Bonjour 🚀 Yorkseeders! #46

🚀 Greetings Yorkseeder!

Today’s Hello is in French, Bonjour! :-) What’s cooking this week within the Yorkseed radar? Token2049 .. Blockchain Summit ..

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Yorkseed has expanded its reach to the Middle East, with Dubai as our inaugural destination! If you're a founder, investor, executive, or affiliated with the tech innovation sector, you're invited to join our Dubai hub! Approval is required. Coinciding with the ongoing Token2049 and Blockchain Summit, if you're attending these conferences in Dubai, we invite you to join us and network with fellow conference attendees.

If anyone would like to collaborate / sponsor with Yorkseed, please reach out to me via email!  [email protected]  

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 hubs today! (Approval required) Paris, New York City, Austin, Miami, D.C., Los Angeles, Bay Area, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Sydney, Munich, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Rio, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Montreal, Dubai, Global Hub (International)

The previous week was bustling with New York Fintech Week and Paris Blockchain Week activities! Yorkseed collaborated with Capita.IO Yorkseed Expert Session 🚀 Lessons from the Trenches: How to raise in a non-ZIRP era 📉 with Ben Su for a session of invaluable insights into raising startup capital in today's challenging market. Ben has successfully raised two US VC-led rounds amidst market downturns while building the SaaS to help founders raise more capital faster and easier.

​With a unique blend of legal, entrepreneurial and software engineering expertise, Capita is helping founders raise more and raise faster by automating transaction processes, compliance, and deal distribution. 

​(As a Yorkseed partner, we are giving out a special promo code for anyone who's interested to use our platform: YorkSeed100)

Attending Paris Blockchain Week was enriching (did you know the conference was held inside The Louvre Museum😳?); I was able to connect with numerous Yorkseeders from various corners of the globe, putting faces to our messaging exchanges. Excited about expanding our presence in Paris even more!

April 15th - April 22nd, 2024

NYC hub

Building Innovation Bridges: Africa- US - 4/15

NYC Founders Dinner - 4/15

How to Raise from VCs? Best Practices for Startups - 4/16

Women in VC Spring Celebration - 4/16

fundraising breakfast: April- 4/16 

NYC VC & PE Happy Hour - 4/16

Light Dao Salon: Climate Risk & Resiliency with Spencer Glendon (NYC) - 4/16

MAINnet - 4/17

Startup Pitch Night in New York German Accelerator - 4/17

Building a Billion Dollar Business: Startup Grind feat. Sahil Lavingia (Gumroad) - 4/17

Curated Founders & Investors Pizza Mixer (AI, Deep tech, Hardware, Robotics) - 4/18

Big Red Ventures Annual Meeting - 4/18

VetsinTech VetCap NYC - 4/18

CNBC Changemakers 2024 The inaugural Changemakers Summit - 4/18

City & State’s Healthy New York Summit - 4/18

Pitch and Run NYC Friday - 4/19

A Sustainable Future for Food in NYC - 4/19

Female Founders Lunch - Panel Discussion & Fellowship Info Session - 4/19

Seed & Series A Founders Lunch (Sponsored by FundedBuy) - 4/19

Generative NYC with Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman - 4/22

The Future of FinTech in Mongolia - 4/22

TokenTastes: CTO Dinner in NYC by Dev.Pro & ERC-3643 - 4/23

Retail Tech - Trends in 2024 to watch & review of 2023 - hosted at Snapchat - 4/23

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Bay Area hub

AI Hardware Residency at Founders, Inc. - 4/15

DeSci SF x WikiAI: Tax Day Happy Hour - 4/15

AI B2B and B2C Investors & Networking - 4/15

SFs Largest Tech Startup, Business & Entrepreneur Networking Soiree - 4/15

AI Hardware Residency at Founders, Inc. - 4/16

The AI Hustle: Happy Hour for Startup Founders & VCs - 4/16

VC for Building Profit-First Companies w/ Indie | Halfway Club - 4/16

STARTUP APERITIF - NAVIGATING CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS - 4/16

Autonomous Humans Meetup #1 (w/ Hico Ventures) - 4/17

Light Dao Salon: A VC's View on AI's Role in the Rise of Human Consciousness (SF) - 4/17

