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Today’s Hello is in Nahuatl (Mexico - Indigenous): Niltze ! What’s cooking this week within the Yorkseed radar?

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Two weeks ago, Yorkseed had the privilege of joining the AI Global Leadership Summit at the New York Stock Exchange, hosted by the NYC Office of Technology & Innovation, Supermomos, and the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs.

It was a room filled with thoughtful energy—leaders across government, business, and academia came together to tackle one big question: How do we build an AI future that’s both innovative and inclusive?

Hearing from public sector leaders like Dilip Chauhan, Edward Mermelstein, and Aissata M.B. Camara reminded us just how vital public-private collaboration is when shaping what’s next. Their words struck a chord with our Yorkseed mission—to back purposeful founders building solutions that serve humanity, not just headlines.

As we continue supporting startups in AI, climate tech, health tech, and beyond, we left the Summit feeling more energized than ever to contribute to NYC’s evolving innovation story—and to keep forging global connections that matter.

What’s happening next in Yorkseed NYC? →

Join us this Saturday! ​Rooftops & Rollouts: Yorkseed Kicks Off FinTech Week with Founders & Funders

​We’re kicking off NYC FinTech Week with a rooftop gathering that’s all about community, connection, and real conversations. Whether you're building in fintech, health tech, climate, AI, consumer, or beyond—this evening is for founders and funders shaping what’s next.

​Fresh air. Big ideas. Founders in motion.
Let’s roll.

​Bonus: After the event, we’ll share a LinkedIn list of attendees with everyone who registered—so you can keep the connections going.

​Have you seen our color coded Yorkseed FinTech Week Spreadsheet yet? We covered all ecosystem events from April 21st till April 28th.

Hey Mate! Are you in London 🇬🇧? Join us on 🗓 Tuesday, April 15th from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM for a relaxed and casual evening of networking and connecting with founders, investors, and innovators in London’s thriving startup scene. ​

As we look ahead to London Tech Week, this meetup is all about building authentic relationships in a laid-back setting. Whether you're looking to share insights, explore potential partnerships, or simply meet like-minded people, this is the perfect chance to do so.

Paris, you showed up. 🇫🇷 With less than 24 hours to pull it together, Yorkseed x Club Y – hosted “Building Strong Startups: Navigating the Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship” on the sunny terrace of L'Amphi Quai de Seine—and it turned into something truly special.

We talked openly about the real side of entrepreneurship: mental health, burnout, pressure, and purpose. No fluff—just honest conversations and meaningful connections.

The energy? Unmatched. New ideas sparked, perspectives shifted, and we left reminded that strong startups are built on both resilience and vulnerability.

What’s happening next in Yorkseed Paris? →

📣 Volunteer with Yorkseed! We’re looking for local leaders to help run meetups in flexible formats. This is a great opportunity to represent Yorkseed in your community!

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)

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April 14th - April 21st

NYC hub

Pitch and Run Monday - 4/14

Brits in Tech & Startups - Happy Hour - 4/14

Advanced Founder Forum: Connecting Experienced Entrepreneurs - 4/14

Pitch & Run - Prospect Park - 4/15

Everything Angel Pt 2: So you want to be an investor - 4/15

Startup Pitch Event! The Feedback Loop (April 15) - 4/15

2nd Global Islamic FinTech Forum 2025 - 4/15

Everything Angel Pt 2: So you want to be an investor - 4/15

FC NYC • Founders Run & Coffee! - 4/15

NYC Tech Breakfast Club April - 4/16

Founders Basketball - 4/16

NYC Coffee Club ☕ For B2B Founders Validating Ideas - 4/16

Investors & Entrepreneurs in New York - 4/16

Pitch & Run - Williamsburg - 4/16

La French Tech NYC - Afterwork - 4/16

Pitch and Run - Central Park - 4/16

Pitch and Run 730am Thursday Early Bird - 4/17

Women in Tech Mixer - 4/17

Pitches and Pints: Startup Grind Happy Hour Showcase - April - 4/17

Startup Pitch & Networking in NY Brooklyn - 4/17

FoodHack New York City: Food Tech - Investing and Fundraising in 2025 - 4/17

Navigating AI in Women's Healthcare: Insights from VC & Founders - 4/17

Product Builders in Health and Wellness Tech Happy Hour [NYC] - 4/17

Startup Pitch Event NYC Brooklyn - 4/17

State of AI: Brendan Englot, Dir, Stevens Inst. for AI + Sanjay Macwan, CIO - 4/18

LeRobot Arm Hackathon NYC - 4/19

Special Fintech Week & AI Jump Off Power Walk / part of Creators and Founders Power Walk - 4/20

NYC B2B: FinTech Founders & Operators Meetup - 4/21

NY Fintech Week: NYC Fintech Coffee - 4/21

FinTech Week TechWalk | NYC, 4/21 - 4/21

Flipping the Script On Investors: Reverse Pitches for NY Fintech Week Produced by RevTech Labs - 4/21

