Tech Week

A few moments from our Cultural Capital Table dinners during Boston and New York Tech Week. Grateful to have gathered founders, operators, investors, academics, and cultural leaders for an evening of conversation, connection, and community. Thank you to everyone who joined us!

RT @tkexpress11: we at a16z @speedrun believe in building global companies from day 0. And helping the best builders from abroad connect wi…

@spacetime_db such a great event!! thanks for coming to Tech Week!

Honorable mentions! /1

Thanks to everyone who attended the first SpacetimeDB Launchpad hackathon in NYC! Congrats to our winners! Come see what they built! 1/

40,000 people. 1,500 events. One week. 🗽 NY Tech Week is one of the biggest moments in NYC's tech calendar. @dhaber, General Partner of @a16z, discusses the future of New York as a global tech hub. The full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=donzQW…

check out some of my NYTW thoughts on the @speedrun Substack this week! speedrun.substack.com/p/takeaways-fr…

NY @Techweek_ recap! What did I miss?

Take me back to last Monday at the incredible #NYTechWeen kickoff party hosted by @GammaApp @KristinFracchia - it was really the best time! @roseajohnson @Techweek_

That's wrap on Boston and New York Tech Weeks! We set new records across the board: 🏆 New York Tech Week → More than 5x growth since the first New York Tech Week launched four years ago → 1,500+ events (largest Tech Week in history) → ~50,000 attendees → 400+ events in a single day (a Tech Week record) 🏆 Boston Tech Week → 650+ events → 16,000+ attendees → An incredible turnout for our inaugural year Big shoutout to the team behind the success of these weeks!! @roseajohnson @ShrikalaKashyap @andrewchen @TracyMassaro_ @filgran_ @johnsonjanellea See you in October for SF Tech Week + LA Tech Week! And keep up with us in the meantime @Techweek_ ✨

can't believe Boston and NYTW are over! Someone said Tech Week is like a wedding: lots of build-up, reunions with people you haven't seen in a year, but over before you know it. Which feels accurate! 😅 We're switching gears to think about SF + LA Tech Week in the fall (October 5-18), but for now just celebrating how much fun these east coast tech weeks were. Until next year! (photo politely stolen from @the_futt)

it’s the final day of new york tech week!!! 🤠 we’re closing out the week with community gatherings, final demo days, and weekend hackathons. you can wrap up your week at the tavern community yacht party or check out the elevenlabs pop-up showcase if you haven't already. here’s what’s happening to close it out: featured tracks & final showcases • 11:00 AM - PopUp (ElevenLabs) • 2:00 PM - Yacht Party (Tavern Community) morning resets & community • 9:45 AM - Park Walk & Talk (NeuroNYC) • 11:00 AM - Summer Social (ASAN) • 11:00 AM - Recovery Walk (icon ny) • 12:30 PM - Picnic (Christians*inTech) • 1:00 PM - Networking (Clutch Talent) ai labs, hacks & builders • 8:30 AM - Health x AI Hack (Girls Into VC) • 9:30 AM - M-2 Hackathon (Individual) • 10:00 AM - Intern Hackathon (Hackathon Co.) • 10:00 AM - Digital Product Funding (DN) venture capital & pitch showcases • 8:30 AM - Women in Fintech (Women X) • 9:00 AM - AI Investment Summit (Sinbad) • 11:00 AM - Youngest Demo Day (TKS) • 11:30 AM - Doctor Investor Summit (investDoc) • 3:00 PM - Demo Day & Mixer (Venture Miner) • 6:00 PM - Demo Showcase (Draper House) full schedule at tech-week.com/newyork follow @techweek_ for live updates on New York Tech Week!

Good morning, New York! It’s the weekend of New York Tech Week 👏 Today we have Betaworks’ Multimodal Hackathon, and the Arcangel x J.P. Morgan Yacht Networking Event, alongside builder sessions from Rho and Lerer Hippeau. Here’s what’s happening today: Early morning & resets • 9:00 AM — 5K Run (Founders Running Club) • 9:00 AM — Reset Breakfast (Ginga) • 9:30 AM — Prayer Walk (QueensKnow) • 10:00 AM — Bio-Health Run (Club) • 10:30 AM — Basketball (Rho x Lerer Hippeau) AI labs & builder jams • 9:00 AM — Multimodal Hackathon (Betaworks) • 9:00 AM — Hackathon (Rebuild) • 9:00 AM — Climate AI Build (Mentor Me) • 9:00 AM — BioAgents Hackathon (Nucleate) • 10:00 AM — Prompt Hackathon (blAng) • 10:00 AM — Vibe Hackathon (Women) • 11:00 AM — Pop-Up (ElevenLabs) • 11:00 AM — AI Agents Panel (Ezio) VC, demos & pitch showcases • 11:00 AM — AI & Robotics Demo Day (Stonegardens) • 11:00 AM — Creator & VC Mixer (Velle) • 1:30 PM — HBCU Pitch Competition (Venture) • 3:00 PM — Health Tech Investment Forum (InvestDoc) • 6:00 PM — Yacht Networking (Arcangel x J.P. Morgan) • 7:00 PM — Investor Mixer (ConnectUs) Networking & social events • 12:00 PM — Fashionology Summit • 5:00 PM — Night Market (Asian Founders) • 5:30 PM — South Asian Collective (ASAN) • 7:00 PM — Closing Party (Madeline) • 8:00 PM — Launch Party (Cliqk)

