a16z presents Tech Week 2026: bringing together the top founders, companies and funds around the globe.
Boston (NEW!) - May 26-31
New York - June 1-7
San Francisco - October 5-11
Los Angeles - October 12-18











Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
Fenwick is a leading law firm, purpose-built to guide visionary tech and life sciences companies and their investors through every stage of growth, from startups securing their first round of funding to leading publicly traded global enterprises. As one of Silicon Valley’s original legal practices, today we have over 600 lawyers, patent agents, engineers, and scientists serving clients all over the world. Visit www.fenwick.com to learn more.
HSBC Innovation Banking is a dedicated banking practice focused on the innovation economy. HSBC Innovation Banking provides expert knowledge and tailored banking and lending products to support a broad range of technology, life science and healthcare companies and their investors. Learn more
IBM offers AI solutions to help you build the future of your business today. These solutions include IBM watsonx™, the data and AI platform with a set of AI assistants, the deep scientific expertise of IBM Research® and the teams of expert consultants ready to help you scale responsible AI across the enterprise.
a16z speedrun invests up to $1M in global pre-seed and seed-stage startups across tech, entertainment, and AI. Learn more and apply at: speedrun.a16z.com
The new Adobe Acrobat Studio is the place where your best work comes together, uniting the productivity of Acrobat, the creative power of Adobe Express and the value of AI to empower you to work smarter and faster. Acrobat Studio includes PDF Spaces, which transforms collections of PDFs, web pages and other files into dynamic experiences using AI agents to derive insights from their files. Acrobat Studio also brings together Acrobat’s full suite of PDF tools for scanning, e-signing, editing and combining documents, specialized contract AI and new capabilities for summarizing scanned documents with AI.
Supercharged by Al, with Atlassian for Startups, work smarter every step of the way with tools designed to plan, track, and collaborate on work from MVP to IPO. The program provides up to 50 free seats to eligible startups for one year. Atlassian apps included are Jira, Confluence, Loom, Jira Product Discovery, Compass, Bitbucket and Rovo. Learn more here.
Drawing on 20 years of helping hundreds of thousands of startups succeed, AWS knows what it takes to turn bold ideas into reality. From MVP to IPO, we support founders at every stage through AWS Activate, offering cloud credits, technical support, mentorship, and a global community to help build the next generation of world-changing companies.
Deel is the only global-first people platform that allows companies to hire, manage, pay, and develop talent in 120+ countries, without compliance headaches or third-party dependencies. Discover how Deel makes global work simple at deel.com.
Fireworks AI is the global AI inference cloud and infrastructure platform that enables teams like Cursor, Uber, DoorDash, and Shopify to build, tune, and scale highly optimized generative AI applications. Fireworks provides deep support for hundreds of state-of-the-art open models in text, image, audio, embedding, and multi-modal formats globally. Visit https://fireworks.ai/ for more information.
Google for Startups is on a mission to support thriving startup communities around the world. We connect startups with the right people, products, and best practices to help your startup grow.

Intercom is the AI customer service company behind Fin, the highest performing AI agent for customer service. Founded in 2011, Intercom became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest in private software serving nearly 30,000 global businesses. Eligible startups can access Intercom + Fin for free for 1 year. Learn more here
PwC’s Emerging Company Solutions supports your growth and transition from early-stage funding to broader capital markets. Our expertise spans assurance, tax, deals, risk and enterprise transformation, aligning with your agenda and future goals. With tech-enabled solutions and global resources, we deliver high-quality outcomes faster.
Vercel’s AI Cloud provides the tools and self-driving infrastructure to build, scale, and secure intelligent applications. As the leading DX platform for frontend development and the team behind v0, Next.js, and the AI SDK, we help customers like OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, and Supreme build for the AI-native web — and ship at the speed of ideas.

