Bawo ni 🚀 Yorkseeders! #124

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Today’s Hello is in Yoruba 🇳🇬 “Bawo ni” (How are you / Hello) ! What’s cooking this week within the Yorkseed radar? Are you going to Lisbon for Web Summit? Let’s do something together! [email protected]

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Yorkseed Passport Series: Venture After Hours | Singapore Edition

We’re excited to debut our first Yorkseed event in Singapore! 🥂 Where visionaries meet beyond the noise. Venture After Hours is a private dinner gathering founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders for real conversation and meaningful connection. No panels, no pitches—just thoughtful dialogue shared around one table. Hosted by the Yorkseed Singapore Team & Friends, led by Aga Manhao.

Limited seat available, get on the list now!

We’re coming back to Lisbon in full force for another year of the Yorkseed Passport Series. We’re currently planning a few exciting events for Web Summit week. If you’d like to get involved or collaborate, please reach out — we’d love to connect. 💫

Yorkseed Passport Series: Deals at Dusk | GITEX Dubai Edition

Our first Yorkseed event in Dubai was one for the books. Hello to the 100+ folks who registered! Deals at Dusk brought together founders, investors, and ecosystem builders from around the world, all gathering in the World Trade Center District as the city lit up for GITEX.

Hosted by Yorkseeder Stanley Marchon, Chief Strategist at HedgieBee Inc, the evening flowed from introductions to deep conversations about venture growth, blockchain, and what it really takes to build across borders.

There was something special about this night. The mix of global energy, shared ambition, and Dubai’s golden hour backdrop created an atmosphere that felt both inspiring and familiar. It was a reminder that the best deals often begin with genuine connection. Stay tune! More to come!

💫 What is the Yorkseed Passport Series?

From NYC to Sydney to Paris, Yorkseed’s Passport Series brings founders and investors together at the moments that matter. Real connections. Trusted deal flow. High-signal community.

Sponsorship isn’t just branding, it’s access: curated intros, global reach, and venture-grade rooms.

On deck: GITEX (Oct) and Web Summit Lisbon (Nov). Join us:
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🚀 Yorkseed is growing 🌍
We’re looking for LEADERS to lead across our global regions — U.S., Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Asia, and Australia/Oceania.

If you’re passionate about connecting founders, investors, and ecosystem partners through high-impact events and initiatives, this is your chance to shape your local venture community. 👉 Apply here

📍 Hong Kong | 🗓 January 26–27, 2026

Yorkseed is proud to return to the Asian Financial Forum (AFF) in partnership with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) as official community partner and we'll be leading a Yorkseed Delegation! This delegation offers founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders a rare opportunity to connect with top-tier investors, policymakers, and innovators globally.

As part of the Yorkseed Delegation, attendees will receive: 
✨Complimentary AFF delegate pass 
✨Onsite access to the full 2-day program
✨Access to exhibition areas
✨Keynote Luncheons (Meal entitlements are subject to prior reservation)
✨AFF Deal-Making platform (connect directly with investors and partners)
✨Optional inclusion in a shared Yorkseed Delegation booth (cost shared among interested delegates)
✨ More to come! We are still on our early phase of planning! → SIGN UP

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October 13th - October 20th, 2025

NYC hub

Create & Chill NYC — A Creative Park Hang for Builders, Founders, Artists & Tech Community - 10/19 

NYC Coffee Club | Early-Stage B2B Tech Founders & Funders - 10/24

Pitch and Run Monday - 10/20 

x402 NYC meetup - 10/21 

Lower Hudson Valley New York Community Mixer with Rayo Capital, Stand with Crypto and friends - 10/21 

The AI Capacity Crunch: A Builder’s Playbook for Latency, Lock-in & Cost - 10/21

Hiring in the AI Age - 10/21 

XDC T³ Mixer: Tokenization, Trade & Treasury - 10/21 

Pitch & Run - Prospect Park - 10/21 

0 → 1 Founder Dinner (Hosted by Andrew & Friends) - 10/21 

VC Best Practices: State of AI Investing - 10/21 

Yorkseed NYC Capital Connection - 10/22 

Pitch & Run - Williamsburg - 10/22 

On-Fire-side Chat - "Forbes 30 Under 30 Unpacked: How To Make It Without Jail Time!" - 10/22 

