LA Tech Week 2024: Wednesday’s Event Lineup

LA Tech Week 2024: Wednesday’s Event Lineup
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Here’s what’s happening on Wednesday, October 16 for LA Tech Week 2024! Organized by location, this schedule makes it easy to find events that match your interests and goals for the day.


BEL AIR

5:00 PM

Andrew Yeung, Blindspot

8:00 PM

Andrew Yeung, Blindspot

BEVERLY HILLS

8:00 AM

Scrappy

3:00 PM

Gritty In Pink, Live Nation, Stella Foundation

BURBANK

6:00 PM

Fresh Brewed Tech, City of Burbank

CENTURY CITY

6:30 AM

City of Santa Monica

CULVER CITY

9:00 AM

Intersections LA

Pragma, AWS, Hathora, Mod.io, Unity

AWS Startups

11:00 AM

SOUNDCTRL, Venice Music, Fat Possum Records

12:00 PM

4D Fun, Scenez

  • Intersectional Innovation: DEI Considerations for GenAI in Media & Entertainment: See Details Here

AWS Startups, Diversity VC

2:30 PM

BNEF Forum Los Angeles (Invite Only)

BloombergNEF

5:00 PM

CEOSocial

Sandbox VR

Enterprise Ireland

5:30 PM

Techstars Space

Lightspark

DOWNTOWN

10:00 AM

USC Marshall Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

4:00 PM

Workps

6:00 PM

  • Patron VIP LA Consumer dinner (Invite Only)

Patron

8:00 PM

  • Climate Tech Cocktails x LATW Party (Invite Only)

Climate Tech Cocktails, Carbonauts, Hollywood Climate Summit, LA Climate Week, Saniset Fleet

ECHO PARK

10:00 AM

Duro

EL SEGUNDO

9:00 AM

Tech Breakfast Club

1:30 PM

  • Future of Industry Lunch + Talks ft. Doug Bernauer (Radiant Nuclear), John Coogan (Founders Fund) & Jason Dunn (Outpost Space): See Details Here

Parsec Institute, Draper University

HOLLYWOOD

9:15 AM

Deel, TeamTailor

1:00 PM

Undercurrent XR Studios

5:30 PM

Akin

6:00 PM

The Preserve, Google for Startups, Genera Venture Studio, Hacker Fund

7:30 PM

  • Adventure Capitalist Hollywood Hills Poker Night (Invite Only)

The Adventure Capitalists, MaC Ventures

IRWINDALE

10:00 AM

Launchpad Build

LONG BEACH

6:30 PM

Our Generation Cares

MALIBU

10:00 AM

Goldhirsh Foundation, LA2050, Creative Visions

MAR VISTA

5:30 PM

Toast, The SHE Mark

MARINA DEL REY

3:00 PM

USC, Information Sciences Institute

4:00 PM

Arc

Sunstone Management, USC Viterbi Startup Garage

5:00 PM

  • Elevated Spirits: SA&M Tech Week Exclusive Mixer (Invite Only)

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles

MID-CITY

6:00 PM

SomosVC, Vamos Ventures, BLCK VC, Plug In Ventures

PACIFIC PALISADES

8:00 AM

  • Breakfast (Invite Only)

Morpheus Ventures

PLAYA DEL REY

8:00 AM

AI LA

5:00 PM

  • Beyond the Noise: Bold Moves in Tech, VC, and Capital Raising: See Details Here

Tax Hack, Xero

PLAYA VISTA

4:00 PM

Artera, Ketchum

6:30 PM

HelloAdvisr

SANTA MONICA

8:30 AM

  • Brewing Connections: Coffee + Alfajores Networking Breakfast for Founders at Series A Stage: See Details Here

Braintly, Alt-Black

  • Ignite Growth: CMO Breakfast with Google (Invite Only)

Google Cloud

9:00 AM

Garden Labs

SPANVentures

9:30 AM

Silicon Valley Bank, Forum Ventures

10:00 AM

GFR Fund

Kukuyeva Consulting, TruStage Ventures

11:30 AM

Scrappy

12:00 PM

a16z Talent x Opportunity

  • J.P. Morgan Social Impact Event - Serving Meals to the Underserved: See Details Here

J.P. Morgan

2:00 PM

Squad.App

  • Tea & Tarot: A Mystical Meetup for Female Founders and Investors (Invite Only)

