Eric Tarczynski
Founder & Managing Partner @ Contrary
San Francisco, United States
Eric Tarczynski is a seed investor at Contrary in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. Eric Tarczynski is the Founder and Managing Partner of Contrary.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Eric Tarczynski invests in
Stages Eric Tarczynski invests in
Countries Eric Tarczynski invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (17%)
- FinTech 4 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (11%)
- Financial Services 3 (9%)
- Information Technology 3 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (43%)
- Series A 6 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (14%)
- Series B 4 (11%)
- Series C 3 (9%)
Country
- United States 22 (63%)
- India 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Base Power provides home battery systems, retail electricity services, and energy management solutions for residential customers. The company installs battery storage systems that provide backup power during outages and help manage electricity usage. Its platform combines distributed battery storage with electricity services to support home energymanagement and grid operations. | $1B / Series C / Oct 08, 2025 | ||
| Leland is a coaching marketplace for education and career goals. The marketplace provides coaches to assist people in taking standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, GMAT, or GRE, as well as breaking into private equity, product management, investment banking, and other tech fields. It navigates career transitions and receives specializedmentorship to build skills in your chosen field. Leland charges transaction fees depending on how much a client pays a coach. | $12M / Series A / Nov 13, 2024 | ||
| DualEntry develops AI-based accounting software for handling transactions for mid-market enterprises. The product includes a unified general ledger, automation of repetitive workflows, multi-entity and multi-currency support, and integrations with many existing financial and operations-adjacent tools. DualEntry also offers what it calls “NextDayMigration,” which enables moving historical financial data from legacy accounting or ERP systems into its platform within ~24 hours, reducing implementation friction. | $10M / Seed / May 01, 2024 | ||
| Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $150M / Series D / Apr 17, 2024 | ||
| Axle is an open platform for consumer-permissioned insurance data. With Axle, companies can instantly verify insurance and monitor ongoing coverage, helping them create a frictionless experience for their customers and reduce operational risk through better-informed decisions. | $4M / Seed / Apr 10, 2023 | ||
| OneSchema automates CSV & PDF workflows with AI. Enterprise operations, IT, and data engineering teams use OneSchema to replace brittle scripts and save countless hours of time manually cleaning messy files.Features like our schema builder prevent data quality issues and guarantee bad data never enters your business systems. AI-poweredtransforms in our no-code workflow builder are flexible and fast to configure on any file, empowering the entire operations team to work like data engineers.Companies like Toast, Ramp, Hippocratic AI, and Huron Consulting Group rely on OneSchema to run their most critical file integrations, with thousands of files processed every hour. | $6.3M / Seed / Nov 15, 2022 | ||
| Maev is the first true wellness company for dogs. Wellness can be complicated, so we're starting with the basics. Daily bowls, bars and broth that help fill the gaps in your city dog's diet and an NYC community that has your back. | $10M / Series A / Sep 28, 2022 | ||
| Uprise is building wealth management for all - bringing the tools and the tricks of the 1% to everyone :). The company was founded by Chris Goodmacher and Jessica Chen Riolfi. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Candor does startup recruiting 10x faster than traditional firms. We place culture-aligned engineers and operators in venture-backed startups. | $5M / Seed / May 23, 2022 | ||
| Leland is a coaching marketplace for education and career goals. The marketplace provides coaches to assist people in taking standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, GMAT, or GRE, as well as breaking into private equity, product management, investment banking, and other tech fields. It navigates career transitions and receives specializedmentorship to build skills in your chosen field. Leland charges transaction fees depending on how much a client pays a coach. | $4M / Seed / May 11, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Contrary
Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.
Contrary Contacts
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Christopher Wallace
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Varun Shenoy
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Brian Fakhoury
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Eric Tarczynski
Founder & Managing Partner
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Kyle Harrison
General Partner
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What does Eric Tarczynski invest in?
Eric Tarczynski invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Eric Tarczynski last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Eric Tarczynski closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 35 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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