***Investor Only*** Networking Happy Hour hosted by Diadem Capital & Carta - 4/21

Fiat Growth, Valli Ventures & ResilienceVC Fintech Week Kickoff Party - 4/21

NYC B2B: FinTech Founders & Operators Meetup - 4/21

FinTech Forward: An Exclusive Aprio Dinner - 4/21

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

Bay Area hub

FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! - 4/15

Funded Female Founders - Scaling to Series A and Beyond - 4/15

AI Showdown: Pitch, Compete, Win ✨ Alumni Ventures and ​​The GenAI Collective - 4/15

Path to VC Partner - 4/15

Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco - 4/16

Investor Connect: Pitch & Network Night in San Francisco - 4/16

An Intimate Discussion on Developer Productivity: Measuring AI Investments - 4/16

16VC Startup Funding Mixer - 4/16

Pitch & Run San Francisco - 4/16

Silicon Valley SaaS Night in Downtown Palo Alto. Speaker: Victor Oh, Partner, Springcamp - 4/16

AI & Tech Networking in San Francisco - 4/16

Venture Capital Panel: What's Hot, What's Not! #10 (In-Person) - 4/16

[Zero Gravity] Agentic RAG Hack Night at GitHub - 4/17

Silicon Valley Tech + Startups Social in Menlo Park 🍸🎉 Speaker: Alec Walker, Founder & Co-President, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs TC - 4/17

Llama Lounge 17: The AI Startup Event Series at Stanford - 4/17

AI Founder Pitch Night - 4/17

SF Tech Breakfast Club - 4/17

Out in Tech SF Bay Area | Women, TGX, Non-Binary VCs + Founders - 4/17

Hack The Future - AI Unchained - 4/18

VIBE25-1: After Dark Vibe-Coding Hackathon - 4/18

Climate x AI Hackathon (AI for Good in Climate Tech) - 4/18

Hack the Future - AI Unchained - 4/18

Hack on ARC Prize or Fine-tune Deep Seek: Strong Compute + GPUs included - 4/18

Minerva Hacks - AI in Education | Hackathon & Essay Contest - 4/18

SF UAP Hackathon - 4/18

Building a Sustainable Economy: Corporates, Founders, Investors and Legal Frameworks - 4/21

SF Climate Week Happy Hour with Mercury & Leap Forward Ventures 2025 - 4/21

‘How to Change the World': Exclusive Screening & Conversation for Investors & Philanthropists ft. Climbing & Climate Champion Alex Honnold - 4/21

Hard Tech and Hard Pavement: SFCW25 Welcome Run with Ammobia and Banc of Cal - 4/21

Austin hub

Rise Together: Women Entrepreneurs Networking Meetup Series - 4/14

April Startup Coffee Connect - 4/15

Austin Open Coworking, Presented by Hubspot for Startups - 4/15

Founder Night Out: Post-FounderX Texas x SXSW Edition - 4/16

AI, Law & Healthcare: The Innovation Roundtable- 4/16

OpenCoffee Club Austin - Northside - 4/17

Austin Female Founders & Friends - 4/18

Founders Running Club :: Austin - 4/19

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Chicago hub

Polsky Exchange Capital Series - Booth Angels Network of Chicago & New York - 4/15

Filecoin Orbit Chicago: The Future of Decentralized Storage - 4/15

Health2Tech Chicago - 4/16

☕️ 1 Million Cups Chicago ☕️ - 4/16

Sequoia @ UChicago - 4/17

WEB3 AI AGENTS - 4/17

Kaplan Pitch Tank (Spring '25) - 4/18

D.C. hub

The State of Crypto 2025: Crypto Startups Roadshow - 4/14

Entrepreneurship & Small Business: A conversation with Bill Condron (C’97) - 4/15

Entrepreneurship in Health Pitch Challenge - 4/16

Washington DC Tech + Startups Social - 4/16

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

Los Angeles hub

Investor Connect: Pitch & Network Night Los Angeles - 4/15

Startup Pitch & Networking in Los Angeles - 4/15

OneSixOne Defense and Deep Tech Mixer - 4/17

Humanity Verified by Worldcoin: Los Angeles Edition ☀️ - 4/17

Fintech: Revolutionizing Commerce - 4/19

Face to Face with Investors - TCA Venture Group - 4/21

Miami hub

Miami Startup Founders Morning Club (in Midtown) - 4/15

[REDACTED] Hackathon Co-Hack @ The Port - 4/16

hack night v0.45: React Miami Edition - 4/17

Amsterdam hub

Paris hub

Pitch & Drink - Entrepreneurs & Tech Lovers - Afterwork Networking - 4/16

CEO Afterwork |14th edit - 4/15

Worklife Tech Series #1 - 4/16

Pitch & Drink Networking - 4/16

How Stripe Builds With AI - 4/16

Paris Web 3.0 Community Meetup - 4/17

Workshop Microsoft : IA Générative Responsable & Sécurisée - 4/17

Open Blue: Pitch & Networking - 4/17

Prendre conscience des angles morts de la transition écologique et sociale : Conversation avec Clara Deletraz & Guillaume Soto Mayor - 4/17

