Shiwía 🚀 Yorkseeders! #120

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🚀 Greetings Yorkseeder!

Today’s Hello is in Chamicuro (almost extinct Amazonian language in Peru):
"Shiwía!" ! What’s cooking this week within the Yorkseed radar? The Yorkseed Passport Series is back for NYC Climate Tech Week + UNGA! 🌍✨

We’ve been giving out free access to our Master Side Event List for major conferences — and this time, we’d love to track how many people are using it.

📅 If you’ll be in NYC from Sept 15–30, grab your free list here:
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To access links 🔗 for our global and conference hubs, visit: yorkseed.co/#about.

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We’re back big this September! Yorkseed is reviving our Original Master Side Event List for Climate Tech Week and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) — and this year, we’re proud to support influential global partners.

Are you in town for NYC Climate Tech ax UNGA Week? Join our Hub and connect with other conference goers! https://chat.whatsapp.com/GzOBlcjWjONHqy1wbB6aSZ

✨ Yorkseed in association with Encubay, invites you to apply for the U.S. Delegation happening alongside United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative, from 22–27 September in New York City.

Why Join the Delegation?

• 🚀 Explore U.S. expansion & business opportunities

• 🤝 Find strategic partners

• 💸 Connect with 650+ investors

• 🌐 Learn from global leaders

• 🎯 Attend the Clinton Global Initiative

Be where the action is — tap into NYC’s venture ecosystem and meet founders, investors, and partners through Encubay-curated events.

⚡ Limited spots available for visionary leaders ready to make global moves. Special 20% off code “ENCUBAY” for Yorkseed community.

🗓️ Sept 22–26 | 📍 New York City
🔗 Apply now: Encubay Global Delegation Application

Prosus, a prominent global investor, in collaboration with Encubay, is hosting an exclusive invite-only investor mixer in New York City.

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🌍 Yorkseed Passport Series is back. This edition is Climate Group x United Nations General Assembly in New York

⚡ Climate risk intelligence is no longer optional. It is a critical driver of enterprise resilience and growth. With the industry expanding at a projected 29% CAGR, the momentum is unstoppable. But gaps remain

🔥 On Wednesday, September 24 we host our flagship roundtable The Future of Climate Risk Intelligence at a private residence. An intimate circle of investors and operators will explore adoption, challenges, and opportunities.

🎨 On Friday, September 26 Yorkseed and CREATANT present Digital Visual Arts & Innovation at APCO. This international gathering will bring together students, creatives, investors, and industry leaders from the US, Europe, and Japan

🤝 We are also proud to highlight a community partner event on Friday, September 26 at 12:00 PM - Women Leading Change: AI & The Wealth Shift, hosted by Products by Women with Sneha Saigal, Deeksha Ahuja, and Derek Kastner.

🚀 On Monday, September 29 we are thrilled to join as a community partner for Rocket Mixer™ – Networking Event + Pitch Competition. Expect fresh surprises, a curated room of founders and VCs, a shared dinner, special entertainment, and a thrilling pitch competition where five founders pitch to professional investors. Guests will even vote for the best pitch, and the winner will walk away with services worth thousands of dollars provided by sponsors.

✨ Exclusive. Curated. Impactful, Join us today and make a difference. https://luma.com/Yorkseed This is Yorkseed Passport Series: Climate Tech x UNGA

Yorkseed Passport Series: Deals at Dusk | GITEX Dubai Edition

​📍 World Trade Center District, Dubai
🗓 October 13 | 5:00 PM

​This exclusive Yorkseed Passport Series gathering brings together founders, investors, and ecosystem builders for curated conversations and meaningful connections — set against Dubai’s vibrant evening backdrop. Join us for high-signal networking where global perspectives meet local innovation. Attendance is limited and approval-only.

​👉 If you’re in town for GITEX or North Star, you’re welcome to join our Yorkseed Dubai hub and connect with others who will be exploring the week’s events.

💫 What is the Yorkseed Passport Series?

From NYC to Sydney to Paris, Yorkseed’s Passport Series brings founders and investors together at the moments that matter. Real connections. Trusted deal flow. High-signal community.

Sponsorship isn’t just branding, it’s access: curated intros, global reach, and venture-grade rooms.

On deck: GITEX (Oct) and Web Summit Lisbon (Nov). Join us:
📩 [email protected]
🤝 Want to co-host? We’d love to team up.

🚀 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

Yorkseed is proud to highlight the return of Speed Pitching: 1:1 Meetings With Investors during AI Week NYC, hosted by The Startup Station, Pulse NYC, and Victoria Yampolsky. Taking place on Wednesday, October 8 from 5:30–9:00 PM, this signature community partner event gives founders the rare opportunity to sit down with investors in focused one-on-one meetings designed to spark connections and accelerate fundraising.

