Bonjorn 🚀 Yorkseeders! #109 (Happy Bastille Day 🇫🇷)

🚀 Greetings Yorkseeder!

Today’s Hello is in Occitan (southern France) "Bonjorn" ! What’s cooking this week within the Yorkseed radar? Happy Bastille Day 🇫🇷 

🌍 Out of Office Notice 🌿

As someone who works across all time zones and often 7 days a week — from New York to Paris, Lisbon to Singapore — I’ve finally decided to practice what I preach: sustainable building requires sustainable rest.

Starting today, I’ll be taking 10 days completely offline to recharge, reset, and restore.

I will not be reachable via WhatsApp during this time. If it’s urgent, please email and I’ll get back to you after I return.

Thanks for your understanding — and to everyone building relentlessly, don’t forget to pause. You deserve it too.

See you on the other side 💛
— Jessica

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Yorkseed Paris Ecosystem Mixer – RAISE Summit Edition 🇫🇷✨ On Wednesday, July 9th, just steps from the Carrousel du Louvre, we brought the Yorkseed magic to Paris and what a night it was.

As the RAISE Summit convened Europe’s top founders and forward-thinking investors, Yorkseed gathered a handpicked group of global visionaries for an intimate evening of serendipity, synergy, and storytelling. 🌍💼

The Yorkseed Paris Ecosystem Mixer wasn’t your typical networking event, it was a moment of curated collision. A mosaic of founders scaling frontier tech, investors betting on long-term vision, and ecosystem allies reimagining borders and bridging global innovation corridors.

🎤 Pitch Roulette took center stage!

From New York grit to Paris charm, the room lit up with cross-border potential, candid connections, and spontaneous collaborations, the kind you can’t manufacture, only design with intention.

A massive merci to our incredible support partner, Social Links, for making this night possible. As a global leader in OSINT solutions, their commitment to innovation and security across 500+ open data sources from blockchains to the Dark Web mirrors the exact kind of frontier thinking Yorkseed exists to champion.

This was more than a mixer. It was a signal: The Paris tech scene is rising fast and Yorkseed is building the bridge between ecosystems.

🇺🇸➡️🇫🇷 From NYC to Paris, the @yorkseed network continues to expand across borders — one powerful conversation at a time.

💫 What is the Yorkseed Passport Series?

A curated global lineup of founder-and-investor-driven gatherings hosted alongside major innovation moments—from NYC to Sydney to Paris. Every stop is built on authentic connection, trusted relationships, and high-signal community energy.

Sponsoring a Yorkseed event isn’t just about logo placement—it’s a gateway to curated relationships, international exposure, and deep venture ecosystem access.

I am planning for New York Climate Week in September and Web Summit Lisbon in November. interested to be a part of it?
📩 Email me directly: [email protected]

Interested in being an expert? Email us at [email protected] to get involved!

This event is part of Yorkseed Expert Series.

​Join us for an off-the-record virtual tactical roundtable for investors shaping the future of HealthTech.

​Whether you’re deploying capital in Digital Health, BioTech, MedTech, or FemTech, this session is designed to give you clarity, strategy, and peer insight — beyond the pitch decks. In a market clouded by shrinking exits and capital uncertainty, we’re creating a space for accredited investors to speak candidly about what’s working, what’s not, and what’s coming next.

​No pitches. No pressure. Just progress.
Hosted by PulsePoint Path, Yorkseed, DFX and MedStartr, this high-trust gathering brings together 30 select investors for a private, actionable conversation on deal flow, fund performance, follow-on strategies, and the real markers of startup success.