UGLY TALK: BUILDING EFFECTIVE PERSONAL BRAND FOR FOUNDERS - 10/22 

2025 Urban Future Summit - 10/23 

Pitch and Run 730am Early Bird Battery Park - 10/23

October Brewing Connections - Colombian Coffee Tasting Meetup - 10/23

112th NY Hardware Meetup @ Viam – Robotic Arms to the Rescue! - 10/23 

Female Founders and Funders Monthly Networking - 10/23 

Pitch and Run Friday - The Original PNR - 10/24 

NYC Coffee Club | Early-Stage B2B Tech Founders & Funders - 10/24 

Pitch & Climb - Boulderfest - 10/25 

Healthtech Social by Scalpels & Spreadsheets - 10/27 

Meditation & Problem Solving: How Stillness Sparks Solutions - 10/27 

The Yorkseed Bridge: East, West & Beyond - 10/28

We're managing the New York City Tech Events Calendar and welcome all tech and venture-related event submissions! 🚀🎉

Bay Area hub

Real Time Video AI Summit - 10/20 

[FutureX]Consumer: What is still defensible in the age of AI? - 10/20 

Smarter Search, Smarter AI: RAG, Rerankers & Real-World Impact - 10/20

Open Source & AI - 10/20 

Official Next.js Conf Opening Hackathon by Clerk w/ CodeTV - 10/21 

AI Open Source Happy Hour @ Starlite room - 10/21 

Manus: Building the Hands for AI - 10/21 

TEDAI San Francisco 2025 - 10/21 

PyTorch Afters: The future of AI infra for RL + large-scale inference - 10/21 

Unsloth × Mistral × NVIDIA Night - 10/21 

AI infra & open-source models #3 - 10/21

Claude Code Anonymous - SF Edition - 10/21 

Climate Talks: Unpacking Power and Policy in the Fight for Climate Action - 10/21 

Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco - 10/22 

Pitch & Run San Francisco - 10/22 

Enterprise Ready Conf - 10/22 

📊 AI BENCHMARK CLUB - 10/22 

AWS AI Hack Day Micro Conference - 10/22 

Cracking Enterprise GTM w/ 12 Scrappy Founders - 10/22 

Production AI with Open-Source Metaflow by Outerbounds, Netflix, and Nebius - 10/22

AGNTCY Summit | Multi-agent systems at scale - 10/22 

Trivia & Community: NVIDIA × DeepInfra x vLLM - 10/22

AI Founder, Researcher, & Builder Happy Hour - 10/22 

Production AI with Open-Source Metaflow by Outerbounds, Netflix, and Nebius - 10/22

Cafe Compute {Spooky Edition} - 10/22 

Dynamo & Dine: High-performance LLM Inference with Baseten and NVIDIA Dynamo - 10/23 

🧠 The AI Collective Tri-Valley | Nightmare on LLM Street: AI Deep Learning & Security - 10/23 

