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Today’s Hello is in Cham (Vietnam/Cambodia minority group): "Halep" ! What’s cooking this week within the Yorkseed radar?

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Last week, Yorkseed brought together founders, investors, and ecosystem partners for an evening of meaningful connections and fresh ideas. The room buzzed with energy as conversations turned into collaborations, sparking new opportunities across industries. From casual introductions to deep discussions on scaling and funding, the event reflected what Yorkseed is all about — building bridges across the global venture community.

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🌍 Our master side event spreadsheet for NYC Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly is back!

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🤝 If you’d like to co-host an event under the Yorkseed Passport Series, reach out to us — we’d love to collaborate.

💫 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 | UN Week in September and Web Summit Lisbon in November. interested to be a part of it?
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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

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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September 8th - September 15th, 2025

NYC hub

Pitch and Run Monday - 9/8 

FinnovateFall - 9/8

NYC B2B: Pre-Seed + Seed Founders & Investors Meetup - 9/8

Founder Friends NYC Finovate - 9/8 

T Palmer Agency's NYC Blueprint Bites: Breakfast Series - 9/9 

NYC Breakfast Club for ML Leaders - 9/9 

🚀 Startup Luncheon: A Lawrence Krubner Production - 9/9 

Founders: Off the Record - 9/9

FC NYC • Founders Run & Coffee! - 9/9 

Pitch & Run - Prospect Park - 9/9 

Junto Founder Dinner (Hosted by Andrew & Friends) - 9/9 

Rooftop Drinks & Lightning Talks: Nerd Out on Real Data Problems @ Fractal Tech - 9/9 

Cohort 6 Investor Pitch Night - Day 2 - 9/10 

Investor Connect: Pitch & Network Night NYC Manhattan - 9/10 

Founder Coffee Meet - 9/10 

NYC Startup & VC Soiree | Supermoon, Zetachain & Solana Skyline - 9/10 

Couture & Code: REBOOT | Official New York Fashion Week Kickof - 9/10 

Soft Genes 006: Life in the Toolkit - Christina Agapakis, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Shelby Newsad - 9/10 

FoodHack New York City: AI in Food & Beverage - 9/10 

Exclusive Business Networking & Social Mixer at Hudson Yards - 9/11

Startup Mixer by TechBrig & Fridman Law Firm - 9/11 

Pitch and Run 730am Early Bird Battery Park - 9/11 

Tech Pickleball NYC - 9/12

Pitch and Run Friday - The Original PNR - 9/12 

Forum X Anthropic Hackathon: Agentic AI for Zero-to-One Company Building - 9/12

Open Founder's Forum - 9/12 

The INTERNET OF AGENTS HACKATHON @SOLANA SKYLINE - 9/14

Junto Founder Dinner (Hosted by Andrew & Friends) - 9/15

TGE summit - 9/15

Healthtech Social by Scalpels & Spreadsheets - 9/15

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

San Fransisco Bay Area hub

CVC Week: Welcome Party. Hosted by Counterpart Ventures, SMBC, Woven Capital and DLA Piper - 9/8 

Startup Valley: SaaS Founders Night in San Francisco - 9/8 

⚾ Giants Under the Lights: A Night at the Ballpark for AI Founders & Investors - 9/8 

Graph Exchange, Fall 2025 - Agentic AI Memory - 9/8 

Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco - 9/8 

CVC Week: Insurtech and Auto Tech Happy Hour with Allstate Strategic Ventures, Assurant Ventures, and Yamaha Motor Ventures - 9/9 

The Next Revolution of AI: Impact Summit - 9/9

AI Infra Summit x Magicball, Santa Clara - 9/9 

Nordic Female Founders Fika - 9/9 

Daytona AI Builders - SF, September '25 @GitHub - 9/9

Into the Cluster: The Fabric of AI’s Next Leap - 9/9

CVC Week: Food, Ag, CPG Happy Hour - 9/9 

MCP After Hours: AI Dev Tools and Talks - 9/9 

FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! - 9/9 

Silicon Valley Investing Summit: AI, Enterprise, Healthtech - 9/9

PLAYBACK - 9/9 

Xylem - 9/9 

Daytona AI Builders - SF, September '25 @GitHub - 9/9 

CVC Week: Enterprise AI Happy Hour with ServiceNow Ventures and Cisco Investments - 9/9 

