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NY Fintech Week 2026
(Apr 27 - May 01)

NYC AI Agent Week 2026
(May 04 - May 08)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, San Francisco
Apr 29 (Wed) , 2026 @ 09:30 AM
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Build YC's Next Unicorn!
A founder showcase & hands-on Claude workshop for teams building the next breakout YC company.

If you're in the current YC orbit or preparing to apply to YC while building with AI agents, this is the kind of room you want to earn your way into.

On April 29, we're bringing together YC current batch companies alongside the next generation of founders who want to earn their place in rooms like this. Expect live demos, practical workflows, & founder-level conversations about how small teams are using agents to move with unfair speed.

Some teams will showcase how they're building with Claude Code. Others will walk through products & internal tools powered by Claude or the Claude Agent SDK. If your company is using Claude to compress research, coding, customer feedback, sales prep, or operational work, this is your chance to show the room what that looks like in practice. If you're earlier in the journey & aiming for YC, this is also a place to learn what strong founder velocity looks like up close, with real examples & real peers.

This event is also shaped by the latest YC Request for Startups. YC is explicitly pointing founders toward new opportunities in AI-native software, operational tooling, government tech, physical-world guidance systems, & model infrastructure. We want to create a room where those ideas stop being abstract & start becoming products, workflows, momentum, & future companies.

Workshop: Building AI Agents with the Claude Agent SDK - From Zero to Production
We'll run a hands-on founder workshop on how to build real AI agents with Claude, drawing on public knowledge & patterns from Boris Cherny, Alex Albert, & Thariq Shihipar.

You'll learn:

How the Claude Agent SDK works under the hood

How to build your first agent with tools & real-world inputs

How to use parallel sub-agents for research, synthesis, & execution

How to structure agents for startup workflows like market research, customer feedback triage, code review, & outbound prep

How to think about cost controls, prompting, verification, & production readiness

This is not a toy tutorial. The goal is to leave with a working agent you can adapt to your company immediately.

The room will be curated for people who are serious about building, but the energy will be collaborative: founders sharing tactics, builders helping builders, & strong teams making each other sharper.

Who Should Come
YC founders & current batch teams

Founders planning to apply to YC

Startup engineers & product builders working with Claude

Teams exploring agentic workflows for internal leverage or product differentiation

Founders who want to learn where the next unicorn opportunities are opening up & start building toward them now

Format
YC founder & company showcases

Claude workshop

Guided builder session

Office hours & networking with other startup teams

Come to see how strong founders are building with agents. Leave with a clearer sense of where YC wants new companies to emerge, a better understanding of what founder-quality execution looks like, & new relationships with the kind of ambitious, generous builders you want in your corner.
 
 
 
 
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