Katia Ameri

Partner @a16z, founded @techweek_ Building @speedrun Alpha 🚀 | Previously @Stanford @PearVC & VC-backed founder

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

🛠️ STOP COLLECTING LOGOS AND START BUILDING. We just launched a16z speedrun Alpha. We’re giving technical students and recent grads a $20K grant (equity-free!) + up to $250K investment to start building pre-idea, pre-team, pre-entity. We can also match you with a fast-growing portco.

There’s a structural shift in how startups are being built. The leverage per builder has gone up significantly. A single strong engineer can now ship what used to require a team.

But the path into startups hasn’t kept up. You usually get funded or recruited only after you’ve collected enough logos.

Meanwhile, some of the best early engineers are already shipping code that people use, and that signal matters more than internships or logos.

Enter, Alpha. We believe that if you start earlier → momentum compounds.

Alpha has two tracks:

Found a Startup: Dreaming about an idea but haven’t formed an entity, raised capital, or built a team yet? Get a $20K grant upfront to build, with up to $250K in investment available.

Join a Startup: Join a fast-growing portfolio company as a full-time engineer. Spend your time in the codebase building the core product shoulder to shoulder with founders and early teams.

The Fellowship Experience: Starting in June, you’ll kick off with a retreat, then spend 8 weeks in rooms with some of the smartest engineers, founders and VCs in the ecosystem. Most importantly, you’ll form life-long relationships with peers also building the next generation of startups. ☺️

Companies formed by Alpha fellows automatically qualify for a guaranteed final-stage interview for our flagship program, a16z speedrun.

Nominate + tag anyone you think would be good below 👇

Apply now: https://t.co/78qNZhiZLx

Huge thank you to @andrewchen, @justmazer, the entire @speedrun team and Equal Opportunity Ventures for helping bring this to life 🚀

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

@catrosemcmillan @Techweek_ 👀

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

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_ ✨

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

@TracyMassaro_ @Techweek_ @GammaApp @KristinFracchia @roseajohnson Gorgeous skyline!

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

After 2+ weeks of nonstop East Coast travel, it has never felt so good to land at LAX. Home at last ❤️

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

@yuqih 🤩

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

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 https://t.co/f9USm0YYwK

follow @techweek_ for live updates on New York Tech Week!

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

@sriramk Excited to see what you do next, Sriram!

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

Full schedule: https://t.co/ASV3bbNzDU

Follow @techweek_ for live updates throughout New York Tech Week.

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

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)

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

full schedule at https://t.co/h2Fb1PLG2s

follow @techweek_ for live updates on New York Tech Week!

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

hey, new york! We made it to Friday 👯

today the focus turns to developer build tracks, technical showcases, and friday celebrations. highlights include the a16z speedrun ai faire, intuit’s ai/ml hackathon, the fireworks ai closing party, and technical tracks with ibm, aws, and google.

here’s what’s happening on day 5:

a16z & friends
• 11:00 AM - AI Faire (a16z speedrun)

early morning & resets
• 7:30 AM - Morning Run (Wildwood)
• 7:30 AM - Pickleball Tournament (Optemization)
• 8:00 AM - Central Park Walk (Fish)

ai labs & tech giants
• 9:00 AM - Women in AI Breakfast (instalily)
• 9:00 AM - AWS AI Hackathon (AWS)
• 10:00 AM - Open for Ops (Greenhouse)
• 11:00 AM - AI & Workforce Model (IBM)
• 11:00 AM - PopUp (ElevenLabs)
• 1:00 PM - AI Agents for Science (GRAIL)
• 3:00 PM - Gemini Build & Tea (GDG NYC)
• 4:00 PM - AI/ML Hackathon (Intuit)
• 6:00 PM - AI Salon (You dot com)
• 6:00 PM - Closing Party (Fireworks AI)

venture capital & pitch showcases
• 8:30 AM - Brand in Venture (Astronaut)
• 9:30 AM - Pitch the Product (C10 Labs)
• 3:00 PM - Seed Investor Showcase (Presentation)
• 5:00 PM - Ventures Happy Hour (Morgan Stanley)
• 5:30 PM - Creator Social (Wells Fargo)
• 6:30 PM - Investor Connect (ASAN)
• 8:00 PM - Launch Party (165 Global)

deep tech, engineering & frontier
• 10:00 AM - Sprint Build Live (XLAI)
• 12:00 PM - SaaS Dead Panel (Elysian)
• 4:00 PM - Finance Agents Demo (JPM)
• 5:00 PM - Developer Night (Sentry)
• 6:00 PM - Deploying Robotics (NY Robotics)

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

@thatguybg go brett!!!!!

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

Partiful is one of the (very few!) breakout B2C products of the past decade

After six years, they just launched monetization (ticketing) to their millions of users

CEO @shreyamurthy’s learnings for consumer founders 👇

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

@meientc @popupbagels @chrislake 🤩

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

full schedule at https://t.co/h2Fb1PLG2s

follow @techweek_ for live updates on New York Tech Week!