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!

Yorkseed is going places, and with your generous donations, we can ensure it continues to flourish. Your support will enable us to maintain and enhance the platform, bringing even more value to our community. Please consider making a DONATION today to help us keep Yorkseed running smoothly. $25 goes a long way! ❤️

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September 22nd - September 29th, 2025

NYC hub

If you are hosting any events in NYC between 9/15 - 9/30, feel free to submit your event under event submission tab. During these two weeks we are reverting NYC Hub to spreadsheet format.

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

San Fransisco Bay Area hub

Afshin Mehin - Giving Form to Future States - 9/22 

Neuron Meetup - San Francisco edition - 9/22 

SF Awesome AI Dev Tools - September - 9/22 

The Trust Layer of AI “From Black Box to Transparent Systems: How Web3 Enables Verifiable AI - 9/22 

AI Talks at Qlay with Experts from AWS, rtrvr.ai and Genspark AI - 9/22 

Series Overview: Innovations in AI from Asia - 9/23

AI Meets Reliability w/ Rootly AI, NVIDIA, Baseten, OpenAI, Replit, Glean, Weights & Biases, & More! - 9/23 

SF Tech Breakfast Club September - 9/23 

From Vectors to Agentic Memory: Architecting for Supercharged AI Development - 9/23 

FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! - 9/23 

AI Deep Dives: Hugging Face, SGN and SambaNova - 9/23 

The AI Hustle: Happy Hour for Startup Founders & VCs - 9/23 

afore portfolio fall showcase - 9/23

Unicorner Presents: SF Seed+ Founders Dinner - 9/23 

Twill Presents Threads: Scaling AI from Concept to Production for Operators and Investors - 9/24 

AI Agent Builders San Francisco: Build an Agent System for Smarter Supply Chain Strategy - 9/24 

DX and Databases for Startups that Scale with PlanetScale & Convex - 9/24 

Inscope and Tabs Finance Leaders Dinner - 9/24 

Unicorner Presents: Superpower Founder Fireside - 9/24 

AI Tinkerers SF: AI Demo Jam 🏄 - 9/24 

[SF] AI After Hours w/ Encord @ GitHub HQ - 9/24 

An evening with Manus AI ft. founder Tao + special announcement - 9/25 

Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco - 9/25 

Founders Mixer - San Francisco - 9/25

Statsig's Annual Conference: Sigsum - 9/25

Accelerate Enterprise AI: Exclusive insights featuring Supermicro and NVIDIA - 9/25 

Ray Meetup: Multimodal Data + AI - 9/25 

Retro AI Arcade Night: Build the Game, Train the Player - 9/25

Flower AI Day: Open-Source Decentralized Superintelligence - 9/25 

SVGENAI: SWEng with AI tools + Snowflake Cortex AISQL - 9/25 

SF Voice AI Builders Meetup - 9/25 

Building AI agents for fintech and crypto startups - 9/25 

Voice & Vision: AI Avenue Watch Party - 9/25 

GIGAPARTY 3: Robot Kombat! WORLD'S FIRST VR-CONTROLLED ROBOT FIGHT - Twitch Founder Justin Kan vs UFC Fighter Hyder Amil | Tech Summit + AfterParty - 9/26 

Coding with AI Hackathon - 9/26

The Future of Space and AI @ Google HQ - 9/26 

✨Fullstack Agents Hackathon (Feat LlamaIndex, CopilotKit, Composio & Microsoft) - 9/27 

Scrappy Founders Go Hiking (dog-friendly!) - 9/27

AI Open-Air Weekend Mixer: Startups × Investors - 9/27 

Bay Area Columbia Alumni Meetup: AI + Healthcare - 9/27 

TEDxMilpitas 2025 - 9/28

Scrappy Founders Go Karting - 9/28 

AGI Builders Meetup SF w/ Descope - 9/29 

Fintech Startup Pitch Night with JCB, Qlay and Startup Intros - 9/29 

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Austin / San Antonio hub 

AITX Monthly Meetup - 9/23 

FIESTA + Perth Founder Networking & Panel - 9/24 

8th Austin Hardware Meetup @ EOS North America - 9/25 

The AI Space Podcast Presents: Atlas Cloud, Unplugged - 9/25 

Pitch and Run/Walk ATX - 9/26 

Chicago hub

Startup Pitch & Networking in Chicago - 9/25 

CXO INSIGHTS: AI Infrastructure for Financial Services by Supermicro & NVIDIA - 9/25 