Silicon Valley Bank

3:00 PM

Squad.App

Demo Day LA, Startup Coil, LA Startups, Expert Dojo

3:30 PM

Blue Bear Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, SeaChange

4:00 PM

Silicon Valley Bank, Fenwick, Female Founder Collective, Poker Power

Squad.App

500 Global, Hubspot for Startups

  • Cultivating Your Exit Ecosystem: Founders, Investors, and M&A Professionals: See Details Here

Bernstein Private Wealth Management

5:00 PM

Back to Space, The Lunar Light: Discovery

5:30 PM

Squad.App

6:00 PM

1AM Gaming, Wilson Sonsini, Cushman Wakefield

SoCal CX

UP.Labs, UP.Partners

AI LA, Sunset VC, Jamalytics, TikTok

Tool

Tech Pitch Roast Comedy LLC

Internet Pipes

GoodFin, WeWork

  • Breaking Barriers: AI, STEM, and the Path to a More Inclusive Tech Industry: See Details Here

Farrukh Foundation, Women in Bio LA, Western Union Foundation, Watson Institute

Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt, Skylar Consulting

Women in Tech

6:30 PM

Rivonia Road Capital, Everywhere Ventures

Founders, Funders, & Fractionals

7:00 PM

Venteur

  • a16z Games Tech VIP Dinner (Invite Only)

a16z Games

7:30 PM

Los Angeles Fun Events

8:00 PM

Jester Labs, Hack Comedy

Fanhaven, The Collidescope Foundation

VENICE

8:00 AM

J.P. Morgan Startup Banking - LA

Admnt

8:30 AM

Perkins Coie

9:00 AM

Origin Ventures, Urban Innovation Fund, Progression Fund

10:00 AM

Shopline

11:00 AM

House Of Ventures, Wonder Ventures, Bonfire Ventures

12:00 PM

JP Morgan

1:30 PM

HSBC Innovation Banking

4:00 PM

Wroom Ai Corp

4:30 PM

BAM Ventures

5:00 PM

Amboy Street Ventures

Unicorner, Fidelity Private Shares, WeAreLATech

5:30 PM

TriNet, Everybody Ventures, Flex, Escalon

a16z, HSBC

6:00 PM

Cherub

Admnt


6:30 PM

Kiva AI

8:30 PM

Smoov, Stars Aligned

VIRTUAL

2:00 PM

Simple Data Solutions LLC

WEST ADAMS

6:00 PM

The Gathering Spot

WEST HOLLYWOOD

11:00 AM

  • Unlock Your Investor Potential: How Tech Workers Can Become LPs Using Vested Stock Units: See Details Here

Musa Capital, Rely Capital

4:00 PM

Hyphah

4:30 PM

Cree8, StoryTech

5:00 PM

Crater Ventures

Cherry Pick

  • Shaping the Future of Family Offices: Embracing Digital Transformation and Generative AI Investments: See Details Here

Amino Capital, Wells Fargo

6:30 PM

ElevenLabs

WESTSIDE

10:00 AM

Unshackled Ventures, Vamos Ventures, PledgeLA, Scale Health

at.inc/, Sidley

1:00 PM

Pitch4Capital, Kern AI

4:00 PM

Blaze.tech

5:30 PM

Talent Broker Consulting

6:00 PM

CreatorTech.ai, visd.ai

  • a16z Talent x Opportunity Fall Founders Celebration Dinner (Invite Only)

a16z

7:00 PM

Not-So-Daily Stand Up, Avenue Z, Just Go Grind

For updates or more event information, visit the official Tech Week calendar.

Enjoy LA Tech Week 2024!

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How to Navigate LA Tech Week 2026

🔦 Spotlight

Happy Friday, Los Angeles.

Next week, hundreds of tech events will take over the city, bringing founders, investors, engineers and creators together from October 12 through 18.

Calling LA Tech Week a conference does not quite capture the experience.

Presented by Andreessen Horowitz, Tech Week is a decentralized collection of panels, workshops, demonstrations and gatherings hosted independently by startups, venture firms and technology companies. There is no convention center or central stage. The programming stretches from Santa Monica and Venice to Culver City, Downtown, El Segundo and beyond.

In other words, the city is the venue.

AI remains the dominant theme for 2026, appearing across enterprise software, healthcare, finance, media and the creator economy. The schedule also reflects industries where Los Angeles has built a particular advantage, including aerospace, defense, robotics, advanced manufacturing, entertainment and consumer technology.

That range is what makes LA Tech Week distinct. It brings together the software companies shaping what comes next with the industries that already define Southern California.

The challenge is deciding where to show up.

