About
Aditya Sood studied AI at Stanford before leaving to found Contrario. He previously led NLP work at NASA, conducted AI research in defense technology, and was a researcher at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and an Anthropic lab.
Founder at ContrarioYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Aditya went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Contrario's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Aditya can intro founders to Contrario's investors below.
Contrario's investors · 3
Co-founders at Contrario
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Arya MarwahaFounder & CEO
Experience
- Contrario (YC W25)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Juniper NetworksML Researcher II2024
- Juniper NetworksML Researcher2023 — 2024
- Stanford University Department of Computer ScienceCURIS Fellow: SAIL x Anthropic2024Stanford, California, United States
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNLP Researcher2023
- United States Department of DefenseSoftware Developer2022Dayton, Ohio, United States
- Research Science Institute (RSI)MIT Research Science Institute2021Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT LLCipher2020Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Aditya Sood?
- Aditya Sood studied AI at Stanford before leaving to found Contrario. He previously led NLP work at NASA, conducted AI research in defense technology, and was a researcher at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and an Anthropic lab.
- Where does Aditya Sood work?
- Aditya Sood is Founder of Contrario.
- What companies did Aditya Sood found?
- Aditya Sood founded Contrario.
- Where did Aditya Sood go to school?
- Aditya Sood studied at Stanford University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Y Combinator; LeapYear.
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