Will Robbins

Will Robbins is a General Partner at Contrary, the San Francisco-based venture firm that built a national network of 100+ student venture partners across 50+ universities to source and back the most talented early-stage founders in the US and India. Joining in 2017 as an early team member, Robbins helped scale the firm from a $2M experiment into a fund managing hundreds of millions in AUM, with a portfolio spanning unicorns like Ramp, Rippling, Zepto, and Hallow. A University of Illinois CS alumnus who left Stanford to go all-in on venture, he writes prolifically on generalist investing, geopolitical tech themes, and the architecture of the modern startup ecosystem.