Treats & Clips - AI Video Agents Behind the Scene - 10/23 

PyTorch Dendritic Optimization Hackathon - 10/23 

Applied Agents Hackaton - 10/24 

Dirt-Biking w/ 12 Scrappy Founders - 10/24

Founders Running Club @ TechCrunch Disrupt Week - 10/25

Dumb Things 2.0 AI Hackathon with Replicate, DigitalOcean, and OpenAI - 10/25 

Founder Friends SF #Disrupt2025 - 10/27 

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Austin / San Antonio hub 

 Creative Co-Working hosted by REFIND × BeReworn - 10/21 

VNTR Investor Breakfast Austin - 10/21 

Austin: Fintech Coffee - 10/22

Soundcheck Live: AI Panel + Launch Party - 10/22 

Your Startup Sucks🔥🔥🔥 Austin Tech Week - 10/23 

White Collar Fight Night - Austin - 10/24

Chicago hub

Money Moves: The Future of Investment Management - 10/21 

Chicago Angel Investor Community Gathering - 10/21 

🧠 The AI Collective Chicago | Make.com - Let's Build and Automate - 10/22 

Hyde Park Venture Partners Founder Breakfast Club ☕ - 10/22 

Washington D.C. hub

Founder Friends DC Tech Week - 10/20 

The AI Upskilling Lab: Inaugural Cohort Project Showcase - 10/21

Lead Gen Lab - 10/23 

Venture + Startup Gala - 10/23 

Wayback to the Future: Celebrating the Open Web - 10/27 

Boston

They call it HCI for a Reason: finding the balance between humans and AI in UX - 10/21 

Founders Basketball Boston (October 2025) - 10/21 

LangChain Launch Week: Boston - 10/22

AI x Bio Hackathon | Evolved Boston 2025 - 10/24 

Pitching Boston’s Future: A Climatetech Showcase for Underrepresented Founders - 10/27 

Investor Special Event: Hot Takes on Building an AI Unicorn - 10/27 

We're managing the Washington DC Tech Events Calendar and welcome all tech and venture-related event submissions! 🚀🎉

Los Angeles hub

ShiftSC Tech4Good Conference - 10/20 

Startup Cafe: Growth through Partnerships - 10/22 

Miami hub

Women in Miami Tech October Happy Hour - 10/21 

Speed > Strategy: The New Rules of Fintech - 10/22 

Build Different: Using AI to Build Real Products - 10/22 

The AI Collective ~ Community Build Cross Florida - 10/23 

Amsterdam hubr 

Cannes hub

Paris hub

Yorkseed Paris Fall Venture Evening - 10/22 

Ledger OP3N 2025 - 10/23 

The Future of AI, Manufacturing, and Aerospace - 10/23 

Exclusive synbio future panel & networking cocktail - 10/27 

BioBuilders' Drink by Singular - 10/27 

Dublin hub

London hub

Women's AI Breakfast - Raising Capital in AI - 10/20 

Honest Hire: a tech talent meetup - 10/20 

Women's AI Breakfast - Raising Capital in AI - 10/20 

CryptoMondays London Presents: The Welcome Party - 10/20 

London Web3 Week - Hosted by Zebu Live - 10/20 

Sushi & Spreadsheets with xWaves and Novabook - 10/20 

CryptoMondays London Presents: The Welcome Party - 10/20 

Raising VC for Consumer Brands - 10/21 

All Party Parliamentary Group for Digital Markets & Digital Money - Open Session: "Are Stablecoins Important to the UK" - 10/21 

London After Hours: Presented by BONK, Jito, OVHcloud & Solana - 10/21 

AI Hardware at Scale @ IDEALondon - 10/21 

CafeGM by Spacecoin & GSR | Day1 - 10/22 

Antler's UK Showcase - 10/22

Ayn Rand Lecture 2025: Lance Forman - 10/22

Fin x Vanta: Building Trustworthy AI Tools - 10/23 

EF x UK - 10/23 

Trick or Deal: A Yorkseed Night - 10/29

Zurich hub

Startup Pitch & Networking in Zurich - 10/21 

Colosseum x Optiver Afternoon Hackathon - 10/22

Cycling HACK 2025 Zürich Kick-Off - 10/22

Lovable x Cognizant: Conversations that Build Software | AI Collective Zurich - 10/27 

Milan hub
Data Fest 2025 - 10/21

Lisbon hub

 Paving the Way to COP30 - 10/20

Inside the VC Mind - 10/21 

Entrepreneuship Awards 2025 - 10/23 

FoodHack Lisbon: Fundraising stories – How to raise in the current environment - 10/23

