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Ben Huffman · Founder × Creative Researcher × Angel Investor

Hey, I’m Ben.

I’m a creative builder, entrepreneur, and angel investor.

01 / Currently

I am building Contra and Contra Labs to help creativity meet opportunity. Contra supports millions of users globally earning hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

Independent work infrastructureHuman data + RL infrastructure for creative AI

02 / Research + data

Research

01TASTE: Preference Dataset for Graphic Design2026 · Paper · arXiv 02The Human Creativity Benchmark2026 · Paper · arXiv 03Contra Labs ResearchOngoing · Research 04Ad Creative Design DatasetDataset · Hugging Face 85 downloads · 35 rows05Descript Video-Editing TrajectoriesDataset · Hugging Face 286 downloads · 803 rows06Premiere Video-Editing TrajectoriesDataset · Hugging Face 686 downloads · 234 rows07Video Detail AnnotationDataset · Hugging Face 387 downloads · 15 rows08Human Creativity BenchmarkDataset · Hugging Face 265 downloads · 8,012 rows09Photoshop Creative Design TrajectoriesDataset · Hugging Face 230 downloads · 294 rows10Gemini Creative Campaign TrajectoriesDataset · Hugging Face 183 downloads · 266 rows11Firefly Creative Campaign TrajectoriesDataset · Hugging Face 125 downloads · 137 rows

03 / Angel portfolio

Investments

CompanyStageYear
Spline Seed+2024
Paper Seed2025
MagicPath Seed2026
Flora Seed2025
Wajo Seed2026
Aerial IntelligenceSeed2026
Kled Seed2026
Instant Seed2026
Varg.ai Seed2026
Constellation AIPre-seed2026
Acctual Seed2025

04 / Selected work

Projects

01The Human Creativity BenchmarkJun 2026
02Introducing Contra LabsMar 2026
03Introducing Contra PaymentsFeb 2026
04Introducing Creative ArenaSep 2025
05Introducing Indy AIAug 2025
06Contra Reaches 1M UsersMay 2025

05 / Get in touch

Contact

X x.com/contrabenLinkedIn linkedin.com/in/ben-huffman-b7b6a8102Contra contra.com/ben