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Research Radio

Hosted by Contrary · business · EN

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About this Podcast:

Diving deep on the world's most exciting private tech companies. Join Kyle Harrison, General Partner at Contrary, in conversation with the founders, leaders and thinkers building the future of tech.

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Verified email

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30%

Guest openness

Selective

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Questions about Research Radio

What is Research Radio about?

Diving deep on the world's most exciting private tech companies. Join Kyle Harrison, General Partner at Contrary, in conversation with the founders, leaders and thinkers building the future of tech.

Who hosts Research Radio?

Research Radio is hosted by Contrary. The show has published 20 episodes to date.

What has Research Radio covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Epirus: High Power Energy Weapons" (24 February 2025, 53 minutes), "Base Power: The Modern Power Company" (21 November 2024, 46 minutes), and "Lumafield: Building Industrial X-Ray Vision" (1 November 2024, 50 minutes).

How often does Research Radio publish?

Research Radio publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 44 minutes across 20 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Research Radio?

Booking probability for Research Radio is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Research Radio requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Research Radio's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Research Radio?

The strongest fits for Research Radio are IT Services & Software Development and Cloud, Data & Web Hosting. Research Radio has a business audience.

About the host

Contrary hosts Research Radio, a business podcast with 20 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Feb 24, 202553 min

    Drone swarms in warfare are becoming more common. Epirus is building high power energy weapons as a response. In a word? What they've created is force fields. In this episode, we sat down with Epirus CEO Andy Lowery...

  • Nov 21, 202446 min

    Base Power aims to become the “modern power company of the electric era” by offering its customers a home energy service powered by a network of batteries. In this episode, we sat down with Base Power co-founders Zach...

  • Nov 1, 202450 min

    Lumafield provides low-cost industrial scanners. Its goal is to build the world's best database of manufactured objects to help "take humans out of the loop" and enable fully autonomous manufacturing. In this episode...

  • Aug 22, 20241h 6m

    America's industrial base could be on the verge of collapse. Hadrian is setting out to build an automated solution to unlocking the manufacturing capacity in the US. We sat down with CEO and Founder of Hadrian, Chris...

  • Jun 10, 202454 min

    JumpCloud is offering companies a cloud-native solution to manage their identity directory without having to “sell their soul”, so to speak, by becoming a wall-to-wall Microsoft stack. We sat down with CTO and...

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  • Apr 18, 202443 min

    Stytch * is building a developer platform for companies to implement frictionless authentication methods. The company’s APIs and SDKs streamline user onboarding and bolster retention by eliminating passwords and...

  • Mar 19, 202441 min

    Highnote is a full-stack card issuance platform with the intention of owning the entire stack, rather than sitting on top of another gateway or middle layer. So how are companies thinking about using a tool like...

  • Feb 27, 202439 min

    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...

  • Jan 18, 202440 min

    Sardine is a company that helps companies prevent fraud. 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...

  • Dec 20, 202330 min

    MongoDB develops and provides a popular NoSQL database program which is designed for managing and storing large sets of varied data. MongoDB Ventures is the investment arm of MongoDB, focusing on supporting early-stage...

  • Dec 7, 202341 min

    Lithic , founded in 2014 as Privacy.com, provides an API platform for building card issuing and processing solutions. It simplifies the process of card issuing, authorization, and transaction processing for startups and...

  • Nov 21, 202342 min

    Lucid makes visual productivity and collaboration tools like Lucidchart and Lucidspark, helping teams brainstorm, and build diagrams and data visualizations. It has become a titan of visual collaboration, serving 60...

  • Nov 9, 202345 min

    Founded in 2018, Persona is an automated identity verification platform which uses machine learning, computer vision, and algorithmic checks to help businesses confirm their users and customers are who they say they...

  • Oct 30, 202345 min

    With the rise of ChatGPT and other LLM-powered chatbots, there has been a gold rush to get conversational AI into enterprise. Moveworks , founded in 2016, is an enterprise AI co-pilot that helps employees find...

  • Oct 12, 202335 min

    Stack Overflow has been one of the key parts of the software development universe since it was founded in 2008, and it has developed from a question-and-answer platform to a crucial resource. Whether they're debugging...

  • Sep 28, 202340 min

    The chemicals industry is one of the world's largest, touching virtually every manufactured good from the phone in your pocket to the car you drive and the food you eat. But despite its size, the industry remains...

  • Sep 14, 202344 min

    Common Room provides unified intelligence across a company's various online communities – from public squares like X/Twitter, to private spaces like Discord and Slack. It helps software companies get actionable insights...

  • Aug 31, 202339 min

    Hex is a collaborative data workspace that allows both technical and non-technical users to analyze, collaborate on, and share their data work. It wants to do for data what Figma did for design. Co-founder and CEO Barry...

  • Aug 17, 202341 min

    As anyone who has tried finding a spot on a busy weekend will tell you: parking can be a nightmare. It's also big business – and it might be an even bigger business than you imagined. AirGarage, founded in 2017, is a...

  • Aug 3, 202340 min

    It's no secret that the biggest hype in tech is around AI and large language models (LLMs). Cohere ⁠, founded in 2019, builds general purpose language models and provides access to them through an API. Its goal is to...

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