Here's how New York Tech Week is going so far: 1st day: got interviewed on the streets 2nd day: went to agentic commerce event then a tech week boat party 3rd day: went to commerce capital summit by Google then fashion tech mixer on a rooftop

And that's a wrap on NY Tech Week for me, what an amazing week! If you're a tech founder this is a must attend experience. 45 scheduled events/meetings, hundreds of new connections/friends, amazing dinners with founders that are truly working the future of our world, private clubs, roof parties, yacht parties, playing basketball in MSG on the finals court and that's not even the half of it. Just absolutely such an amazing week, loved connecting with everyone!

By far the best even if NYC Tech Week 🗽🤍 MASSIVE shoutout to @linq + @a16z One of the strongest rooms I’ve been in all week. Community is everything and to curate such a talent dense room with such strong builders…incredible. The city is on fire right now. KNICKS IN FOUR 🔥 New York or nowhere.

A bittersweet last day in NYC for my first #NYTechWeek. So many great events and connections made. Can’t wait to be back soon!

K-Beauty 2.0 at #NYTechWeek: a full-day summit on where biotech and AI are taking the beauty industry next. Speakers from Enthera Bio, Curecode, and others walked through deep tech research, brand strategy, and the science showing up in next-gen skincare formulations.

Just wrapping a fantastic NY Tech Week, packed with startup and VC events. My 6 takeaways on AI, startups and relationships— and a prediction for each. 1. IRL IS KING The most valuable thing this week wasn't on a screen. The more our days run through feeds and inboxes, the more a room of real people becomes something you can't fake or scale. People are increasingly craving "real" moments– and this is a big opportunity for building community AND growing business. ➡️ Prediction: the more we automate, the more we'll seek each other out. The gatherings that bring people together for real become the moments worth protecting. 2. AI AGENTS ARE TRUE TEAMMATES Agents went from demo to default. A year ago, a party trick; this week— every vertical, every workflow, someone's shipping one. The shift I'm watching: from agents you operate to agents you delegate to. And as they take on long-horizon work, the bottleneck stops being capability. It's joint teamwork. ➡️ Prediction: winners won't have the smartest agent — they'll have figured out how to work with it as a trusted teammate. 3. PARTNERING UP Partnering up is 1+1=100. We hosted a Google DeepMind + Google for Startups + Google Cloud day for founders. 3,000 applied. By pooling across teams, we brought the best of Google into one room for the best startups. Alone, none of us could have pulled that off. ➡️ Prediction: the organizations that show up as one — rather than shipping their org chart to the world — will win. (One Google FTW!) 4. AI FOR REAL USE CASES The best founders I met aren't chasing the tech — they're bridging real business needs with the edge of what's now possible. Companies like InstaLILY AI, Simular and Rehearsals start with the problem, then pull emerging AI forward to close the gap. Not technology in search of a use case. The use case, pulling technology toward it. ➡️ Prediction: the breakout companies won't be the ones with the flashiest tech — they'll be the ones pointed at problems worth solving. 5. STORYTELLING STILL WINS When everyone's slides look great, taste becomes the last moat. Gamma hosted one of the best events of the week — Malcolm Gladwell, Mike Birbiglia, Bobbi Brown — pairing gorgeous visuals with live spoken-word storytelling. When great production gets effortless, the story is the diffentiator. ➡️ Prediction: as content becomes infinitely remixable, the premium on crafted story and delivery goes up. 6. RELATIONSHIPS WIN New connections expand you; old ones ground you. The magic is doing both. Tech Week throws you into rooms full of new people — and that energy is real. But some of the best moments I had were the stolen coffees and late dinners with founders, partners & friends I've loved for years. ➡️ Prediction: those who continue to expand in both breadth and depth of relationships will be the ones living the good life. Thanks to our partners at a16z. And… wild to see the Knicks fan party at MSG!! 🏀

City views from The Highlight Room as we close out #NYTechWeek. Special thanks to our hosts: @FireworksAI_HQ @ExaAILabs @turbopuffer @composio @intercom @TrustVanta

City views from The Highlight Room as we close out #NYTechWeek. Special thanks to our hosts: @FireworksAI_HQ @ExaAILabs @turbopuffer @composio @intercom @TrustVanta