Molo 🚀 Yorkseeders! #34

🚀 Greetings Yorkseeder!

Today’s Hello is in Xhosa, Molo :-) What’s cooking this week within the Yorkseed radar?

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Join Yorkseed NYC hub New Year Tech Social on Jan 23rd, 2024! A tad more laid-back than our usual events, this happy hour aims to foster connections, catch up, and mingle with new faces in the ecosystem.

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Our 2024 Conference Hubs (with spreadsheets):

World Economic Forum - Davos, Switzerland

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

VivaTech - Paris, France

Collision - Toronto, Canada | Startupfest - Montreal, Canada

SXSW - Sydney, Australia

Web Summit - Lisbon, Portugal

Slush VC - Helsinki, Finland

Yorkseed is excited to announce our participation in SXSW Austin from March 8th to March 16th. We are bringing back our renowned master side event viral spreadsheet, which now includes a dedicated housing section. We understand the high costs associated with finding accommodations in Austin, TX during SXSW, so we have created a platform for conference attendees to collaborate and find affordable housing options. We encourage everyone to make the most of this spreadsheet, and if any companies are interested in advertising within it, please reach out to me via email.

January 22nd - January 29th, 2024

NYC hub

STARTUP ADVICE FROM A TRANS CEO | Entrepreneurial Success and Navigating Privilege and Power - 1/22

Monday Entrepreneurs Dinner - 1/22

Women in Healthtech: Monthly Monday Mingle -1/22

January NYC Breakfast Club - 1/23

Startup (Coffee) Grind at The Yard - January Edition - 1/23

VEGPRENEUR X SHOPIFY: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS - 1/23

Leaders in Impact Happy Hour - 1/23

Profit with Purpose: Unleashing the Power of Sustainable Business - 1/23

-1 to Runway ML with Cris Valenzuela - 1/23

Founder Fundraising - Conversation and Drinks - 1/23

Gigaspaces Talks Tech - 1st Event of 2024 - Meet & Greet - 1/24

Meetup NYC Silicon Alley 2024 - 1/24

DevOps for GenAI Hackathon NYC - 1/24

Out in Tech NY: Breaking Barriers: LGBTQ+ Professional Orgs Panel & Mixer - 1/25

Jacob Simon x CLIP Meetup - 1/25

Candid Conversations with Leading Investors & Exited Founders - 1/25

Breaking Into Tech - Women In Tech x Her Workplace - 1/25

AfricaTech NYC January Mixer - 1/25

Cloud Infra NYC January Meetup - 1/25

Pitch and Run Friday - 1/26

Weekly Founders Lunch - 1/26

World Salon Global Future Forum 2024: An Integrated Approach - 1/27

TechEmpowerED: K-12 Technology Summit - 1/27

Responsible Tech Mixer + Data Action Day | NYC, in-person - 1/29

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Bay Area hub

INSEAD HCLI: In Conversation with Frank Levinson - 1/23

Tech Talks SF ~ w/ Cloudflare, Jam.dev & Twilio - 1/23

The AI Hustle: Happy Hour for Startup Founders & VC - 1/23

Unleashing AI & ML for Business Brilliance - 1/23

SF Crypto Event: Mingle & Network with the SF Crypto Community at the House of Web3 - 1/23

San Francisco Tech Networking Mixer I Executive Order - 1/24

Ignite SF #17 - 1/25

⚙️ MLOps Community x GenAI Collective 🧠 Tech Talks 🎙️ - 1/25

Convex Developers and Founders Happy Hour in SF - 1/25

Women in the C-Suite Event - Mixer, Panel and Mini LinkedIn Workshop - 1/25

Tech Weekend by Founders Village. - 1/26

Silicon Valley Global Prospects Summit - Chinese Tech Network - 1/26

Femigrants Annual Forum: Reset. Rebuild. Reshape. - 1/26

Founders 0 to 1: How to build a Unicorn Startup and have Multiple Exits #GenAI - 1/27

Challenges & Innovations of Power Management Solutions for Data Center & AI - 1/27