​🧭 What You’ll Gain

​🧠 Investor Clarity
• Raw insights on what’s truly scaling in today’s HealthTech landscape
• Strategy swaps and deal feedback from seasoned peers
• A collaborative, pitch-free environment to challenge assumptions

​🎯 Network Alignment
• Build high-trust relationships with fellow LPs, angels, and fund managers
• Share frameworks and explore co-investment opportunities
• Benchmark against current trends and market dynamics

​💬 Visibility & Influence
• Opportunity to be a featured judge at PulsePoint Path’s HealthTech Showdown

Access to our local hubs is restricted to founders, investors, executives, or individuals actively involved in the local tech innovation sector or frequently visiting the local city for work. Interested to become a Yorkseeder ? Join your local city hubs today! (Approval required) Paris, New York City, Austin | San Antonio, Chicago, Miami, D.C., Los Angeles, Bay Area, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Sydney, Munich, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Singapore, São Paulo, Buenos Aires | Rio, Toronto, Montreal, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Amsterdam, Dublin, Zurich, Milan, Global Hub (International)

Our 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!

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July 14th - July 21st

NYC hub

Fashion Tech Mixer - NYC July Edition - 7/14

NYC B2B: Pre-Seed + Seed Founders & Investors Meetup - 7/14

FC NYC • Founders Run & Coffee! - 7/15

Hex + Snowflake Hackathon: Solving NYC’s Biggest Data Challenges - 7/15

NYC Data Meetup: Real-World ClickHouse Stories & Community Night - 7/15

Meet TiDB & AWS at One World Trade Center - 7/15

Gen Z NYC Founder & Creator Mixer - 7/15

💡 NY Enterprise Tech Meetup: Navigating Product and GTM in the AI Market with Graphite & Superblocks - 7/15

July Tech Rooftop Mixer (Hosted by Andrew Yeung) - 7/15

Databricks x NYC Founders Club: Using AI To Supercharge Our Companies [NYC, #2] - 7/15

SPANVentures. presents, The Portfolio Roundtable - 7/15

La French Tech NYC - Afterwork - 7/16 

Junto Founder Dinner (Hosted by Andrew & Friends) - 7/16 

Investor Connect: Pitch & Network Night NYC Manhattan - 7/16 

Pitch & Run - Williamsburg - 7/16 

Pitch and Run - Central Park - 7/16 

July Founder Breakfast - 7/16

AWS Summit NYC Happy Hour w/ Rootly, SambaNova Systems, Writer, & More - 7/16

Startup Lean Coffee - 7/16

FC NYC • Founders Run & Drinks! (Night Summer Series) - 7/16

Kanso: Here & Now (NYC) - 7/16

Tech Founders & Designers - 7/16 

NYC Tech Breakfast Club July - 7/16 

Investor Connect: Pitch & Network Night NYC Manhattan - 7/16 

AI Builders NYC - Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Groq, LastMile AI, AlleyCorp - 7/16