Permanance Hackathon Solana Colosseum - 4/19

Yorkseed Co-Working at Bastille - 4/19

Founders Running Club :: Paris - 4/19

Permanance Hackathon Solana Colosseum - 4/19

Dublin hub

Pitch & Run - Dublin - 4/16

London hub

London Fintech Breakfast - 4/14

Yorkseed London Venture Circle: Pints, Founders & Funders - 4/15

CEC London presents: Circular 5 & networking - 4/15

ANTLER NEXT-GEN - 4/15

Harem London - Founders' Talk - 4/15

Pitch Showcase + Networking. Turkish Startups Expanding to the UK  - 4/16

FemTUK: Inspiring a New Generation of Female Founders in Music Tech - 4/16

Pitch and Run London - 4/17

Startup Run - bi-weekly 5k run & networking drinks - 4/17

LEVEL UP in Tech with Rafie Faruq - 4/17

The Big Idea that made the UK’s fastest growing company - 4/17

Charity Padel Tournament: Founders, Investors, Changemakers (Forbes 30 Under 30, WEF Global Shapers, Horizon, Locals etc.) - 4/18

HOC'S female founders luxury roundtable lunch - 4/19

EasyA x Polkadot London Hackathon: win £100,000 in prize money and funding - 4/19

Zurich hub
CV Labs Tech Series 2025: Block1 - Decentralized AI Ecosystem - 4/16

Lisbon hub

Circular Economy Trends - 4/16

Founders Running Club :: Lisbon - 4/19

Munich hub

Entrepreneur Meetup _ Unternehmertreffen in München - 4/15

Founder & Freelance Social Run - 4/15

Founders Running Club :: Munich - 4/19

Berlin hub
🚀 Web3 Startup Founders & Funds | Powered by The Algorand Accelerator - 4/17

Consumer AI Founders - Network, Demos and Drinks - 4/19

Helsinki hub

Founders Running Club :: Helsinki - 4/19

Montreal hub

Lunch of the M&A Club Rive-Sud - 4/15

N49P Office Hours in Montreal - 4/16

Toronto hub

From Scale to Sale: Mastering the Tech M&A Journey - 4/15

Angel Investing 101: How Intellectual Property Fuels Startup Growth - 4/16

TO Coffee Club ☕ For B2B Founders Validating Ideas - 4/16

Fintech Social Toronto - 4/17

Founders Running Club :: Toronto - 4/19

GLOBAL STARTUPS CLUB l STARTUP NETWORKING Toronto 2025 - 4/19

Medical Business Leaders Community Launch Dinner - 4/20

São Paulo | Rio hub

Buenos Aires  hub

Dubai hub

Dubai 2025 Venture Capital World Summit - 4/14

Startup Pitch & Networking in Dubai - 4/15

VNTR Investor Roundtable Dubai - 4/15

Web3 Builders Connect by Daos Hub - 4/15

DeFi+AI = DeFAI Demo Day 2025 - 4/18

Friday BYBIT&Dubai Crypto Community MeetUp - 4/18

Business Elite Dinner & Party - 4/20

Tel Aviv hub

Founders Running Club :: Tel Aviv - 4/19

Nucleate Israel BioTour at ALYNnovation - 4/21

The Rise of Builders - 4/21

next play tel aviv - 4/21

Hong Kong hub

So French Tech Nigh VIP Cocktail - 4/14

TokenMuch Face Ceo - 4/21

Singapore 

FC SG • Founders Run & Coffee! - 4/15

Lion City Connect - 4/16

Future Proof Your Business – Where AI and Lifestyle Come in Alignment - 4/16

GLOBAL STARTUPS CLUB l STARTUP NETWORKING Singapore 2025 - 4/19

(SYD) Saturday Run - Startup Striders - 4/19

Sydney hub

Startup Pitch & Networking in Sydney - 4/18

Founders Breakfast Meetup | Sydney Australia - Global Startups Club 2025 - 4/19

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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, Helsinki, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, São Paulo, Buenos Aires | Rio, Toronto, Montreal, Dubai, Zurich, Milan, Tel Aviv, Global Hub (International). 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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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

SXSW - Sydney, Australia

Web Summit - Doha, Qatar

Web Summit - Rio, Brazil

Web Summit - Vancouver, Canada | Startupfest - Montreal, Canada | Consensus - Toronto, Canada

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