo gives car renters access to a diverse selection of vehicles they can book at their convenience on an app, with greater flexibility and less paperwork than typically experienced with legacy car rental companies. 

Turo is a car-sharing marketplace that allows car owners to rent out their vehicles when not in use, increasing the utilization of vehicles by unlocking latent supply while providing a new source of income for car owners.

Turo – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Navan is an end-to-end travel management platform for corporations with booking, tracking, reporting, and expensing tools. Navan uses modern software coupled with 24/7 traveler support and smart incentives to solve common problems in business travel. Its goal is to provide a personalized and easy-to-use experience that makes corporate employees traveling for business feel like VIPs. It uses traveler feedback to offer the best flights and hotels according to their preferences and amenities. It also provides rewards to incentivize compliance with the corporate policy in a manner that optimizes cost, convenience, and user satisfaction. With features such as automatic expense report generation, the input of frequent flyer and TSA information, and proactive support intervention in case of flight delays, Navan streamlines the business travel experience.

Navan is an end-to-end travel management platform for corporations with booking, tracking, reporting, and expensing tools.

Navan – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

For consumers who want to own a home but can’t qualify for a mortgage, rent-to-own programs like that provided by Divvy are an option that provides them with the time to accumulate a solid credit history and the means of savings towards a downpayment. Divvy is a tech-enabled real estate platform that facilitates rent-to-own home purchases. Divvy purchases homes on behalf of its customers and leases the properties to them such that a portion of rent goes towards customer equity in the home, with the goal of selling these properties to the customer at the end of a three-year lease. Even before they receive the deed, customers have access to many of the perks of being a homeowner, like higher-quality homes in better neighborhoods. With this approach to homeownership, Divvy aims to help a new generation of Americans become homeowners and start building wealth. 

Divvy Homes is a tech-enabled real estate platform that facilitates rent-to-own home purchases.

Divvy Homes – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Chainalysis is a blockchain analytics company that provides data and analysis to government agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses. The company enables over 1K customers across 70 countries to investigate illicit activities, mitigate risk, and comply with regulatory requirements. Its products have been instrumental in several high-profile cases, such as the investigation into the Mt. Gox hack and the Silk Road darknet marketplace. Chainalysis's mission is to create transparency and trust in the cryptocurrency ecosystem and help to build a safer, more secure future for cryptocurrency. 

Chainalysis is a blockchain analytics company that provides data and analysis to government agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses.

Chainalysis – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Hipcamp is a marketplace of outdoor stays. It aims to unlock more private land for camping to help address the supply and demand imbalance by connecting landowners with campers looking for unique, accessible stays. Hipcamp makes it easier for campers to list, discover, and book stays. Through Hipcamp, landowners can earn additional income from their land, and their land has a better chance of remaining protected. By unlocking access and simplifying the camping experience, Hipcamp wants to democratize the experience of getting outside, inspiring more people to enjoy and protect our world.

Hipcamp is a marketplace of outdoor stays that aims to unlock more private land for camping to help address the supply and demand imbalance by connecting landowners with campers looking for unique, accessible stays.

Hipcamp – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

AssemblyAI offers APIs to transcribe and understand audio data. It converts audio files and live audio streams to text. Users can do more with audio intelligence, like summarization, content moderation, topic detection, and more. Its API exposes AI models for speech recognition, speaker detection, content moderation, topic detection, and summarization. It aims to build on state-of-the-art AI research to offer production-ready, scalable, and secure AI models through an API.

AssemblyAI offers APIs to transcribe and understand audio data by converting audio files and live audio streams to text.

AssemblyAI – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Warehouses are the physical backbone of the global supply chain. Despite the acceleration in demand, the infrastructure on which the ecommerce relies – the warehouses and third-party logistics providers that store, pick, pack, and ship the items consumers order online – is still far behind.

Locus Robotics is a flexible robotic warehouse automation company that provides autonomous mobile robots that work directly with warehouse associates by assisting in locating, identifying, and picking items during the fulfillment process and reducing the time each task requires. It provides a lower-cost alternative to large-scale industrial conveyors and retrieval systems. It can be deployed in a matter of days without requiring changes to the existing warehouse footprint. Locus Robotics helps retailers, 3PLs, and specialty warehouses efficiently meet and exceed the increasingly complex and demanding requirements of fulfillment environments.

Locus Robotics is a flexible robotic warehouse automation company that provides autonomous mobile robots that work directly with warehouse associates by assisting in locating, identifying, and picking items during the fulfillment process and reducing the time each task requires.

Locus Robotics – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Internal tools are a key part of any enterprise — 80% of developers said that internal tools are critical to their company’s operations. Almost 60% of developers say that their organizations are not investing enough time or resources to build internal tools. As companies grow and teams get larger, this problem only becomes bigger. 

Retool makes building and deploying custom internal tools easier, saving companies valuable time and money. 

Retool makes building and deploying custom internal tools easier, saving companies valuable time and money.