NYC 🗽 Private Dinner for The AI Hot 100 Founders - 7/1

NYC Fintech Coffee - 7/17 

Stateful Agents Meetup: Building agents locally with Letta & LMStudio - 7/17 

Show & Tell with AIR - 7/17 

Summer Mixer & Networking with Universal Blockchain - 7/17 

Artificially Un-Intelligent: NYC Tech Comedy Show (July) - 7/17

Pitches and Pints: Happy Hour Demo Showcase - July - 7/17 

Tech Pickleball NYC - 7/18 

Agentic AI App Hackathon with Google Cloud Run GPUs - 7/19 

Founders Running Club :: New York - 7/19

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

San Fransisco Bay Area hub

SF AI Builders + Engineers Happy Hour - 7/14

BUILDERS & BREW - Building In an AI Forward World - 7/14

AI Infra Night with AWS, SkyPilot, Anyscale & Fireworks AI - 7/14

FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! - 7/15 

WeAreLATech: LA Tech Community Beach Walk 🌊🚶 Summer Edition - 7/15

Agents Hack Day at AWS - 7/15 

AWS AI Hack Day Micro Conference #2 - 7/15 

AI for Legacy Industries Happy Hour - 7/15 

Hello, Self-Writing Internet - 7/15 

Cline | AI Agent CodeGen Meetup - 7/15 

SVB and Taylor Wessing present: AI x Bio with LifeX.VC - 7/15

The Agentic Browser Summit - 7/15

First Block — From Thiel Fellow to $2B Startup: Inside Mercor - 7/15

Engineering Night #5 - 7/15 

From Hype to Harvest: Investing in AI First Value - 7/15 

From Mythic Mischief to Market: Radical Tech & the Reformation of Science - 7/15

SF Coffee Club | Early-Stage B2B Founders & Funders - 7/16 

Funded Female Founders - YC Founders & Early Stage VCs - 7/16 

Startup Cafe: Nutrition, AI Health Innovation & Entrepreneurship - 7/16 

Funded Female Founders - YC Founders & Early Stage VCs - 7/16

Pitch & Run San Francisco - 7/16 

LangChain Office Hours - SF - 7/16 

Visionary Founder Vibe Coding Vibeathon - 7/16 

Rethink Xchange Women In AI Networking event - 7/16 

Vertical Intelligence: Founder & Funder Summit - 7/16 

The Global Agent Economy - 7/16 

-1 to Bret Taylor - 7/16 

AI Cafe: How AI is Changing the Future of the Internet - 7/17 

The Agent Takeover is Here | GenAI Assembling Ep.5 - 7/17 

Bay Area Creator Economy Summer Social - 7/17 

🧠 The AI Collective | Sip & Synapse ☕ - 7/17 

Executive Perspectives: AI in Finance - 7/17 

Designing with Intelligence: AI in Web Building - 7/17 

What’s Next for Hormonal Health? AI, Tech & the Next Breakthroughs - 7/17 

AI Agents Meetup: Ambient Agents - 7/17 

The Future of Software Engineering for Tech Leaders | Feat. Augment Code CEO & Docker EVP of Engineering and Product - 7/17 

Founders Friday - 7/18 

SF Voice AI Builders Meetup - 7/18 

Manus for Everybody - 7/18 

Drones of the Land, Sea, and Sky - 7/18 

FRC turns 3! 🥳 Special anniversary run & picnic. - 7/19 

Inside the Longevity Revolution: A Mito Health Community Meetup - 7/19 

AI Founders Go Hiking - 7/19 

SF Ruby AI Hackathon - 7/19 

AI Networking Walk San Francisco (Startups & Investors) - 7/19 

Hat-Trick Capital Consumer AI Hiking Gathering - 7/20

SF Awesome AI Dev Tools - July - 7/21

AI for the Public Good: Solutions that Matter - 7/21

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Austin / San Antonio hub 

Windsurf Austin Meetup - 7/14

NachoTuesday: SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Happy Hour - 7/15

AITX Presents: AI DevDinner - 7/16 

Entrepreneur Game & Social Hour - 7/16 

Zerohash x ATX DAO Happy Hour - 7/16 

Acquire & Invest happy hour - 7/17 

Austin Female Founders & Friends - 7/18 

Chicago hub

Startup Pitch & Networking in Chicago - 7/17 

UChicago Tech Ventures Demo Day - 7/21

Founders N' Funders: Chicago VC Reverse Pitch - 7/21

Washington D.C. hub

Cigars & Startups DC - 7/16 

JULY - VC in DC's Third Thursdays - 7/17

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

Los Angeles hub

LA Fintech Connect Happy Hour - Sponsored by TaskUs - 7/17 

Founders in Tech Meetup - 7/17 

The Social Ladies Circle - 7/17 

No Filter Pitch Party in East LA - 7/17 

Founders Running Club :: Los Angeles - 7/19 

Miami hub

Co-Build Day at The DOCK - 7/16

hack night v0.62 - South Beach - Supabase Edition - 7/17

Amsterdam hub

Founders Running Club :: Amsterdam - 7/19

Cannes hub

Paris hub

RevenueCat's Vibe Coding Catfe – Paris - 7/15

Future of Manufacturing: Cheaper, Faster, Greener - 7/16

Stablecoins: The New Backbone of Global Finance - 7/17

Create your AI Sales agent | Make x Paatch - 7/17

Pitch Night - 7/17 

Female Founders Dinner Paris - 7/19 

Founders Running Club :: Paris - 7/19 

Yorkseed Co-working at Bastille - 7/21

Dublin hub

Pitch & Run - Dublin - 7/16 

London hub

AI Demo Nights #6 ✨🤖 London JULY '25 - 7/14 

Creative AI Meetup: Neural Folklore, Improv and Poetic Embodiment - 7/15 

Design Engineering Nights - 7/15

LFG Chapter: Southwark - 7/15 

Tech & Tonic | The BIG Startup 5K Warm Up Party - 7/15 

'The Experimental Imagination' - Encode: AI for Science's Summer Salon - 7/16 

Breaking ground: bringing AI-powered products to market in large organisations - 7/17

