Tanya Soman

VC at Southpaw Capital. Prev. investor @500Startups @Babson. NY, LA, SF.

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

If you want to host an event at LA Tech Week or SF Tech Week, today is the last day to submit to make it onto the official calendar 👇

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

@OYO4U Still waiting for assistance and still receiving new bookings. Try to imagine booking somewhere to stay and arriving to a burned down building. Can we move faster?

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

@oyorooms Our property **burned down** and you keep renting rooms. We have tried cancelling for months. Customers are showing up to check in. PLEASE REPLY.

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

@oyorooms Still waiting to be connected and I have since received a new booking

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

@iWinfred @oyorooms Fingers crossed! I feel bad for the customers showing up to nothing 😱

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

@OYO4U I have! Waiting to get connected to a human

[Federico Simionato @fedesimio]

Today we officially completed the acquisition of Eventbrite for ~$500M! 😍

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

🎉Tech Week event submissions are now OPEN🎉

We’re also offering Tech Week grants of up to $5k for events designed for current students or recent grads, with a focus on hackathons, engineering-led talks, open-source meetups, etc.

It’s never been easier to start building. More people, from more places, are shipping products earlier, and we’re seeing that show up directly in the teams we’re backing at the very earliest stages. This year, we’re especially excited to draw out more young engineers and technical builders at Tech Week.

If you’re interested in a student-focused grant, apply here:
👉 https://t.co/vBGTPaAygo

2026 Tech Week dates:
• Boston: May 26-31
• New York: June 1-7
• San Francisco: Oct 5-11
• Los Angeles: Oct 12-18

I always tell people the best way to do @Techweek_ is to host something and bring people to you. The whole week is made up of different events, so you can host whatever makes sense for who you’re trying to meet. It doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive. You can organize a coffee meetup, a group hike, etc. Once you submit, we’ll review your event and add it to the official calendar. and once it’s on the calendar, you’ll get a lot more visibility and leads than you would otherwise.

If you want to host, submit your event here:
👉 https://t.co/6DIxY3C7D3

[Katia Ameri @KatiaAmeri]

🚀 I’M HIRING AT SPEEDRUN 🚀

Over the last few years, I’ve been focused on building Tech Week at a16z, launching it from scratch and scaling it to 100K+ annual attendees across the major tech hubs in the U.S. It’s become a core gathering for the early-stage tech ecosystem, and a career highlight.

Now, I’m excited to build the next thing and I’m looking for my right hand.

We’re launching a brand-new program at Speedrun centered around exceptional early-career engineers, and I’m looking for someone to help design and run it end to end from day one. You’ll work closely with me,
@justmazer, @andrewchen and the broader Speedrun team to build the programming, community, and systems that support top technical talent and help them plug directly into the startup ecosystem.

This is a very hands-on role. You’ll be:
- Running high-signal, in-person programming and events
- Shaping the community and onboarding experience
- Building the systems that keep everything running smoothly as we scale
- Craft our go-to-market and university ambassador strategy to make sure we’re reaching the right people

It's a full-time role, based in SF

If building community, hosting events, and building systems from scratch on a small, mighty team sounds fun, I want to talk to you!

And if someone comes to mind who’d be a great fit, please tag them below and share 🙏

You can apply to the JD below

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Blockbuster opened this day in 1985.

At its peak, it had 9,000 stores.

Today, it has one.

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

@nikitabier Please don't sell out my favorite model.

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

I reverse engineered the San Francisco parking ticket system. I can see every ticket seconds after it's written

So I made a website. Find My Friends? AVOID THE PARKING COPS.

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

@J__Cub This is awesome, love the accessibility 💪🏽

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

Superpower launches a $199 membership. It’s time 🫡

[jacob peters @J__Cub]

BREAKING:

Superpower is now available for only $199

almost every American spends a few hundred $ per year on things like:

– Netflix
– Spotify
– Amazon Prime
– Dating or meditation apps
– Annual credit card fees

and never thinks twice.

but there has never been an accessibly priced,

canonical consumer membership for the most important thing of all:

YOUR HEALTH.

it’s our goal to build the most valuable, lowest price health membership in America.

and now it’s never been simpler to get started:

– full body health testing (100+ labs annually)

– one home for all of your health records, unified in one place

– a personal health LLM to chat with and make sense of it all

– plus a human medical team + marketplace for anything you need, like prescriptions, supplements, tests, or health answers – all at 20% cheaper than elsewhere

all for only $199.

it pays for itself. it’s taking control of your health.

“But Jacob — I have a bit more budget to spend on my health, this feels too cheap”

feedback we get often.

however it’s our belief the greatest consumer companies are built with low floors ⬇️ and high ceilings ⬆️;

accessible enough to welcome anyone in, yet expansive enough to grow with those who want to invest more deeply.

(eg. almost every American has an Amazon account, half of which pay ~$200/yr for prime, and 30% of which account for 70% of sales. our top superpower member has already spent over $30k on their health within the ecosystem)

this moment has been a long time coming

and couldn’t be more thrilled to unveil it to the world alongside such an incredible team.

ps – we’ve also just launched the mobile app, DM if you’d like the test flight!

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

Forbes over 30 list, missing some favorites on this list this year. https://t.co/85WCF8HkEW

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

@Katie_Roof Congrats, Katie!! They are lucky to have you

[Tanya Soman @TanyaSoman]

@Tesla <5 mins to get insurance- amazing! The catch: Spending days of your life trying to get any service. Disconnected after 1 hour, now 2 hours on hold & counting. Even Spectrum has a call back feature.

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

I don't like his policies but Zohran's videos are so good that every other politician's videos look terrible by comparison