New York builds all year.
This is where it plays.

Silicon Alley Sports started in 2004, when eight digital media execs went looking for a reason to get out of the city and actually get to know each other. Nine holes, lunch after, and everyone agreed it was worth doing again. The next year, everyone brought a guest, and the field doubled. It happened again the year after that. Today our events bring over 250 builders and players together each year: founders, investors, and operators from across New York’s tech community.

The idea hasn’t changed. We play, everyone talks to everyone, and whatever’s left over goes to our impact partners. The same house rules apply to everyone, so nobody gets frozen out and nobody holds court. People tell us the day feels different from the usual industry event. That’s the point.

Along the way, we’ve been covered by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Insider, and Betabeat.

Before there was a New York tech scene, there was Silicon Alley: the stretch of Manhattan running from the Flatiron District down Broadway where the city’s earliest internet companies set up in the 1990s. The name was a wink at Silicon Valley, and for a while the neighborhood even had a sign to prove it, the famous “Welcome to Silicon Alley” billboard DoubleClick hung by the Flatiron.

The digital pioneers who built there are the ancestors of every founder in our field today. We took the name because that is who we are: the Alley, a couple of decades on, still up for a game.