New York's Biggest Underground Techno Promoter Is Shutting Down. Its Own Founders Did This to Each Other.

New York's underground scene is about to lose the promoter that built a chunk of its booking calendar, and it's not a club closing or a landlord dispute doing it. It's a lawsuit between the two men who started the company together.

Per Resident Advisor, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Thomas D. McLoskey has ordered Teksupport's parent entity, TCE Presents, to cease operations entirely, effective November 7, 2026. Non-essential staff have already been terminated. Company assets are frozen pending liquidation. For a promoter that has run well over a hundred shows a year across the city, from warehouse techno nights to its partnership with UK operator Broadwick Live on the 5,000-capacity Brooklyn Storehouse, that is not a slow wind-down. It's a hard stop with a date on it.

Why are Toma and Vitacco suing each other?

The shutdown order didn't come out of nowhere. It's the result of a bitter ownership dispute between Teksupport co-founders Rob Toma and Mike Vitacco, per RA. Toma alleges there was a conspiracy to transfer ownership of the company away from him. Vitacco countersued, alleging he was the one forced out, and forced out aggressively. Two founders, one company, and apparently no way left to run it together, so a judge is doing what they couldn't: ending it.

A New Jersey Superior Court judge ordered Teksupport's shutdown effective November 7, 2026, amid a legal war between its two co-founders over ownership.

What the court filings don't spell out, at least not yet in public reporting, is which side actually controlled what before this. That's the part the scene will be watching for as the liquidation plays out.

What happens to Teksupport's events and its people now?

The practical fallout is already underway. Non-essential staff are gone. The company's assets are frozen while liquidation proceeds, which means whatever Teksupport owns, from equipment to contracts to its stake in venues like Brooklyn Storehouse, gets sorted out by a court process, not by either founder's say-so. Everything tied to the brand stops on November 7.

The one thing the order does leave open: once the split is final, Toma and Vitacco can each incorporate separately. That means the bookings, the relationships with artists and agencies, the know-how that built Teksupport into a go-to New York promoter, don't necessarily die with the company. They just split into two smaller operations, assuming either founder has the capital and the will to rebuild from here.