Playbooks, city guides and field notes for founders, investors and operators. Written by the team that runs the rooms.
A founder's field guide to getting more out of the room than a free drink: before, during and after the event.
Five minutes, a PDF of about 8 slides, your goal in the first sentence and your ask in the last. The slide table with seconds per slide, how the night runs, what to cut for your goal, and the answers to what pitchers ask us most.
No 2027 dates are announced yet. We publish the verified 2023-2026 date table (first full week of June, three years running), the standout events of 2026, and the 143 NYC pitch nights that run between Tech Weeks.
SF Tech Week 2026 runs Oct 5-11 and the official calendar drops September 8. The five events already live, the new keynotes and sponsor tiers, how each anchor host gated entry in 2025, and the dated events you can book today.
LA Tech Week 2026 runs Oct 12-18 and the calendar goes live September 8. How the 1,000-event week works, the Westside-weighted geography, PitchLive.LA confirmed for Oct 13, and the 2025 anchors most likely to return.
Eight anchor conferences, dated where the organizers have dated them, eleven recurring series checked against their own calendars in August 2026, five pitch stages worth planning for, and the famous ones that quietly died. Written by the team that has run 47 pitch nights in London.
16 verified NYC pitch competitions, pitch nights and demo days: prize checks from $15K to $75K, plus $200K+ university purses and $220K accelerator checks, who can actually enter each one, and which application windows are open right now.
Twelve recurring series compared with verified fall dates, prices, and crowd sizes, from free 99-second pitch competitions to the Civic Hall meetup that sold out at ~364. Written by the team that has run 143 NYC pitch nights.
Fourteen Bay Area venues with map links: the spaces we've produced nights at (AngelList, Tesla Van Ness, AI Start Academy), Frontier Tower, AWS Builder Loft, SHACK15, The Battery and more, plus the checklist that decides the night.
Recurring pitch-night series, the discovery platforms, the institutional calendar, and the invite-only layer: where investor-attended events actually live, and how each opens.
FinovateFall, Advertising Week, AI Engineer NYC, the AI Summit, NRF 2027: every date re-checked with the organizers on September 3, plus the recurring nights that run between them.
The 2026 numbers behind the old name: the world's #2 ecosystem, $713B in value, more tech workers than the Bay Area for the first time, and how founders and angels actually plug in.
Our longest-running city, and some of our best-attended events of 2026. How Canada's biggest startup scene works, and the honest playbook for plugging in.
Demo days, mixers, hackathons, pitch nights: a working filter for the busiest startup calendar in the world, from people who run events for a living.
Through the doom loop discourse and the AI supercycle: what SF actually looks like from the floor of 75 events, and how to use the densest scene on earth.
The most storied startup town on earth is also the easiest to misread. Who's actually there, how the town works, and where newcomers plug in.
The fastest ramp of any city we run in, and the most globally mixed crowd we host. Who's there, how the capital works, and how newcomers plug in.
We asked 30 investors who attend our nights what makes them lean in, and what makes them check their phone.
Where early capital is actually moving this year, ranked by deal velocity and the density of angels who show up.
Eight hundred fifty nights of data on guest ratios, room size, and why the cheese plate matters more than the agenda.
A practical on-ramp for operators who want to angel invest: sourcing, sizing, and not embarrassing yourself.
The funds, the spaces, the WhatsApp groups and the one canal-side cafe where half the seed deals get talked through.
Anatomy of the investor email that gets answered, and the seven that get archived in under two seconds.
How three founders in our directory turned a single pitch night into a launch list, without being annoying.