CVC Week: Fintech Happy Hour with Experian Ventures - 9/9 

Counter Match: CVC x Founder Meetup by Counterpart Ventures - 9/9 

CVC Week: Defense Tech Dinner with Boeing Ventures and SAIC Ventures - 9/9 

Founders & Funders Happy Hour! - 9/10 

Real time Video and GenAI Workshop with VideoDB - 9/10 

Intercom x Chemistry: Fireside Chat w/ Des and Ethan - 9/10 

Counter VI by Counterpart Ventures, part of CVC Week - 9/10 

Agents & Founders: Back to School Party w/ Zero Prime 📚🍺 - 9/10 

SF Coffee Club | B2B Tech Founders & Funders - 9/10 

Founders You Should Know Startup Showcase - 9/10 

AI Infra Night with AWS, Exostellar, Unsloth, and Baseten - 9/11 

Founders B2B AI Breakfast @ Cole Frieman & Mallon LLP - 9/11 

CVC Week: Pick-up Basketball with Uplift Sports & Entertainment - 9/11 

CVC Week: Path Ahead Ventures (REI) Hike + Giveaway - 9/11 

CVC Week: Poker Night ♠ - 9/11 

Build an Aligned AI Future - 9/11

Design Fireside Chat with Jonathan Arena, Co-Founder @ New Generation - 9/11 

Building frontier AI products with Fin x Cognition x Harvey x Perplexity - 9/11 

Llama Lounge 19: The AI Startup Event Series at SAP Palo Alto - 9/11 

IRL in SF ~ Women in Healthtech x The Council: Angel Investing in Healthtech - 9/11

FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! (Late Night Summer Series) - 9/11 

Forum X Anthropic Hackathon: Agentic AI for Zero-to-One Company Building - 9/12

AI Vibe Coding Summit: Engineers, PMs, Designers - 9/12

GGW Sharks. AI Founders & Investors. - 9/12 

Hackathon: Build Your AI Teammate with CodeRabbit & Cline - 9/13 

🔥 SF AI Vibe Coding Hackathon - 9/13 

Redwood Research Red Teaming Hackathon - 9/13

Agents × Infra: The Next AI Stack - 9/13 

Accelerate Climate Innovation with Earth Data & AI - 9/15 

TTR 14: Climate x DeepTech Ride!- 9/16

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Austin / San Antonio hub 

Hack AI - 9/10 

Pitch and Run/Walk ATX - 9/12

Chicago hub

Intro and Insight: A dive into angel investing - 9/10 

Chicago Quant & Industry Meetup 2025 - 9/11 

Bring a Friend to TechWalk Day | Chicago, 9/14- 9/14

Washington D.C. hub

Data Science DC: AI/ML Double Header - 9/9 

Pitch and Run DC - 9/10

Boston

Growth-Stage Startup Leadership Mixer - 9/9 

Boston Blockchain Week 2025: Where Blockchain Meets AI - 9/9

Offer Accepted Live: Boston 🎙️ - 9/10 

LLM Hackathon for Materials & Chemistry @ MIT - 9/11

Solana Boston 2025 - 9/13

Life Science Hikers - Boston Edition - September Hike - 9/14

Boston Fintech Coffee - 9/15

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

Los Angeles hub

Consumer, Commerce, Creator, CPG Pickleball Party #AdventureCapitalists - 9/9 

Techstars Space Fall 2025 - Mentor & Alumni Mixer Sponsored by JP Morgan - 9/10

Startup Cafe: Founder Journey, Healthcare, and Maintaining Balance as a Founder - 9/10

Owning Our Health in Community - 9/10 

LA Tech Happy Hour - Venice / MdR - 9/10 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Los Angeles - 9/10 

Creators & Capital - 9/11

Founders Running Club :: LA - 9/13

Miami hub

UGLY TALK: BUILDING AND SCALING TECH COMPANIES IN MIAMI - 9/9 

Wellness for Founders: Your Personal Roadmap - 9/9

Miami AI Hub - Generative Gatherings Powered by Baptist Health - 9/10 

Connections & Capital Miami Meetup by Fortress & Next Layer Capital @ Regatta Coconut Grove - 9/11 

Founders Running Club :: Miami - 9/13

Amsterdam hub

CoreNet EMEA Rooftop Reception - 9/8 

AISO Talks: Adapting to the Age of AI - Change, Choice, and What Makes Us Human | Anke den Ouden (ex-CEO of Microsoft NL) - 9/10 