Los Angeles hub

Children's Digital Privacy Summit - 1/24

Los Angeles VC Fast Pitch - 1/24

Light Dao and Mission Matters Conscious Business with Ashley Bell (LA) - 1/24

The Female Funders Club - 1/24

Startup Cafe - 1/24

Climate Techies Los Angeles Cleantech & Sustainability Networking Meetup - 1/25

Startup CPG and Cohere at Gjusta Grocer in Los Angeles - 1/25

Pitch and Run LA: Friday Runs - 1/26

Responsible AI in Business: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities Panel - 1/29

Austin hub

Austin Health Tech and Health Professionals Meetup (HTHP) - 1/23

AITX Meetup - 1/23

AUSTIN CONNECTIONS X JUSTWORKS - 1/24

Fintech With Me! – Austin Chapter Meetup - 1/25

Austin MedTech Connect - Focus on the Founder: Takeaways from JP Morgan - 1/25

Women Entrepreneurs Networking Walk - Ambitious Women Socialize & Exercise - 1/25

Austin Cup of Capital - 1/26

Enter Your LinkedIn #VillainEra: Unapologetic Fundraising Strategies for Founders - 1/29

Purpose Driven Founder Meetup - 1/29

Pitch Workshop for Austin Founders - 1/29

Miami hub

Fireside Chat: Fundraising in 2024 with Power To Pitch - 1/23

Miami Tech + Startups Party 🍸🎉​ Speaker: Sarah Pichardo, VC, PepsiCo Labs - 1/23

The #MiamiTech Happy Hour! - 1/24

TechFlo Happy Hour Meetup - 1/24

Brickell Investors & Entrepreneurs Networking Event - 1/25

The VC Latam Opportunity - Insights, Networking and More - 1/25

D.C. hub

DC Blockchain at Kingfisher - 1/22

Defense Tech Happy Hour - 1/23

Big Idea CONNECTpreneur - January 24th IN PERSON - 1/24

2nd Annual Venture in the Capital Summit at Georgetown University - 1/26

Paris hub

Petit-Déjeuner Web3 (Networking + Expo) à la NFT Factory - 1/23

Decoding the Web3 new frontiers: SwissBorg, DeFi, and DeSoc - 1/23

Club Innovation & Stratégie : probabl.ai - une offre d’IA open-source - 1/23

Le rôle des entreprises tech dans la transition écologique - 1/24

AA & SONS x LEV : quelles opportunités pour les entrepreneurs et les investisseurs dans un contexte de crise? - 1/24