INNOVIT Hardware & Robotics Demo Day - 4/18

EV Entrepreneurs & Executives Celebration - 4/21

East Asia x Climate Happy Hour - 4/21

SF Climate Week Opening Ceremony with City of San Francisco - 4/22

SF ClimateHack Presents: Dancing with Elephants - 4/22

VNTR Investors Roundtable Silicon Valley during Startup Grind - 4/22

Seed Founder-Investor Speed Networking with Better Ventures, Urban Innovation Fund, Superorganism & More! - 4/22

Fighting Ocean Plastic Pollution: Special Guest Talk + Cocktails with Simon Bernard, Founder/CEO of Plastic Odyssey - 4/22

BLENDED CAPITAL & CRITICAL MINERALS COCKTAILS (Orion and Factor) - 4/22

Los Angeles hub

Light Dao and Mission Matters Salon: Conscious Retail Business - Dayton Miller (LA) - 4/15

CTO Dinner in Los Angeles by Dev.Pro - 4/15

Pups & Lattes with Brex and Vouch LA - 4/17

Startup Cafe with Fadi Hindi - 4/17

AI LA Earth Summit 2024 - 4/18

Santa Monica Tech Happy Hour - 4/18

LA ClimateTech Mixer - 4/18

FFCExpert in LA: Raising and Scaling to Over $150MM With Tia - 4/18

Earliest Stage Funding - 4/20

Austin hub

Raising Venture Capital Investment - 4/17

Austin Hardware Meetup: Hardware Happy Hour Sponsored by Knectiv and Xebec! - 4/18

April ClimateTech Coffee - 4/19

Pitch and Run ATX - 4/19

Miami hub

Deep Tech Brunch by Draper Cygnus & Lazo - 4/15

Founders' Grit and the Future with Fintech - 4/15

Pitch Roadshow #2: Spot a Founder Miami - 4/15

Fort Lauderdale Tech Meetup - 4/15

Building Bridges LATAM & World - 4/16

TechBridge: Meetup - 4/17

Pitch & Run Miami Pt. 2 (With PnR Founder!) - 4/19

VNTR Investors Roundtable Miami during eMerge Americas - 4/19

Miami AI Hub 🤝 React Miami: Generative Gatherings - 4/21

D.C. hub

Startup Pitch & Networking Washington (120 in-person) - 4/18

Landing in the U.S. Market: How DC’s New Soft Landing Initiative Supports International Start-ups & Businesses - 4/18

All Raise DC + DC Startup Women: Spring Walk and Talk - 4/19

Paris hub 

BBL - Temporal.io x leboncoin tech - 4/16

Station F AI X SWES Clubs Meetup - 4/17

CCI Paris x SeedLegals - Demo Day - 4/17

Web 3.0 Community Meetup | Nec Mergitur - 4/18

Tech a drink à Palaiseau - Paris-Saclay - 4/18

Réunion entrepreneurs & professionnels : édition réseautage - 4/18

Entrepreneurs in Paris - 4/19

London hub

Routes to Impact in Policy - 4/15

Stepping Stones: The Journey From VC to Growth Equity - 4/15

Finextra x NayaOne: UK Fintech Week Drinks Reception - 4/16

AI Forge: Investor Pitch Tuesday - 4/16

Venture Sparks: A 2-Hour Sprint for Innovation and Collaboration - 4/17

Startup Run - bi-weekly 5k run & networking drinks - 4/18

Liberty Ventures London Meet Up - 4/18

Tech Startups in the Pub - 4/19

London AdTech April Mayfair Networking Reception, Make AdTech Connections - 4/20

Operators & Friends - The Operator to Founder Journey w/ Concept Ventures - 4/16

In-person Battery Pub (start-up/investment edition!) - 4/17

Innovating Tomorrow: Exploring the Intersection of Technologies and Opportunities in Hong Kong’s I&T - 4/17