Retool – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

The US healthcare system can be confusing and unnecessarily time-consuming to navigate. Patients have to deal with a fragmented network of healthcare providers and ever-increasing costs, while providers must wrangle with archaic technology stacks and large quantities of administrative paperwork.

Memora aims to solve this by helping healthcare organizations digitize and automate care journeys, making complex care delivery simple for patients and clinicians to navigate. The company uses machine learning to convert fragmented healthcare messaging and workflow data into smart modules that enable clinicians to deliver care more continuously. Memora Health also integrates into electronic medical record and patient management systems, which enables the collection of actionable clinical data outside episodic visits and bridges together patient engagement and administrative workflows into one end-to-end solution.

Memora Health helps healthcare organizations digitize and automate care journeys, making complex care delivery simple for patients and clinicians to navigate.

Memora Health – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Since 2003, when the inaugural supersonic commercial plane was retired due to its engine failure and subsequent crash, demand for air travel has continued to grow. Over the same time, aircraft technology and material design have improved dramatically in areas like carbon fiber, aviation fuel, and software. Supersonic travel will offer a variety of benefits — faster travel, more time at the final destination, reduced traveler’s post-flight fatigue, more often travel, increased accessibility to far-flung places, and more.

Boom Supersonic is a commercial airplane manufacturer that builds supersonic airliners designed for speed, safety, and sustainability. Boom was founded on the philosophy that they needed to overcome the challenges of supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. They aim to make supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel - the company's ultimate goal is a routine supersonic flight for everyone.

Boom Supersonic is a commercial airplane manufacturer that builds supersonic airliners designed for speed, safety, and sustainability.

Report: Boom Supersonic Business Breakdown & Founding Story

Goldfinch is a decentralized credit platform that broadens the pool of potential lenders beyond just banks. It operates as an open marketplace for loans without collateral and employs a decentralized loan underwriting process. Goldfinch’s design is based on two beliefs: (1) that in the 2020s decade, low real bond yields will drive investors to demand new investment opportunities and (2) that global economic activity over this same period will increasingly move on chain, making every transaction programmable. By providing a way for borrowers to show creditworthiness based on the collective assessment of other participants, Goldfinch seeks to make borrowing more accessible, particularly to individuals and businesses in developing countries.

By providing a way for borrowers to show creditworthiness based on the collective assessment of other participants, Goldfinch seeks to make borrowing more accessible, particularly to individuals and businesses in developing countries.

Goldfinch – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

Deel is an all-in-one HR platform for global teams. It helps companies simplify the management of an international workforce, from culture and onboarding to payroll and compliance. Deel helps companies hire independent contractors and full-time employees in more than 150 countries based on local laws specific to every country and worker, from contracts and onboarding to holidays, terminations, benefits, and more.

Deel is an all-in-one HR platform for global teams.

Deel – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

On average, sales representatives only spend one-third of their time selling, with the rest focused on researching and organizing leads. Several companies, like ZoomInfo and D&B Hoovers, have worked to provide access to additional data on leads. Unfortunately, most have unreliable data accuracy. As of August 2019, only 8% of sales and marketing professionals said their data was sufficiently accurate.

Apollo.io is a B2B sales intelligence and engagement platform that provides sales teams with access to contact data for over 220 million contacts and tools to engage with these contacts in one platform. By helping sales professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io streamlines customer engagement. The company’s community-based approach to crowdsourcing data gives users maximum coverage while ensuring data accuracy, and has positioned Apollo.io as an emerging competitor to legacy data platforms.

Apollo.io is a B2B sales intelligence and engagement platform that provides sales teams with access to contact data for over 220 million contacts and tools to engage with these contacts in one platform.

Report: Apollo.io Business Breakdown & Founding Story

The worldwide pizza market is estimated to exceed $140 billion. As larger chains led the move to online ordering and delivery, independent pizzerias began to lose market share - about 8K independent pizzerias closed down from 2006 to 2016 alone.

Slice allows independent pizzerias to increase average order values (AOVs), acquire and retain customers, and find cost and business workflow optimizations. With this approach, Slice seeks to position itself as a mission-critical OS for all independent pizzerias.

Slice is positioning itself as a mission critical OS for by helping independent pizzerias increase average order values (AOVs), acquire and retain customers, and find cost and workflow optimizations

Slice – Contrary Research Company Profile & Resources

In recent years, the workplace has changed meaningfully due to technology. New productivity tools allow teams to improve workflow, organization, and collaboration. One area contributing to this has been the development of tools to create documents. Although these tools have advanced significantly from the days of the pen and paper and the typewriter, the most widely-used tools still look similar to technology originally developed 20-30 years ago. 

Coda is a new kind of document that brings words, data, and teams together. It comes with building blocks that anyone can combine to create a doc as powerful as an app. Coda offers a new way of working together, allowing teams to build whatever they need in order to work effectively. Providing a high degree of customizability and automation in a low-code platform, Coda enables users to create powerful workflows for their specific needs. As companies continue to embrace hybrid and remote work, Coda has established itself as a modern productivity tool for a new way of working.

Coda is a new kind of document that brings words, data, and teams together.

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