🥂 Yorkseed Cocktails & Connections | Web Summit Pre-Game - 11/9

The Yorkseed Soirée: Web Summit Lisbon 2025 Kickoff Party - 11/10

Munich hub

Berlin hub

Base Batches Hack Meetup Berlin - 10/21 

The TabPFN Hackathon (1k€ in Prizes!) - 10/21 

✨Design Brunch & Coworking - 10/22 

Deep Tech Night - 10/23 

AI Agent Night hosted by Dynatrace x LangChain - 10/23 

Model Brawls I HackNight w/ Lyceum - 10/23 

Helsinki hub

Startup-Käsikirjä launch with Jyri Engeström and Timo Ahopelto - 10/20

Robotics & AI Hackathon - 10/24  

Montreal hub

Made In Montreal: From Bagels to Billion-Dollar Ideas - 10/20 

A New Economy in Preventative Health | Une Nouvelle Économie En Santé Préventive - 10/20 

Medical Robotics: Advancing Surgery, Rehabilitation and Patient Care - 10/22 

Fintech Social - Montréal - 10/22 

Tech Walk and Talk | OHMTL Edition - 10/23

Le Collectif des Fondatrices présenté par le Fonds Excelles (Thrive Venture Fund) , TechTO et Roynat, Banque Scotia - 10/23

Montréal Hardware Meetup #3 @Hurleys | Hard Tech = Hard Money ? - 10/23 

Tacos & Trends: Futures 2030 – Marketing, Media & AI – Montreal - 10/23 

Startup Open House Montreal | Portes Ouvertes Startup Montréal 2025 - 10/24 

Toronto hub

Immigrants in Tech Summit 2025 at Royal Ontario Museum - 10/20 

Toronto Coffee Club | B2B Tech Founders, Funders & Operators - 10/22 

Reframe Anxiety: Fitness + Financial Freedom - 10/22 

São Paulo | Rio hub

Made In Rio: The Academic Powerhouse Behind Brazil's AI Revolution - 10/22 

Buenos Aires hub

Founders Running Club :: Buenos Aires - 10/25

Mexico City hub

Moffin & 'Migos: Breakfast at Amazon - 10/20 

HYROX - HYBRID CLASS @CARPE - 10/20

Startups Festival - México - 10/20 

Founders & Investors Speed Dating with Pygma & Google - 10/20 

Startup Grind x Google: Pitch and Run - 10/20 

FemTech Mexico - Cumbre 2025 @ Mexico TechWeek - 10/20 

Kickoff Oficial Mexico Tech Week 2025 - 10/20 

Product Latam Summit '25 - Impulsado por Capital One - 10/21 

Mexico Early Stage Top 100 Celebration. Learn from founders building world class startups. Sponsored by Perkins Coie - 10/21 

Hacking High Performance 🚀 - 10/21 

From Boring to Brilliant: Storytelling Secrets By Chris Roe Public Speaking - 10/22

Founder Confessions: Historias que nunca leerás en prensa - 10/22 

VC Open House - 10/22 

Notion’s First Block Live – From Zero to Latin America’s Fintech Rocketship: Inside Clara’s Unicorn Journey - 10/23 

Post-Mortem Night by Buk - 10/23 

CDMX Paytech Meetup ⚡️ - 10/24 

Kavak x OpenAI: Scaling in the Age of Intelligence - 10/24 

Dubai hub

Women in AI x Spicebox AI Meetup - 10/25

VC X FOUNDER - 10/27 

Venture Capital Community Demo Day (Dubai 2025) - 10/27 

Tel Aviv hub

Services are the next software: Rethinking the AI future - 10/20 

Scaling Consumer Brands: A Live Panel - 10/20 

The Future of Physical AI - 10/21 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Tel Aviv - 10/21 

AI First: Shaping Our Future-Lo-Techni Meetup - 10/23

React IL October Meetup - Powered by Fiverr- 10/26

Hong Kong hub

Session 3: Drafting Patents — From Idea to Billion-Dollar Asset - 10/21 

Yorkseed Delegation to Financial Forum: Sign Up Here

Singapore hub

 If You Build It They (Won’t) Come: Why Strategic Storytelling Is Crucial For Startups - FSO Speaker Series - 10/21 