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

gm, new york!

it’s day 4 of new york tech week 👯

today's lineup highlights agentic systems, developer ecosystems, and growth infrastructure. featured sessions include the openai builder lounge, scale ai’s human in the loop forum, and panels with aws, snowflake, and nextview, alongside tracks from a16z, pwc, ibm, deel, and fenwick.

here’s what’s happening on day 4:

a16z & friends
• 8:00 AM - Group Ride (a16z)
• 9:30 AM - Startup Culture Brunch (a16z)
• 4:00 PM - Founders Guide (Deel x a16z)
• 5:00 PM - Media Soirée (a16z)

early morning & resets
• 7:30 AM - Founders Mixer (Somarae)
• 8:30 AM - Boxing & Breakfast (Rho)
• 8:30 AM - API Park Stroll (Vonage)
• 9:00 AM - AI GTM Coffee Walk (AIMAR)

ai labs & tech giants
• 9:00 AM - AWS AI Hackathon (AWS)
• 9:00 AM - Snowflake Café (Snowflake)
• 9:30 AM - Copilot Hackathon (Microsoft)
• 11:00 AM - PopUp (ElevenLabs)
• 11:00 AM - Founder Lunch Club (Stripe)
• 5:00 PM - Acquired Founder (Atlassian)
• 1:00 PM - Agent Swarms (Weights & Biases)
• 2:00 PM - Builder Lounge (OpenAI)
• 6:00 PM - Live from NY (ElevenLabs)
• 6:00 PM - Dev Happy Hour (Mailchimp)
• 7:00 PM - Data Room Happy Hour (Snowflake)

venture capital & pitch showcases
• 8:00 AM - IPO Forum (PwC)
• 10:00 AM - AI Executive Roundtable (PwC)
• 1:00 PM - State of AI (Untapped)
• 3:00 PM - AI Showcase (ERA)
• 4:00 PM - Built in NYC: AI (Fenwick)
• 5:00 PM - Pitch Night (Founder Social Club)
• 6:00 PM - VC Happy Hour (Alpha Partners)
• 6:00 PM - 100 Women in AI (Flybridge)
• 6:00 PM - Female Founders Sips (NEA)
• 6:00 PM - ADHD & Startup Life (M13)
• 6:00 PM - Video AI Panel (a16z)

deep tech, defense & industry
• 8:30 AM - Physical AI (Blackhorn)
• 11:00 AM - Software Eng Panel (IBM)
• 11:30 AM - AI Physical Build (NextView)
• 12:00 PM - Operators Panel (NY Robotics)
• 1:00 PM - Digital Sovereignty (IBM)
• 2:30 PM - Sports Tech Challenge (IBM)
• 3:30 PM - AI Cruise Happy Hour (AGI House)
• 4:15 PM - Tech & Talent Reception (IBM)
• 6:00 PM - Robotics Showcase (NY Robotics)
• 6:00 PM - Music Industry Networking (PwC)

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

@meientc @partiful @shreyamurthy So meta

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

@TracyMassaro_ @Techweek_ Lovely event!

[Tracy Massaro @TracyMassaro_]

Huge thanks to our Tech Week sponsors for joining us today for lunch and helping make @Techweek_ what it is!

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@FenwickWest
@HSBCInnovation
@AWSstartups
@Atlassian
@Adobe
@CloudflareDev
@deel
@FireworksAI_HQ
@GoogleStartups
@hyperagentapp
@fin_ai
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@HubSpotStartups
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And to the Tech Week team for cohosting with me @roseajohnson , @KatiaAmeri , @ShrikalaKashyap , @johnsonjanellea , @filgran_

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

full schedule at https://t.co/h2Fb1PLG2s

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

gm 🌞 it’s day 3 of new york tech week 🎊

today is about enterprise tech and core ai. key events include the anthropic founder salon, scale ai’s human in the loop live, and masterclasses from google deepmind and antigravity, alongside tracks from a16z, hubspot, coreweave, and sequoia.

here’s what’s happening on day 3:

a16z & friends
• 5:00 PM - Founder Fireside (Partiful x a16z)
• 6:00 PM - Cash Event (a16z x Moment)
• 6:30 PM - Investor Dinner (a16z speedrun)

early morning & resets
• 7:00 AM - Charity Run (RemoFirst)
• 8:00 AM - CFO Breakfast (Concourse x a16z)
• 8:30 AM - Claude AI Workflows (Webflow)
• 8:30 AM - Founders Breakfast (Vonage)
• 9:00 AM - Pickleball Party (Hubspot)

ai labs & tech giants
• 9:00 AM - DeepMind Update (Google)
• 10:00 AM - Fireside Chat (ElevenLabs)
• 10:00 AM - Capital to Customers (Zendesk)
• 12:00 PM - Builder's Table (Adobe)
• 1:00 PM - Ice Cream Social (CoreWeave)
• 1:30 PM - Founder Salon (Anthropic)
• 2:00 PM - Agentic Build (Google)
• 3:00 PM - PopUp: Founders (ElevenLabs)
• 5:30 PM - Women in AI Networking (Salesforce)
• 6:00 PM - Human in Loop LIVE (Scale AI)
• 6:00 PM - RevOps Build (HubSpot)

venture capital & pitch showcases
• 12:00 PM - Founder & VC Lunch (Menlo)
• 5:00 PM - Leader Connect (Sequoia)
• 5:00 PM - Trivia Night (PwC)
• 5:00 PM - Happy Hour (Deel x Escalon)
• 5:30 PM - After Hours Mixer (212 VC)
• 6:00 PM - Founders Night (Ramp x 8VC)
• 6:00 PM - Food Crawl (Flybridge)

deep tech, defense & industry
• 9:00 AM - AI in Higher Ed (IBM)
• 3:30 PM - Robots & Factories (NY Robotics)
• 4:00 PM - Fintech Panel (Intuit)
• 5:00 PM - Deep Tech Mixer (Newlab)
• 5:30 PM - Physical AI Check (NVIDIA)
• 6:00 PM - AI & Modern Warfare (Bereisheet)
• 6:00 PM - Embedded Payments (JPMorgan)

follow @techweek_ for live updates on New York Tech Week!