# Codie Sanchez

> Codie Sanchez is a seed investor at Contrarian Thinking Capital (Austin) backing Apps and FinTech. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Contrarian Thinking Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/contrarian-thinking)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/codiesanchez/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/codie_sanchez/status/1038490934944653312
- Website: https://www.codiesanchez.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/codie.sanchez.9

Codie Sanchez is a seed investor at Contrarian Thinking Capital in Austin focused on Apps and FinTech. Codie is the founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking, a fast-growing media company that helps people free minds and bank accounts, the founder of Contrarian Thinking Capital VC Fund investing in the infrastructure tech of small business. She also co-founded Unconventional Acquisitions, a firm focused on small business acquisition in the micro-PEspace. She also owns the Main Street Hold Co, a portfolio of small businesses across the US. She is a former partner and Board Member at a cannabis private equity firm and micro-PE firm, built a $1 billion+ AUM Latin America business, and held leadership positions at Goldman Sachs, State Street, and Vanguard. She started as a journalist where she won the JFK award and Howard Buffett Foundation grant for border conflict. Sanchez is a pundit on CNBC, Fox, Forbes, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, People en Español, Business Wire. She was listed as a 25 Most Innovative Leader in Cannabis, The Cannabis Disruptor by MG Retailer, and a Top Cannabis Investor by Forbes. She has an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, a master’s from ESADE and Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and a B.A. from Arizona State University. She sits on the board of the Arcview Group, Permian Capital Hedge Fund, Magma Partners Chilean Venture Fund, and is actively involved in AEI and YEC.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$7M |
| Series A | $7.7M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 3 | 11% |
| FinTech | 3 | 11% |
| Software | 3 | 11% |
| Finance | 2 | 7% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 7% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 46% |
| Series A | 6 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 64% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neutonic | Neutonic is a nootropic energy brand crafted for those striving to perform at their best | $6M | Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Neutonic | Neutonic is a nootropic energy brand crafted for those striving to perform at their best | $3.7M | Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Hone Health | Hone treats men's hormone imbalances and low testosterone with at-home lab testing, physician consultations, and medication | $33M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| HeatMap, Inc | HeatMap, Inc. provides realtime SaaS website analytics, with intuitive heatmaps inspired by augmented reality principles. In realtime, editors and marketers know what is happening right on their website so they can act quickly to optimize the performances of their content and build their audience, improving their user retention or sales. | $4M | Seed | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| doola | doola helps US and Non-US founders turn their dream idea into their dream business. We're a “Business-in-a-Box” for online SMBs. We take care of everything online SMBs need to form an LLC, set up their bank account, accept payments, and manage ongoing compliance and tax filings. |  | Series A | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| Sunset | Sunset helps tech companies shut down. Our team of lawyers, accountants, and operations specialists take on the painful burden of shutting down your startup — allowing you to move on to what’s next with peace of mind. Whether dissolving or being acquired (asset-purchase sale, acqui-hired, etc.), our team has helped hundreds of companies get throughthis challenging process with ease. |  | Seed | Jan 02, 2024 |  |
| Saronic | Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform. | $55M | Series A | Oct 09, 2023 |  |
| Hone Health | Hone treats men's hormone imbalances and low testosterone with at-home lab testing, physician consultations, and medication |  | Series A | Sep 15, 2023 |  |
| Release | Release is a provider of financing services for finance and banking. |  | Seed | Aug 31, 2023 |  |
| Release | Release is a provider of financing services for finance and banking. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2023 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Contrarian Thinking Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/contrarian-thinking) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [ConversionWise](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conversionwise) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Karman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karman-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Karman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moving-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Contrarian Thinking Capital

VC Fund · Austin, United States

Contrarian Thinking is an online education platform that provides e-learning courses in finance, banking, and business acquisitions.

2 contacts available at Contrarian Thinking Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Piper | Head of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-piper |
| Codie Sanchez | Founder, Investor and Writer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/codie-sanchez |

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## FAQ

### What does Codie Sanchez invest in?

Codie Sanchez invests primarily in Apps, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Codie Sanchez's check size?

Codie Sanchez typically joins rounds of $1M–$7M at Seed and $7.7M–$70M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Codie Sanchez participates in.

### When did Codie Sanchez last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Codie Sanchez closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 28 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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