We were to nyc tech week and learned the city is ready to be an he hub – ryan

One of the Clearest Takeaways from New York’s Andreessen Horowitz-Sponsored Tech Week-A Decentralized Spray of Happy Hours with Panoramic Rooftop Views, Panels, and, This Year, Pickleball Matches-Was: Wen Its to Builds He To Consumer to Deep Tech, New York is No Longer Playing Catch Up to Attract Startup interest.

It might just be pulling party.

“People don’t come to new York to live in a Group House and Code All Night and Never See Anyone Else,” Said Julie Samuels, the President and Ceo of Tech: NYC, an organization that promotes founders and entreneurship in the City, at a panel on Monday Focused on AI.

Samules added that new York is the place to be for any founders eager to moving on Product and Head Count.

“New Yorkrs Hire,” She Said. “People want to live.

Getting into Tech Week Wasn’t Exactly Easy: Mary Events Were Full or Required Pre-Approval on Partyphul, The AndREESSEN-Backed Invite Platform of Choice.

Still, Business Insider Managed to Drop in a Few of the Week Activities, like a Bozy Happy Hour on the Rooftop of Ibm’s Manhattan Headquarters and Gen Z Founders hobnobbing at a cosmetics store, to see all the hype was about.

Ny is going all in on it

San Francisco Has Long Reied Supreme As Home to the Industry’s Hottest he startups: Big-Name llm Developers Like Openai, Anthropic, and Claude Are All Headquarted there, Along With Numerous Young Companies at the App and Infrastructure Layer.

One of the Biggest Themes at New York’s Tech Week Events, Howver, is that the Big Apple Isn’t Ready to WelCome an he startup here and there. The City’s Tech Community is Pushing to Become a Destination for All Things he.

“The Entire he stack is in new York – You have ecosystems, agents, apps,” Said Emily Fontaine, IBM’s Global Head of Venture Capital, During A Panel Discusions at the Company’s Madison Avenue Headquarers in the Week.

“When You Come to New York, you have the which spectrum to invest in,” She Said. “These are all Companies that are well cameloped, have a product, and are starting to get revenue.”

Fontaine added that in new York, “Compared to SF, you have Strong Founders who are actually driving Revenue who are excited to go to market with us.”

At a power walk to kick off the event, Most Founders Couldn’t Stop Talking About He. They Spanned industries and geographies, but one toy bi he was determining to make New York City the Country’s Startup Capital.

“IT’S THE SECOND BEST. I WANT TO MAKE IT THE BIGGEST STARTUP ECOSystem in the World,” Somya Gupta, Who Cofunded an AI Education Startup, Said. “SF, we’re coming for you!”

Founder Ben Said His Next Venture is an ai-Powered It Department, but that it was component is a marketing strategy, gioven how hot the technology is.

“It ‘s little bit of a branding Move,” he told bi. “I Mean, take me it department – iT”s really just an it department budilt from the grind up to fit into it World.”

Local and State Politicians are getting in on the push. At Axios panel on TuesdayNew York Governor Kathy Hochul Said She’s Key on Using he to train 100,000 states Employees in Offices like the DMV.

“I’m Not Looking to Eliminate Their Jobs,” She Said. “I see great potential here, and i leaned hard into this.”

Defense and Hardware Head East

Science, Defense, and Hardware-Oriented Startups, Known as Deep Tech Companies, Are a Red-Hot Sector on the West Coast, Though the New York Scene is Finally Heating Up.

One Standout was the rooftop party in soho hosted by Haus, A Deep Tech Public Relations and Communications Firm, and Stonegards Advisory, A Consultancy That Starts Breaking Into Defense. With Swank Cocktails and Cheese Boards Piled High, panelists doshed out how to win Key Government Contracts Early.

“The End Goal was ultimately to help People who are budilding the space underestand what it means to work with the Department of Defense, which is increesingly itelf up to startups and learning how to work with these. Founded Haus, Told Bi in an Interview. (Last Week, The Pentagon Launched a Program to Back College-Founded Startups that Serve Both Commercial and Government Customers.)

Deep Tech May Not Be As Big of a Thing in New York as it is in el segundo, calif., A nucleus of aerospace, defense, and energy companies, oberhaus admitted. But Newlab, A Warehouse and Startup Space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Thinks New York’s Software Chops and Engineering Talent Will Make the City Companies Rival the West Coast. Newlab is tricked out with offices and labs, which have AttraCted Early-Stage Deep Tech Startups.

A HUB FOR CONSUMER APPPS AND GEN Z FOUNDERS

Consumer startups – especially those budilt for or by geni z – are Also Having a moment in the City that never sleeps.

At one happy hour on wednesday, founders of consumer startups Mingled over drinks to the apps they’re building. Naturally, The Event (WHICH WAS COHOSted by Consumer Club, A Discord Community for Consumer Founders, and Superwall, A Paywall Tool for Apps) took at Coworking Space and Consumer Startup Hub Verci.

Some startups in the Crowd included bepresent, a Screen time control app that works out of the verci space. A16z’s Speedrun Start School Also Had A Presence there, with an investor and recent alumni, like waveophul, a social networking that was part of the Most Recent Speedrun Cohort. Lekondo, A Visual Search Engine for Fashion, Told US They Were Recently Accept Ino Speedrun’s UpComing Cohort.

That Same Night, We Also Stopped by Another Mixer for Gen Z Founders and Creators, Put Together by Natalie Neptune, Founder of Gennis, an Irl Business That Aims to Connect Brands with Gen Z, at SKINCARE BRAND KIEHL’S. Nathaneo Johnson, A Yale Student Who Cofunded the Buzzy Professional Networking Startup Series, was Among the gen z Founders in the Crowd.

“You’re Seeing an Increase of these AI-Powered Social Networks,” Said Neptune.

The ny vs. Sf Debate Rages on

Wherever we were, the techies were ready to socialize – spreading markedly different from the builder culture vibe in san francisco.

Loosned up by seeringly endless traits of Spicy Margaritas and Champagne at the Yet Another Rooftop Party, this one at IBM, The Crowd was Lively and Relaxed. Attendees, wearing button-downs rumpled from a day Work, didn’t just talk business: conversations evolved into debates on every Global Politics to the Misfortunes of Dating in New York City.

“Tech Week Has Proven nyc is a MainStay and a Competitive Market for Tech,” Molly O’SHEA, Founder of Venture-Focused Newsletter SourceryTold Bi in a Text. O’SHEA moderated two panels at Tech Week. “I’M SUR MANY VISITORS (LIKE ME) ARE CONTEMPLATING Moving here to get some of this Energy.”