Paris Web 3.0 Community Meetup - 1/25

Soirée Portes ouvertes - 1/26

Tech talks - Janvier 2024 - 1/29

Lisbon hub

Netzero Health Systems Demo Day - 1/24

Panel discussion on AI x Therapeutics - 1/24

Climate Techies Lisbon Bi-Monthly Member Sustainability Coffees Meetup - 1/26

Crypto Friday @ The Block Lisboa - 1/26

Founders Running Club :: Easy 5-10km Run + Talks - 1/26

LYCONET DAY JANEIRO 2024 - 1/28

Lisbon Startup Founders Discussion Panel - 1/29

London hub

Women in Business Connector at 12 Hay Hill Mayfair Private Club - 1/22

In-Person Networking (LinkedIn offices, London, EC1) - 1/22

Pocket Gamer Connects London 2024 - 1/22

New Year, New World, Grow Globally! - 1/23

FINTECH Speed Pitch & Dinner for StartUp Founders to Angel & VC Investors - 1/23

TechItalia Edutech Meetup - 1/23

Conception X: Cohort 7 Discovery Session (In Person) - 1/23

The Regulatory Tightrope: Struggles Shaping Europe's Capital Markets - 1/23

Entrepreneurs networking event: How to Launch a NFT - 1/23

2024 Technology Trends: Investor Insights from VCs for Startups & Founders - 1/24

Attention! Entrepreneur living with ADHD? This dinner is for you. - 1/24

Fundraising in 2024 - A fireside chat - 1/24

Founders Live Cambridge - 1/25

Ready for take off: The journey to market - 1/25

London AI Campus Pop-Up: Women's AI Breakfast - 1/25

UCL VC & PE Club Social Event - 1/25

BIMA x Zone | SHIMA Women Leaders in Digital - 1/25

French Tech London Annual Gala - Gen AI & Quantum - 1/25

B2B Tech: Networking, Panel Discussion & Live Podcast at London Met - 1/25

Creative Change Makers 2024: London + LIVE on-line 'AI + Creativity' - 1/25

DeSci London x Imperial Grad Bio: In Conversation with David Kim - 1/25

Startup Run - bi-weekly 5k run & networking drinks - 1/25

London ClimateHack Meetup - 1/25

FC x Dream Factory | Angel Investing in 2024 - 1/25

Hosting LLM Apps @ Scale with Haystack, Titan ML & Jina AI - 1/25

Start Up Founders and Investors Social Networking - 1/26

London BuildStop - 1/26

NFT, Web3,Blockchain, Meta, FinTech, Data, Founders, Investors Networking - 1/26

StartUp Show: The UK's biggest start-up event of the new year - 1/27

E/acc Hackathon - 1/27

Inventors' Club - 1/29

Campaign Lab Winter Hack Nights - 1/29

The London Startup Scene - Networking and Open-Mic Pitching - 1/29

Berlin hub

Navigating the Investment Terrain - With Jeff Katz from 1.5 Ventures - 1/23

Decoding the Investment Jargon - With Jeff Katz from 1.5 Ventures - 1/24

Founder Meet & Greet: Berlin In-Person Startup Networking New Years Edition - 1/25

Deep Tech Night - 1/25

UX-Testing at the Startup Incubator Berlin - January 2024 - 1/25

FemTalk - Let’s talk money Berlin - 1/25

Lean Café @ BHT Startup Hub: Intellectual Property for Early Stage Startups - 1/25

Gründerinnen Meetup Berlin - 1/25

Munich hub

Web3 2024: A Year of Change and Opportunities - 1/23

Innovation durch Kollaboration | Impulse aus der Initiative #Hausflotte - 1/23

Entrepreneurs München - 1/23

Transforming Aviation and Space, Empowering Sustainability - 1/25

1. Grafinger GReathon - 1/26

Helsinki hub

Founders Coffee - 1/25

AWS User Group Finland reinvent 2023 recap - Sponsored by Cloud2 - 1/25

Montreal hub

Tech Lunch 2024 -01 - 1/23

DIV3 - Tourisme VR, productions immersives & retour sur le CES @MT Lab - 1/25

Mastering Abundance : Le sommet des femmes visionnaires - 1/27

Dr. Sasha Luccioni on AI and Climate Change (hybrid) - 1/29

Tech Gateway presents “Les lundis Géants/Big Boost Mondays” Montreal @ RBC - 1/29

Toronto hub

Bitcoin Bay Meetup - 1/22

Monthly Networking Dinner Event by Canada Investors Club - 1/23

Humanity & Tech 2: AI-Powered Social Good - 1/23

Tech and the Near Future of Art in Canada - 1/24

CohortCraft: Entrepreneurship, Co-Founder Matchup & Ideation Event - 1/24

Tech Networking Social @ Offworld Bar - 1/24

Private Hotpot w/ 1M+ ARR Founders - 1/25

Jumpstarting 2024 with TES Connect Business Networking Mixer - 1/25

Web3 & IT Startups Networking Toronto (125 in-person) - 1/25

FastStart's Pitch Competition - 1/25

2024 Launch Off to Entrepreneurship Mixer (with Guest Speaker) - 1/25

Startup Investor Drinks - 1/25

Visionaries Social for Founders, Freelancers & Creatives - 1/28

Buenos Aires hub

COWORKING ITINERANTE - 1/24

Rio de Janeiro hub

Social Immerson for Entrepreneurs - 1/23

Sec In Rio: segurança para devs - 1/27

Hong Kong hub

Weekly HackJam. Coworking & Tech - 1/23

Asia Financial Forum - 1/24-1/25

Let's meet up: Tipsy Thursday - 1/25

CROSS HARBOUR THURSDAY: In conversation with Circle's Yam Ki Chan on the new era of open money and stablecoin regulation - 1/25

Sydney hub

Sydney Data Eng meetup - 1/23

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