Founder's Fundraising Check-In (Thursdays @ Sclr) - 7/17 

Founders’ Summer Drinks Reception | Wise x SeedLegals 🍹😎 - 7/17 

FLINTA* Founders Coworking with SHE/THEY Club & Antler - 7/18 

Zurich hub

Identify #2 – feat. Diego Martinez Crestelo - 7/15

AI Futures Unplugged – ZAIA Summer Meetup - 7/17 

4WARD Climate Coworking Day @ Hiltl Sihlpost - 7/17 

Founders Running Club :: Zurich - 7/19 

Milan hub

Lisbon hub

The Science Gap: Women's Health in Focus - 7/16

Munich hub

Founders Running Club :: Munich - 7/19 

Berlin hub

Polkadot Meetup Berlin - 7/15

Web3 Summit 2025 Official Side Event Calendar - 7/15

AI After Hours: A Summer Party by Notion & Techspace - 7/17 

{Tech: Europe} AI Hackathon - Berlin Edition with OpenAI, ElevenLabs & Co. - 7/19

Founders Running Club :: Berlin - 7/19 

Helsinki hub

Montreal hub

Table Ronde with Nectarios Economakis - 7/17 

Vibing w/ Supabase 5 to 7 - 7/18 

Toronto hub

Data & Drafts: API + AI Mixer - 7/14

Toronto Coffee Club | Agentic AI x Supply Chain Founders & Funders - 7/16 

São Paulo | Rio hub

DemoDay Energia - 7/17 

AI Salon Rio de Janeiro #5 - 7/17 

Buenos Aires hub

B2B, Born to Build - 7/17 

Mexico City hub

LW15 - CDMX - Supabase Meetup - 7/16 

Pitch and Run CDMX - 7/18 

Fintech Running Club: CDMX - 7/19 

Dubai hub

Founders Running Club :: Dubai - 7/19

Tel Aviv hub

Herzliya Mobility Challenge - Launch Event - 7/14

Data Engineering - 7/14 

Q2 TLVCommunity Summer Blitz @ groundcover - 7/15

Talking about Ecommerce: A Live Panel - 7/16 

Quantum Era Summit - 7/18

Syndicate Sundays - July 20th - 7/20 

Next October – Founders Summer Cocktail - 7/20 

IP : The Missing Piece for Value-Driven Investment Strategy - 7/21 

Hong Kong hub

TradFi x Crypto Surveillance - 7/15

Proof of Vibes Mixer @Hong Kong - 7/15

Slash Assemble！HKese Community - Networking Party 社群聚會交流活動 (16 July 2025・跑馬地Happy Wednesday) - 7/16 

Réel 香港：油麻地 AI 遊 - 7/19 

智链未来——Web3与AI新纪元 - 7/20

World Cafe: 內耗自救大全 Complete guide for self-recharge - 7/21

Singapore hub

FC SG • Founders Run & Coffee! - 7/15

The One About AI Testing - 7/16 

AI Agents 101 | TGB Masterclass - 7/16

The One About AI Testing - 7/16 

Figuring Shit Out Mid-Year Mixer - 7/17 

Products for Public Good - Working in the Government as a PM - 7/17 

Malaysia hub

Sydney hub

🏃‍♂️ Impact Circle x Startup Striders: Sydney Founders & VCs Run + Coffee - 7/16 

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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, 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

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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

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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

Yorkseed^TM is partnering up with Croissant! Croissant is an app that provides on-demand access to co-working spaces in NYC & cities around the world. Drop by for a few focused hours or stay for the whole day with (usually free!) coffee & fresh inspiration. As a partner with Croissant, Yorkseeders can use this link to get 30% off your first three months!