# Kyle Harrison

> Kyle Harrison is a Series B investor at Contrary backing SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Contrary](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/contrary-capital)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-harrison-9274b278/

Kyle Harrison is a General Partner at Contrary

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| EdTech | 1 | 8% |
| Mobile | 1 | 8% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 23% |
| Series C | 3 | 23% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Series E | 2 | 15% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Valinor Discovery | Valinor Discovery uses machine learning to simulate drug performance and support data-driven drug development decisions. | $13M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| DualEntry | 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 |  |
| Airplane | A platform for engineers to build internal tools. | $32M | Series B | Sep 29, 2022 |  |
| Patch | Patch focuses on building infrastructure for a climate-positive economy, starting with an API for carbon removal. The company makes carbon removal as simple as writing a few lines of code. Build sustainable products with ease and put your climate goals on autopilot. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $55M | Series B | Sep 13, 2022 |  |
| Pave | Pave is a market-leading compensation management platform for the modern enterprise.Our powerful suite of real-time compensation data and workflow software—infused with AI insights—allows teams to take control of their investment in people, make pay decisions with confidence, and earn trust from leaders and employees alike.Companies runningtheir compensation programs on Pave include Atlassian, Block, Coinbase, CSL Behring, Databricks, Dropbox, Electronic Arts, Instacart, McDonald’s, Okta, OpenAI, Perplexity, Ramp, Rivian, Snowflake, SoFi, Stripe, Unity, Zoom, and thousands more.To learn more, visit: www.pave.com | $100M | Series C | Jun 28, 2022 |  |
| Pave | Pave is a market-leading compensation management platform for the modern enterprise.Our powerful suite of real-time compensation data and workflow software—infused with AI insights—allows teams to take control of their investment in people, make pay decisions with confidence, and earn trust from leaders and employees alike.Companies runningtheir compensation programs on Pave include Atlassian, Block, Coinbase, CSL Behring, Databricks, Dropbox, Electronic Arts, Instacart, McDonald’s, Okta, OpenAI, Perplexity, Ramp, Rivian, Snowflake, SoFi, Stripe, Unity, Zoom, and thousands more.To learn more, visit: www.pave.com | $100M | Series C | Jun 28, 2022 |  |
| Synthesis School | Synthesis School is an online enrichment program for ages 8 to 14 with a mission to nurture future innovators. The company was founded in 2020 by Josh Dahn and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States. | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| Persona | Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, which brings trust to online interactions and helps them with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailoredflows that cover any use case. It handles complex collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information to stay focused on building products. | $150M | Series C | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Persona | Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, which brings trust to online interactions and helps them with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailoredflows that cover any use case. It handles complex collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information to stay focused on building products. | $50M | Series B | May 04, 2021 |  |
| Attentive | Attentive is the leader in conversational commerce, reinventing business to consumer communication. The SMS-first software platform helps everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises strengthen relationships with their consumers in a new way. | $470M | Series E | Mar 24, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [D1 Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d1-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Contrary

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.

5 contacts available at Contrary.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Wallace | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samuel-christopher-wallace |
| Varun Shenoy | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/varun-shenoy |
| Brian Fakhoury | Talent Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-fakhoury |
| Eric Tarczynski | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-tarczynski |
| Kyle Harrison | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyle-harrison |

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## FAQ

### What does Kyle Harrison invest in?

Kyle Harrison invests primarily in SaaS, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Kyle Harrison last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kyle Harrison closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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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