HubSpot is the AI-powered GTM engine that helps startups scale faster on one connected customer platform. Through HubSpot for Startups, eligible Seed and Series A founders can get up to 90% off in year one—plus built-in AI powered by unified customer data across marketing, sales, service, and ops. Trusted by 35,000+ founders and 300+ unicorns.
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Mostest is the AI event planning platform helping companies plan better events, in less time, while unlocking new revenue. Learn more at joinmostest.com

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. Check at our website at scale.com
Move fast and scale seamlessly with the only platform built for startup speed and growth—no developer needed. Ready from day one, Zendesk works out of the box to unify teams, tools, and AI into a single, easy-to-use workspace so startups can deliver faster, more consistent support without juggling multiple systems. AI handles up to 80% of routine tickets, freeing a founder's team to focus on what matters most without increasing headcount. Built with enterprise-grade security and compliance, Zendesk scales with startups from seed to IPO to exit. Plus, Zendesk for Startups program offers six months free and exclusive partner discounts to extend runway and prove ROI without adding cost.
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An amazing evening celebrating all things New York Tech and the future of AI in finance. Big thanks to all who came out to our new office, extra thanks to those who find ways to help each other out post event! Thanks @a16z for your support #NYTechWeek @HSBCInnovation

Second night at Lumos House with a fireside chat with the co-founder of Venmo and http://Cal.com.Tech Week is a blast.

Definitely the first (and probably the last) time you'll see me on a standup comedy stage... Thank you to everyone who came out to Series Burn: The Final Roast, hosted by @useneotax last night! What an incredible way to close out @Techweek_!#LATechWeek

Great @HustleFundVC event with a great talk by @TaraViswanathan of @Rupa_Health for @a16z#SFTechWeek

#NYTechWeek off with a bang
Great to see the NYC startup ecosystem

Great kickoff to #nytechweek by @NYCMayorsOffice at the @TechNYC @usv party! Shoutout to @juliepsamuels @fredwilson @jaredhecht and all the wonderful hosts. Always a blast to hang with @wesleybarrow @kubeans @shaig @erica_wenger and so many others!

Kicking off SF Tech Week!!! Loved meeting many old friends and some new folks today in SOMA next to the a16z officesTomorrow, SPEEDRUN Demo Day and more. Very excitedExcited for the packed week of events

During SFTechWeek 2024, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on security considerations in the time of AI with industry experts from @okta@PatronusAI@GradientVC.

No better way to describe my first #SFTechweek experience except that it was everything and more than what I expected it to be

Day 1 at #SFTechWeek was incredible! Met so many inspiring founders—some already doing a few million ARR at Seed stage. I am actively investing in Seed round startups. Let's connect if you're around! Huge shoutout to @Techweek_ for making this happen!

An amazing evening celebrating all things New York Tech and the future of AI in finance. Big thanks to all who came out to our new office, extra thanks to those who find ways to help each other out post event! Thanks @a16z for your support #NYTechWeek @HSBCInnovation

Second night at Lumos House with a fireside chat with the co-founder of Venmo and http://Cal.com. Tech Week is a blast.

Definitely the first (and probably the last) time you'll see me on a standup comedy stage... Thank you to everyone who came out to Series Burn: The Final Roast, hosted by @useneotax last night! What an incredible way to close out @Techweek_!#LATechWeek

Great @HustleFundVC event with a great talk by @TaraViswanathan of @Rupa_Health for @a16z#SFTechWeek

#NYTechWeek off with a bang
Great to see the NYC startup ecosystem

Great kickoff to #nytechweek by @NYCMayorsOffice at the @TechNYC @usv party! Shoutout to @juliepsamuels @fredwilson @jaredhecht and all the wonderful hosts. Always a blast to hang with @wesleybarrow @kubeans @shaig @erica_wenger and so many others!

Kicking off SF Tech Week!!!Loved meeting many old friends and some new folks today in SOMA next to the a16z officesTomorrow, SPEEDRUN Demo Day and more. Very excitedExcited for the packed week of events

During SFTechWeek 2024, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on security considerations in the time of AI with industry experts from @okta@PatronusAI@GradientVC.

No better way to describe my first #SFTechweek experience except that it was everything and more than what I expected it to be

Day 1 at #SFTechWeek was incredible! Met so many inspiring founders—some already doing a few million ARR at Seed stage. I am actively investing in Seed round startups. Let's connect if you're around! Huge shoutout to @Techweek_ for making this happen!
