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How do I sponsor Tech Week?
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Tech Week sponsorship is about visibility, credibility, and access to a founder-heavy audience. On the public site, Tech Week highlights platinum and gold sponsors plus event partners, and the 2026 sponsor area includes companies like Andreessen Horowitz, Fenwick, HSBC Innovation Banking, IBM, a16z speedrun, Adobe Acrobat Studio, and Mostest. That tells you the model: brands can show up through sponsor placements, partner visibility, and high-signal programming tied to the broader Tech Week calendar.
What Tech Week sponsorship includes
Tech Week is a decentralized technology conference presented by a16z. It brings founders, funds, companies, startups, VCs, and communities together through hundreds of events across host cities.
Sponsorship appears to be part of that broader ecosystem visibility. In practice, that means your brand is associated with:
- Founder and technology ecosystem programming
- Public sponsor and partner placement
- A city-based event calendar that draws builders and operators together
The site does not publish a self-serve sponsorship application in the knowledge base we reviewed. What it does confirm is that Tech Week actively surfaces sponsor and partner brands on the public site.
Sponsor Tech Week vs. host an event
If your goal is pure brand visibility, sponsorship is the lane to explore.
If your goal is to create a specific moment for founders, investors, or customers, Tech Week also lets companies, startups, VCs, and communities host individual events under the Tech Week umbrella. Those event submissions are reviewed by the Tech Week team, and approved hosts follow up after that review.
Popular event formats include:
- Panels
- Happy hours
- Hackathons
- Lunches
- Experiential events
That means many brands can do both:
- Sponsor for broad visibility.
- Host an event for direct engagement.
| Goal | Best fit | What Tech Week offers |
|---|---|---|
| Brand awareness | Sponsorship | Public sponsor and partner visibility |
| Founder engagement | Event hosting | Access to the Tech Week calendar and audience |
| Thought leadership | Sponsored programming | High-signal events like masterclasses and live conversations |
Where Tech Week runs in 2026
Tech Week 2026 includes four city editions:
- Boston: May 26–31
- New York: June 1–7
- San Francisco: October 5–11
- Los Angeles: October 12–18
The site notes that Tech Week will debut in Boston in 2026 and return to New York for the fourth year.
If you want to sponsor Tech Week in a specific market, this city structure matters. The audience assembles around local host-run events, so your sponsorship can be aligned to a city edition, a partner activation, or an event series that fits your brand.
Also note: submissions are open for SF and LA Tech Weeks on the 2026 homepage.
What strong Tech Week activations look like
The public site shows the kind of programming that fits Tech Week well: practical, founder-relevant, and high-signal.
Two examples stand out:
- Deel and a16z Masterclass: “A founder’s guide to building the world’s fastest growing company,” featuring Shuo Wang and Anish Acharya
- IBM Masters of Scale Live: featuring IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and Jeff Berman of WaitWhat / Masters of Scale
These examples show a pattern. The best Tech Week activations are not generic brand moments. They are useful, specific, and built for the audience in the room.
If you’re thinking about how to sponsor Tech Week, ask:
- What will founders learn here?
- Why does this belong in a Tech Week city?
- How does this help the community, not just the brand?
The fastest path to getting involved
Here’s the simplest way to move forward:
- Check the public sponsor and partner surfaces on tech-week.com.
- Decide whether you want sponsorship, hosting, or both.
- If you want to run an event, submit a proposal through the Tech Week host page.
- Choose a city and format that matches your audience and goals.
- Build something useful for founders, operators, and investors.
Tech Week is built around distributed, host-run programming. Brands that win here show up with something real: insight, access, education, or community value.
If that sounds like your strategy, sponsor Tech Week with purpose. Then activate with a program people actually want to attend.
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