Washington D.C. hub

DC Fintech Happy Hour - 9/24

Pitch and Run DC - 9/24 

Techsgiving, Zillow and Salesforce Present: CBC AI In Action Mixer - 9/24 

DCSTW25 Preview Party: Founders & Friends Happy Hour - 9/25 

7BC Venture Capital - VC Insight Panel & Networking Reception - Washington DC - 9/25 

Boston

Fall Kick Off - Founders + Builders Edition - 9/23 

Lab Automators: Investing in the Future of Automated Science - 9/23 

Investor Connect: Pitch & Network Night Boston - 9/24 

Measuring Intelligence with Interactive Benchmarks: ARC Prize Foundation @ MIT - 9/27 

VNTR Investor Roundtable Boston - 9/29 

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

Los Angeles hub

Mindful Mornings: The Entrepreneur's Inner Temple - 9/23 

Creative Frontiers - 9/23 

LA Founder Summit: From Vision to Venture - 9/24 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Los Angeles - 9/24 

Tapas & Tales: HHM Celebración - 9/24 

Startup Cafe: How to Battle - 9/24 

Power Without Permission – Official Book Launch & Signing by Andreas Pettersson & 13 extraordinary women leaders across industries - 9/25 

Cars & Capital | Presented by CarClub & Maserati - 9/25 

AI trivia night! by OpenAI & SignalFire - 9/26

The LA Grind: LA Startup Community Hike - 9/27 

AI LA Life Summit 2025 - 9/27 

Founders Running Club :: Los Angeles - 9/27 

Miami hub

Startup Pitch & Networking in Miami - 9/24 

Miami Fall FinTech Rooftop Mixer & Fireside Chat - 9/25 

Founders Running Club :: Miami - 9/27 

Amsterdam hub

The Amsterdam Startup Meetup 2025 - 9/22 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Amsterdam - 9/23 

GenAI Innovators Amsterdam - 9/24 

Techex - 9/24 

Crypto Drinks - Amsterdam - 9/24 

Climate Coffee Amsterdam - September - 9/25 

MCP Builder Breakfast: Toast and Tool Calls - 9/25

Inside Duna’s GTM: A Session with Duco van Lanschot - 9/25 

Amsterdam Data Design Den #2 - 9/25 

🤖 Top Bot: A Tech Makers Hackathon for Everyone - 9/26 

Founders Running Club :: Amsterdam - 9/27

Cannes hub

Paris hub

Daytona, Lago, Neo4j & Koyeb AI Builders - Paris, September '25 - 9/22 

AI Engineer Paris Conference - 9/23 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Paris - 9/23 

Git Together #4 - AI Engineer side event - 9/23 

AI Engineer Paris - 9/24 

Builders Night: BBS x Team1 - 9/24 

Controversy "What if we relearned how to construct our disagreements to escape the culture of clash and avoidance?" with L'IFs - 9/24 

Conférence de Luc Julia, par KRYPTOSPHERE - 9/25

Orygeen meeting around the book "Climate chaos is not inevitable" with Jean-Francois Rial and Matthieu Belloir - 9/25 