Our advice: apply early and organize your schedule by neighborhood. Crossing from Santa Monica to Downtown may look manageable on a calendar created by someone who has never driven in Los Angeles.

To help you spend more time meeting people and less time crossing the city, we have organized each day’s events by location:

You can also browse the complete official LA Tech Week calendar.

Plan carefully, but do not fill every minute. The best conversation of the week may be the one that was never on your calendar.

More from this week’s LA startup and venture scene below.

🤝 Venture Deals

    LA Companies

    • El Segundo-based Gallatin AI raised a $50M Series A from new and existing investors including 8VC and Silent Ventures, bringing its total funding to $70M. The defense technology startup will expand its engineering team and advance Navigator, an AI platform that helps U.S. military units coordinate vehicle readiness, supplies, medical logistics and other mission-support operations. - learn more
    • Pasadena-based quantum computing startup Oratomic raised a $475M Series B at a $5.4B valuation, just three months after its Series A. ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, General Catalyst and Bezos Expeditions co-led the round, bringing Oratomic’s total funding to $775M as it works toward a commercially viable, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2030. - learn more
    • Torrance-based Fortastra raised a $30M Series A led by First In, with participation from Upfront Ventures, Space Capital, Rsquared, Side Door Ventures, ATX Ventures and existing investors. The company will use the capital to develop its next-generation maneuverable spacecraft, expand its engineering and operations teams and scale production of systems designed to protect critical assets in orbit. - learn more
    • Parallel Systems raised a $100M Series C led by AVP, with participation from Hillspire, Agility Global, Cobalt Capital, Anthos Capital, Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures and Collaborative Fund. Founded by former SpaceX engineers, the company will use the funding to scale production and commercial deployment of its autonomous, battery-electric Panther rail vehicles, which are designed to make short-haul freight more competitive with trucking. - learn more
    • Gaming studio Gardens Interactive secured more than $35M in a Series B led by Lightspeed, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Accel, Innovation Endeavors, Zenith Capital and other investors. The company will use the funding to launch and operate its debut social role-playing “strandbox” game, an evolving multiplayer world shaped by players’ actions and interactions. - learn more
    • Outer Spaces raised an $8M pre-seed round led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Unlock Venture Partners, Mucker Capital and Genius Ventures. The startup is developing outdoor furnishings with integrated solar panels and batteries, turning backyards into sources of clean energy and backup power. - learn more
    • Furientis raised a $25M seed round led by Benchmark at a reported $125M valuation, following a $5M pre-seed announced in May. The defense startup will use the capital to scale production of lower-cost missile interceptors designed to be assembled quickly with readily available components, with a long-term goal of producing 1,000 systems annually at each factory. - learn more
    • Hiyo raised a $20.8M Series B led by Constellation Brands, with returning investor Live Nation also participating. The nonalcoholic beverage company will use the funding to expand its adaptogen- and nootropic-infused social tonics across more than 13,000 retail locations while growing its presence at hospitality venues and live events. - learn more
    LA Venture Funds
    • Navitas Capital participated in Vesta’s $30M Series B, which was led by Conversion Capital and included backing from several major mortgage lenders and financial institutions. The company will use the funding to scale its AI agents across mortgage origination, automating tasks such as application reviews, underwriting decisions and closing-document checks. - learn more
    • MTech Capital led Nettle’s oversubscribed $4.8M seed round, with participation from Project A Ventures, Sure Valley Ventures, Portfolio Ventures and Ventures Together. The insurtech startup will use the funding to expand across the U.S. and Europe while growing its AI platform, which helps commercial insurers identify property risks, accelerate inspections and generate reports. - learn more
    • Bonfire Ventures doubled down on Santé by participating in the company’s $15M Series A, which was led by FINTOP and included other returning investors. The New York startup will use the funding to expand its AI-powered operating system for independent wine and liquor stores, which combines point-of-sale, e-commerce, payments, inventory and marketing tools in one platform. - learn more

    LA Exits

    • Winnow Solutions was acquired by Marina del Rey-based Spring Labs, with financial terms undisclosed. Winnow’s attorney-built library of more than 100,000 state and federal regulatory requirements will become a core part of SpringGRC, helping financial institutions connect changing laws directly to their compliance policies, controls and workflows. - learn more

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      LA Tech Week 2026: Sunday’s Event Lineup

      🔦 Spotlight

      LA Tech Week 2026 closes Sunday with one final day of events across Los Angeles. We have organized the remaining lineup by neighborhood so you can finish the week with a few last conversations before everyone returns to their regularly scheduled inboxes.

