SF Tech Week kicks off today!! We’ll be hosting a bunch of events over the next few days, at our new Jackson Square office and for our massive Demo Day with 1000+ investors.

Also sharing a couple fun stats/factoids 👇🏼

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SF TECH WEEK 2026
1,700+ events on the calendar, more than double (!!) in the past two years

1,266 hosts from 1,058 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI, Stripe, Google, Vercel, Databricks, ŌURA, Mistral, Perplexity, Cerebras, Lovable, Ramp, Brex, Mercury, AWS, Adobe, Reddit and more

100+ events hosted by portfolio companies of Speedrun, a16z

Fastest-growing themes:

• Hardware: tripled, the strongest and most consistent growth of any theme
• Cybersecurity: more than tripled from a small base, largely driven by AI security as companies deploy agents
• Infrastructure: more than doubled, as compute and the AI stack draw more builders
• Deep tech: doubled, with more science- and research-led startups on the calendar