Breakfast with tech entrepreneurs - 4/20

Investor & founder conference + London's largest demo - 4/22

Lisbon hub

Work on Climate - April Edition - 4/15

Pitch Day Lisbon Founders - 4/16

Global Tech Hubs: The Future of IT - 4/17

Web3 Wednesday Lx - 4/17

Polygon Guild Lisbon x W3B Lab | Powered by MMLaw & ChainGPT - 4/18

Tech Talks - The Future of Payments - 4/18

Women in Tech Lisbon - OutGeekWomen - 4/18

Founders Running Club :: Lisbon - 4/19

StartUp Day @ TecStorm'24 - 4/19

Lisbon HR+AI Summit - 4/22

Berlin hub

Speed Networking for Berlin Tech: Web3 & AI Edition @ w3.hub - 4/15

Speed Networking for Berlin Tech: Web3 & AI Edition @ w3.hub - 4/15

HTW Startup Challenge - 4/16

Italian Startup - Pitch Day - Drinks & Pizza - 4/17

IP Strategy for Hardware Startups: Protecting Your Innovation - 4/18

Founders Running Club :: Easy 5km Run + Talks - 4/20

Munich hub

Women Start-up Coffee Jour Fixe x UVC Partners - 4/16

Female Funding Roadshow | für Gründerinnen & Investor:innen | München - 4/17

The Munich Startup Conference 2024 - 4/17

Future of IT & Tech in Munich - 4/22

Helsinki hub

Tallinn Startup Meetup - 4/18

Montreal hub

CyberSoirée FPE : Connectez, Sécurisez, Évoluez - 4/17

5@7 - IA + Tourisme : tendances et solutions émergentes - 4/17

SaaSpasse à Montréal — édition 8 - 4/18

Toronto hub

SF/LA/SEA Founder Mixer - Presented by Aceocial - 4/20

Tech Unity: Toronto DAO & Bitcoin Cash - 4/23

Rio de Janeiro hub

VNTR Investors Roundtable Rio De Janeiro during Web Summit Rio - 4/17

Circuito Startup + Networking Rio + AI HUB (Edição Web Summit) - 4/18

Buenos Aires hub

Seminario práctico sobre Bitcoin, Blockchain y las ciudades del futuro - 4/19

The Bitcoin Halving Games - 4/20

Dubai hub

Feasting on Future Tech: Web3 and AI Insights with XDC Ecosystem - 4/16

Web3 Summit Dubai - 4/16

Venture Horizons: Investing in Tomorrow - 4/16

GLOBAL AI AND BLOCKCHAIN AWARDS - 4/17

TradFi & Crypto VC Dinner - 4/17

Web3 Synergy: Uniting Crypto Capital Networks - 4/17

VNTR Family Office Workshop Dubai during TOKEN2049 - 4/18

The Future of Tech Web3 Trends in 2024 at TOKEN2049 Dubai - 4/18

Supercharge and Katalyze: with Superscrypt, Reforge, Kaito, and J17 Capital - 4/18

VNTR Investors Roundtable Dubai during Token2049 - 4/19

Exclusive For Investors | Meet With Amazing Founders | Dubai - 4/19

Asimov AI Meetup - 4/19

Blockchain Universe Summit 2024 (Standard) - 4/20

The Crypto Funds Yacht 2049 - 4/20

Hong Kong hub

La French Tech - InnoEX After Party - 4/15

<div>ine Connections - Tech-focused Neurodiversity Networking Event - 4/16

Urban Technology Week 2024 - I&T Tech Talk & Panel Discussion @HKU Innowing - 4/16

Sydney hub

Startup&Angels | Pitch Your MVP | Sydney - 4/18

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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. Global Hub, Paris, New York City, Austin, Miami, D.C., Los Angeles, Bay Area, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Sydney, Munich, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Rio, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Montreal. 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!

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

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Our 2024 Conference Hubs (with spreadsheets):

World Economic Forum - Davos, Switzerland

ETHDenver - Colorado, USA

SXSW - Austin, USA | Consensus - Austin, USA

NFT NYC - New York City, USA | New York Tech Week - New York City, USA

LA Tech Week - Los Angeles, USA

Paris Blockchain Week | VivaTech - Paris, France

Collision - Toronto, Canada | Startupfest - Montreal, Canada

SXSW - Sydney, Australia

Web Summit - Lisbon, Portugal

Slush VC - Helsinki, Finland

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