      ARTS DISTRICT

      12:00 PM

      CARSON

      12:00 PM

      CULVER CITY

      9:00 AM

      • Women in Cleantech & Sustainability Hike and Network: See Details Here
        Women in Cleantech & Sustainability

      6:00 PM

      • Founders pitch competition: See Details Here
        Biomorphix solutions, Nightingale regenerative

      HOLLYWOOD

      10:00 AM

      4:00 PM

      • AI International: Film, Music Video & Micro-Drama: See Details Here
        AI International Film Festivals

      MID CITY

      1:00 PM

      OTHER

      12:00 PM

      • ORGANIC LIFE LABS™ PRESENTS THE ALIGNMENT LAB: The Science of human performance: See Details Here
        The Blue Room Collective

      SANTA MONICA

      8:00 AM

      1:00 PM

      6:00 PM

      SOUTH LA

      2:00 PM

      • Future Builders : Family STEM Day: See Details Here
        Black L.A. Tech Week (Community Collective)

      VENICE

      10:00 AM

      12:00 PM

      • How to Raise Funds to Fund Any Business Using Digital Products.: See Details Here
        DN Events

      VIRTUAL

      5:00 PM

      WEST HOLLYWOOD

      3:00 PM

      Each session provides unique opportunities to gain insights, network, and explore various fields of tech innovation. For updates or more event information, visit the official Tech Week calendar.

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      LA Tech Week 2026: Saturday’s Event Lineup

      🔦 Spotlight

      LA Tech Week 2026 heads into the weekend Saturday with more opportunities to learn, meet fellow builders and explore what is being created across the region. Browse the day’s events by neighborhood below and find the gatherings worth leaving the house for.

      ARTS DISTRICT

      5:30 PM

      BEL AIR

      5:00 PM

      CULVER CITY

      10:00 AM

      1:00 PM

      4:00 PM

      DOWNTOWN

      11:00 AM

      2:00 PM

      • South Asians in Space, Physical AI: See Details Here
        american south asian network

      5:00 PM

      7:00 PM

      HOLLYWOOD

      8:00 PM

      INGLEWOOD

      10:00 PM

      LONG BEACH

      10:00 AM

      12:00 PM

      LOS FELIZ

      8:30 AM

      • Griffith Observatory Hike with Longevity Cities & Don't Die LA: See Details Here
        Longevity Cities

      MALIBU

      5:00 PM

      MARINA DEL RAY

      9:30 AM

      • The Brazen Capital Walk: Connecting Women, Capital & Opportunity: See Details Here
        BrazenEra

      6:00 PM

      • Build an AI workflow editor, natively in Angular: See Details Here
        Workflow Builder

      SANTA MONICA

      7:00 AM

      • Founders Running Club Run in Santa Monica: See Details Here
        Founders Running Club, MongoDb

      9:00 AM

      • MOLTEN - Spatial hackathon (ElevenLabs, AssemblyAI, Rokoko, Datafeel...): See Details Here
        Field Lab

      2:00 PM

      3:30 PM

      6:00 PM

      7:00 PM

      SOUTH LA

      7:00 PM

      THE VALLEY

      7:30 PM

      UCLA

      11:00 AM

      USC

      9:00 AM

      10:00 AM

      10:30 AM

      VENICE

      8:00 AM

      • Open Air Health Tech: See Details Here
        Open Air Health Tech, Bowshock, Govitamins App

      10:00 AM

      10:30 AM

      11:00 AM

      12:00 PM

      6:00 PM

      • Bots, Bytes & Bubbles Benefit: See Details Here
        Distinguished Minds Institute dba thinqueBytes®

      VIRTUAL

      9:00 AM

      • Ask a VP of Sales: Live GTM Office Hours for Early-Stage B2B Founders: See Details Here
        Kat Rucker Consulting Group

      11:00 AM

      WEST HOLLYWOOD

      11:00 AM

      • The 10x Engineer Showed Up. The 10x Organization Didn't.: See Details Here
        Workflow Builder, Tentaro

      3:00 PM

      WESTSIDE

      11:00 AM

      2:00 PM

      • Graphic Design & Digital Printing Meetup: See Details Here
        Big Frog Custom T-Shirts & More of West LA

      7:00 PM

      WESTWOOD

      12:00 PM

      Each session provides unique opportunities to gain insights, network, and explore various fields of tech innovation. For updates or more event information, visit the official Tech Week calendar.

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