Alpha Evenings - 9/10

HealthTechSpark NL Drinks - 9/11 

Founders Running Club :: Amsterdam - 9/13

Cannes hub

Paris hub

Yorkseed Co-working at Bastille - 9/8 

LangChain Presents: AI Agents Meetup in Paris - 9/8

Serena Run Club #9 - Back to School Edition - 9/8

K-Digital Art Night - 9/11 

☄️🦖 Soirée de lancement Slow Marketing à Paris, Climate House - 9/12 

Founders Running Club :: Paris - 9/13

Mistral AI MCP Hackathon - 9/14

Yorkseed Co-working at Bastille - 9/15 

Cursor Meetup Paris - 9/15 

Ben&Vic, ThirtyFive et WAX vous donnent rendez-vous chez Meta - 9/16 

Comment les agents IA autonomes influencent les stratégies Go-to-Market - 9/16 

Crypto Derivatives And The Institutional Growth Curve- 9/17

Dublin hub

Liffey Founders Club - Open Mic Pitches - 9/9

Pitch & Run - Dublin - 9/10

London hub

European Defense Tech Meetup – London - 9/8

LangChain x Microsoft: AI Agents Meetup - London - 9/9 

Demo Night - 9/10

Cursor evening hack 🌙 - 9/10 

Design Engineering Nights - 9/10 

Terra.do x The Green Londoner Climate Social & Quiz - 9/10 

Junior VC Networking Drinks - 9/10 

Long Now London 2509 - What next? - 9/10 

Life of a Founder // Stephen Whitworth (CEO of incident.io 🔥) - 9/10

Junior VC Networking Drinks - 9/10 

Pitch and Run London - 9/11

Voice AI Space London#3 - 9/12

Beyond Context Limits: Building Enterprise-Grade AI - 9/14 

🚀 Startup Grind London All-Star Pitch Battle 2025 - 9/15

AI Devtools Meetup #3 - 9/15 

VS Code Dev Days London - 9/15

veed X unicorn mafia - end of summer party - 9/15

Zurich hub

Invite-Only Climate & Sustainability Investor Session - 4WARD.earth x Top Tier Impact - 9/9 

Founders Running Club :: Zurich - 9/13

Milan hub
Novaterra | Forward Builders - 9/15

Lisbon hub

End of Summer MLOps Meetup - 9/11

Munich hub

The Art of VC - Reverse Demo Day of Venture University - MUNICH - 9/9 

What’s next at the intersection of AI, Robotics & Web3. - 9/11 

Founders Running Club :: Munich - 9/13

Berlin hub

UN-CONFERENCE: Engineering AI Together #3 - 9/10 

AI tuning proteins, games tuning AI — The agentic future of AI in protein design & biomedical research - 9/10 

Berlin Energy Hackathon 2025 - 9/12

Founders Running Club :: Berlin - 9/13

Helsinki hub

Founders Running Club :: Helsinki - 9/13

Montreal hub

SaaSpasse Conf '25 - 9/10 

Toronto hub

Together Toronto - 9/8 

Commerce Toronto- 9/15

São Paulo | Rio hub

Founders Running Club :: Rio de Janeiro - 9/13

Buenos Aires hub

Founders Running Club :: Buenos Aires - 9/13

Mexico City hub

Dubai hub

Startup Pitch & Networking in Dubai - 9/9 

Stablecoin Connect: Solana x MESA Mixer - Dubai Edition - 9/11

Founders Running Club :: Dubai- 9/13

Tel Aviv hub

The Future of Operations: A Live Panel - 9/8 

AI, Applied x Israel: From Research to Real-World Impact - 9/8 

Global Capital Opportunitiesfor Israeli Companies: Strategies and Investor Engagement - 9/8 

Digital Health Dougri - State of Angel Investments - 9/9 

Hyper Growth in The AI Age - 9/14

Health2Tech Tel Aviv September 2025- 9/14

Hong Kong hub

RWAs Get Real in Hong Kong - 9/8

WOW SUMMIT HONG KONG 2025 - 9/9 

GDF Digital Finance Forum - Q3 - APAC/MEA - 9/9 

Hello Blockchain HongKong—WEB3 Connect Night@WOWSummit - 9/11

Angelflow x 8Circle x Osome Presents: Pitch & Networking Night - 9/12 

Founders Running Club :: Hong Kong - 9/13

Singapore hub

How Can AI Become Your Teaching Assistant? (Round II) - 9/9 

The One About AI x Robotics - 9/10 

Bits n Atoms - Singapore - 9/10 

Innovation By Design at Singapore Design Week 2025 @Geneo- 9/18

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia hub

AI for Marketers: Real Talk, Real Growth - 9/9 

Build Club KL Co-Labs: AI Agents - 9/13

Sydney hub

How I Built This: Live Founder Demos II AI Roadshow with Startmate’s CEO - 9/9 

Startmate Alumni Demo Day (powered by Stripe) - 9/11

Anyone Can AI | Build AI Projects and Sushi! 🍣 - 9/11 

Builders Day #2 by Impact Circle - 9/14

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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

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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 

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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

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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