Founders & Investors Connect - 9/25 

How lemlist broke through the $15M ARR plateau - 9/25 

Conversation with Frédéric Favrot, General Director of Toopi Organics - 9/26 

{Tech: Europe} Paris AI Hackathon - 9/27 

Founders Running Club :: Paris - 9/27 

Building on the XRP Ledger - 9/29 

Dublin hub

Dell Technologies Forum 2025 - 9/23 

Pitch & Run - Dublin - 9/24 

London hub

 Shaping the Next Age of Innovation in the Material World - 9/18 

AI Native Dev - London Meetup - 9/23 

Startup Pitch & Networking in London - 9/23 

Pups + Prosecco - 9/24 

From pitch to close: navigating the fundraising process - 9/24 

Big Data LDN - 9/24 

London Calling - Estuary x SeattleDataGuy - 9/24 

Beers, Bites & Good Ducking Fun at Big Data London! - 9/24 

From pitch to close: navigating the fundraising process - 9/24

EF x ElevenLabs | After Work Hack - 9/24 

Pitch and Run London - 9/25 

Leaders Roundtable: Preparing Startups for Investment & Exit from Day One - 9/25 

Last Call for Founders: Antler's UK Autumn '25 Residency - 9/25 

Ecommerceexpo - 9/25 

Ultralytics YOLO Vision 2025 - 9/25 

VNTR Investor Tennis London - 9/25 

Terra.do x The Green Londoner Climate Social & Quiz - 9/25 

Marked As Urgent x Everything in Moderation - birthday drinks - 9/25 

The Future of Venture Capital: Investing in a World Transformed by AI - 9/25 

Founders Running Club :: London - 9/27 

Founders Dinner Roulette XL - 9/29

Zurich hub

CV Summit 2025 - 9/23 

Building the Next Generation of Search & AI Experiences - 9/25 

INSPIRE Talk - Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea - 9/25 

Zurich Hackathon - 9/26 

Founders Running Club :: Zurich - 9/27 

Zurich AI Safety Day - 9/27 

Zurich AI Festival Workspace- 9/29

Milan hub
MLOps Community Meetup - MiLanOps #3 - 9/24 

🇮🇹 Amplitude Milan User Meetup - 9/25

Lisbon hub

AI Builders Lisbon - 9/23 

Game Break | SEP 2025 - 9/23 

DemoNightLx - 9/24

Munich hub

Bitsandpretzels - 9/29 

Founders Running Club :: Munich - 9/27

Berlin hub

Build AI Voice Agents for Customer Service - 9/23 

Droidcon - 9/24 

Seed to Harvest #3 Late-Stage: Exit readiness – How to prepare for the big event - 9/24 

Beyond Similarity: Improving Retrieval in RAG - 9/25

Deep Tech Night - 9/25 

Founders Mixer - Berlin - 9/25

Notion for Marketers – Berlin Community Event - 9/25 

Founders Running Club :: Berlin - 9/27

Helsinki hub

Go Global Cocktail Hour by Brancoy & Global-e - 9/23 

Founders Running Club :: Helsinki - 9/27

Montreal hub

Female Founders Networking Breakfast - 9/23 

DÉMO DAY 2025 | NEXT AI MONTRÉAL - 9/23 

Caffeine AI Montreal - 9/23 

AI Salon Montreal #8- 9/25

Toronto hub

MakersLounge Toronto Meetup #3 | 🧠 The AI Collective Toronto - 9/22 

Ecom North Toronto Conference | For Canadian eCommerce Brands - 9/23 

Bitget 7th Anniversary Celebration - 9/24

[111] Speaker Series: Inside The VC Mind with Laura Huang - 9/25

Toronto Coffee Club | B2B Tech Founders & Funders - 9/26 

NYC Coffee Club | Vertical AI Founders & Funders - 9/26 

APIs & IPAs Touches Grass September - 9/27 

AgeTech in the Park: A Co-Design Meetup - 9/27 

TechTO Hackathon - 9/27 

VC Gals Get Cozy! 🍂 - 9/29

São Paulo | Rio hub

 Founders Mixer - Sao Paulo - 9/26 

Founders Running Club :: Rio de Janeiro - 9/27

Buenos Aires hub

Founders Running Club :: Buenos Aires - 9/27 

Startups Festival - Buenos Aires - 9/29

Mexico City hub

Databricks DevConnect | Mexico City, Mexico - 9/22 

EmpowHer HealthTech - 9/24 

LaFamilia CDMX: HHM Celebración - 9/25 

Open Padel C - Level - 9/26 

Dubai hub

Turning a Vision into a Venture - 9/22 

Meet NSDubai - 9/23 

AI MATCHMAKING | THURSDAY | MAMA SHELTER BAR | BUSINESS BAY - 9/25 

Founders Running Club :: Dubai - 9/27

Tel Aviv hub

Hong Kong hub

Web3: The Next Generation of Real-Time intelligence - 9/22 

AI x Web3: Supercharging Startups with Intelligence - 9/28 

Singapore hub

Network School x Molecule Residency | Day1: Problems in Science & Intro to DeSci - 9/22

Can AI Handle Your Multilingual Needs? - 9/23 

The Singapore Edition Hotel, Singapore - 9/23

Three Reasons Being Smart can Hurt you as a Founder - FSO Speaker Series - 9/24 

The One About LLMs in Practice II (ft. OCBC AI Lab) - 9/24 

AI Agents, anyone? - 9/26 

Pre-Token2049 Dev Meetup - 9/27 

AI Capital Connect x VC Vault X The Capital Circle: AI & Web3 Investor Meetup - 9/29 

Verifying Intelligence: Where ZK Meets AI - 9/29 

Whitepaper Reading @ House of ZK - 9/29 

Ignition S4: Demo Day - 9/29 

The Great AngelHack Tee-Off ⛳ - 9/29 

Institutional DeFi Mixer by OKX & Definitive Finance - 9/29 

Proof of Vibes Club - Good Vibes Only - 9/29 

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia hub

Designing for Humans – Building Inclusive Tech Products - 9/27

Sydney hub

AI Unscripted Series: Experience AI agents at work with Manoj Agarwal - 9/23 

Founders Mixer - Sydney - 9/26 

Founders Mixer - London - 9/26 

Hack the Batch: AI Hackathon - 9/27 

Sydney | AI Builder Co-working x S&C- 9/28

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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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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