AI Governance in Singapore - 10/21 

🇸🇬 What I Learned from Building 5 Tech Startups in 25 Years - 10/22

The One About Digital Twins - 10/22 

Last One Standing! - Founders and Connectors Networking Night - 10/22 

Vibe Coding Jam: AI Coding Meetup @ AWS Office - 10/22 

Venture After Hours by Yorkseed (Singapore Edition) - 10/31

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia hub

Malaysia | AI-Builder Co-working - 10/25 

Sydney hub

SYDNEY SCALEUP SUMMIT 2025 - 10/20 

Make With Notion: Sydney Official Community Afterparty - 10/21

Build Club Product Launch Party + BBQ with AWS 🎉 - 10/22 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Sydney- 10/24

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Our WhatsApp Global hubs are where I will be strictly sharing special events that are happening around the local city related to Founders + Investors + Tech Executives focus only.

Our WhatsApp Conference Groups are for conferences goers to share invites, arrange meetups and set meetings specifically for Founders + Investors + Tech Executives focus only. We also provide a spreadsheet of non-badge holder master side event list for all conference goers! We believe everyone should have access to all the top notch side events without paying a premium price!

Looking for volunteers to run some of these hubs. Paris, New York City, Austin | San Antonio, Miami, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Bay Area, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Sydney, Dublin, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Helsinki, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, GIFT City, São Paulo | Rio, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Montreal, Dubai, Malaysia, Zurich, Milan,Tel Aviv, International Hub (All Other Cities). Some people already interested in some of them, though I do need more! If you are from a city that is not on the list and are interested in creating a local hub, please reach out to me!

What does a local hub volunteer / co-organizer do?

• Run a Yorkseed^TM event once a month. It must be Founders + Investors + Tech Executives focus. I am open to all sort of events from happy hours to panels, or even demo nights. To make it easier, it can be a co-branded event with another company.

• Collect mailing list, Yorkseed^TM database building from all the attendees. Partnership, investor or collaboration opportunities for YS.

• Feed me any local events you know will be coming up in the local city, and I will include them the newsletter.

The perks of being a local hub volunteer? You are exposed to high-level individuals, and infinite opportunities will come your way!

Sounds exciting for you? Write me at  [email protected] / Jessica Sophia Wong

❤️ Join our database 👉 https://forms.gle/C8uQChh41JknpxPYA

I am in a process of curating a several exclusive mailing list, all the collected information is private and will not be shared. What do I do with it? Exclusive event invites, founders + investors matching from different sectors and some other cool stuff.

❤️ Yorkseed Public Database👇 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/101PbxqAMpnSJ44TcCJUp8hl6v2pFXbZnKrtBQ1GzhW0/edit?usp=sharing 

If you would like to register in our public database, please fill out the Google form above and select the part where you provide your consent to be on the public list.

Interested to sponsor this newsletter or partner on in-person events in NYC or one of the local hubs, write me at : [email protected] 

We added a new Yorkseed General Support Group! This is general support system for anyone in the idea stage, early stage, or facing hardship while building your startups. In this group you’ll meet other technical people or entrepreneurs who face challenges. You are not alone in this journey.

Founders looking to raise or sell / Investors - looking for deal flow / Executives looking to work together

I like to invite you to fill out our new Yorkseed's Founder and Investor Submission Form. https://forms.gle/QPekQGaAAqPkonby7

Yorkseed Conference Hubs (with spreadsheets):

World Economic Forum - Davos, Switzerland | Paris Blockchain Week - Paris, France | VivaTech - Paris, France | Web Summit - Lisbon, Portugal | Slush VC - Helsinki, Finland | SXSW - London, UK

ETHDenver - Colorado, USA | SXSW - Austin, USA | NFT NYC - New York City, USA | New York Tech Week - New York City, USA | LA Tech Week - Los Angeles, USA | CES - Las Vegas, USA | Art Basel - Miami, USA | UN General Assembly / Climate Tech Week - New York City, USA

SXSW - Sydney, Australia

Web Summit - Doha, Qatar

Web Summit - Rio, Brazil

Web Summit - Vancouver, Canada | Startupfest - Montreal, Canada | Consensus - Toronto, Canada | The Futurist Conference - Toronto, Canada