Busy weeks are coming — Here’s what’s on the Yorkseed radar this week.

Yorkseed is officially launching its dedicated NY Tech Week platform — a centralized, high-signal event directory designed for founders, investors, and operators navigating the week.

A single destination covering the full New York Tech Week window from May 27 to June 8, bringing together the most relevant gatherings across the ecosystem.

What Makes This Different

The platform pulls from across the entire ecosystem:

Yorkseed has been building master side event lists since 2023 across global conferences including World Economic Forum Davos, ETHDenver, VivaTech Paris, and Web Summit. They consistently become the most shared resource during the week because they solve a real problem discovery, trust, and access.

This year, that same product evolves into a permanent NY Tech Week platform with its own dedicated home.

This is how you navigate the week with intention.

Visibility during NY Tech Week is no longer optional. It is competitive.

Yorkseed is opening a limited number of placements designed to position the right events and brands in front of a highly targeted audience.

Feature Your Event
Priority placement, Yorkseed verification badge, and distribution across Yorkseed channels reaching thousands of founders and investors.

Logo Sponsorship
Persistent brand visibility across the platform, not just during the week but extending through the full year cycle into the next NY Tech Week.

Explore the full NY Tech Week 2026 Master Side Event List
Bookmark it. Share it. Use it throughout the week.

https://nytw.yorkseed.co

As the ecosystem moves beyond SXSW, Yorkseed continues across global cities — where founders, investors, and operators reconnect, follow up, and build what comes next.

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As always, we only share carefully curated events for founders and investors in this newsletter.

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We are opening a limited number of strategic partners for New York Tech Week and VivaTech.

Yorkseed is hosting a series of private, curated gatherings for founders and investors, while continuing to expand our platform where members actively connect, transact, and access high-signal opportunities.

Across New York Tech Week, we are curating a focused set of experiences, including:
• Venture Salons for founders and investors
• Beauty Tech gathering
• Private Funders Dinner
• Cross-border capital raising and investing conversations

During VivaTech Paris, we are hosting a blockchain-focused event while also curating a series of additional gatherings across the week, including non-blockchain focused experiences.

This is a selective partnership opportunity across:
• Curated events in New York, Paris, and global ecosystems
• Integration into the Yorkseed platform and The Vault
• Direct access to a highly vetted network of founders, investors, and operators

We partner with a small number of aligned companies per city, designed for those who want to be embedded in high-trust, high-signal environments.

Apply here: https://tally.so/r/ODJeYk

Selected partners will be invited to schedule a private intro call.

Interested in getting more involved with Yorkseed? https://yorkseed.co/partners

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As the ecosystem continues to grow, we are opening several opportunities across the platform.

Local Hub Directors

We are looking for local hub directors interested in helping grow the ecosystem in their regions.

Yorkseed Summit / Yorkseed House Partners

We are currently exploring collaborations with:

• speakers
• sponsors
• ecosystem partners
• media partners

Strategic Partnerships

Yorkseed welcomes partnerships with venture platforms, coworking spaces, innovation organizations, service providers, and global brands interested in supporting founder and investor ecosystems.

Learn more here:
https://yorkseed.co/#opportunities

F1 Yacht Experiences 2026 (Monaco • Global Series)

We’re opening limited access to a private F1 yacht series curated for a select audience across capital, luxury, and global networks.

Backed by Ferrari, Bonhams, TWW Yachts, and select partners.

🇲🇨 Monaco — June 4–7, 2026

A more intimate, legacy-driven edition positioned around culture, storytelling, and global influence

• historic yacht setting with heritage ties
• women in F1 focus and curated programming
• private wine experience and gastronomy with Manko Paris
• audience: ultra-high-net-worth, luxury, and global cultural circles

Lake Como (May) • Abu Dhabi (December)

We are currently opening:

• a limited number of sponsor placements
• a small allocation of paid guest passes (by selection)

👉 For sponsorship, ticket access or more information
📩 [email protected]

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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, UAE, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Stockholm, 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! ❤️

If you would like to collaborate or sponsor us, please write me at [email protected]

Opportunities in NYC:

Pitching at the Edge — NY Tech Week, June 4

The Edge Observation Deck, NYC. Breathwork reset, fast-paced pitch competition, private breakfast — one morning built around the reality of early-stage company building. Startups competing for up to $1M in funding (late-stage) or a first check + accelerator access (early-stage), led by LVLUP Ventures.

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May 18th - May 25th, 2026

NYC hub

NYC B2B: AI Founders & Investors Meetup - 5/18 

Modern Investor Summit: New York - 5/19 

Pitch & Run - Prospect Park - 5/19 

Direct Agents x Ampd Dinner - 5/19 

SHIFT NYC — Keynotes & Panels - 5/19 

RAID 4: Talks on Research, AI, and Design - 5/19 

🧠 AI Founders Lab with The AI Collective NYC x Avahi - 5/20 

AI Engineers May Tech Talk w/ Harmonic, Hebbia, & Noemica - 5/20 

Pitch & Run - Williamsburg - 5/20 

Pitch & Climb - Brooklyn - 5/20 

Investor Roast Live w/ Right To Invest - 5/20 

UGLY TALK: HOW SMART BRANDS WIN IN A CROWDED AISLE - 5/20 

Founder Dinner - 5/21 

nextNYC VC/Founder Coffee Meetups - 5/21 

NY Vertical AI Summit - 5/21

The AI-Ready Roadshow - NYC - 5/22 

Startup Pitch Night: Like It's 2019 - 5/22 

Pitch and Run Friday - The Original PNR - 5/22 

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

Bay Area hub

San Francisco Vibe Coding PROMPTathon - 5/19

Breakthrough Demo Day - 5/19

SF Awesome AI Dev Tools - May - 5/19

AI Startup Pitch Night with Qlay, Context VC & Startup Intros - 5/19

Monthly Robotics & AI Meetup - 5/19

Daydream Happy Hour @UpscaleConf - 5/19

Family Offices & AI Investors Mixer @ Google I/O - 5/19

SF AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Codename Goose & Anthropic, Cloudflare, Stytch, and Supabase - 5/19

AI founders & operators mixer - 5/20

Private VC / Startup Wine Tasting Mixer - 5/20

10th SJ Hardware Meetup in Mountain View @ AuSIM Garage - 5/20

From The Middle East to the Valley: A Private Dialogue on AI & Global Venture - 5/20

Cafe Compute: Celebration! - 5/20

From Models to Molecules: AI's Expanding Roles in Therapeutics - 5/20

Graph Exchange May 2025: AI Agents and Knowledge Graphs - 5/21

Community-Driven GTM in the Age of AI - 5/21

First Block: From Zero to a Hundred (Million): The Cursor Story with Michael Truell, hosted by Notion - 5/21

Women in AI: How Hex is building the future of data work - 5/21

DSS SF Meetup: From GenAI to Autonomous Data: Building Scalable AI Systems - 5/21

Silicon Valley AI Startups Night - 5/21

AI in Action: Lessons from the Frontlines | Feat. Insight Partners - 5/21

MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models Silicon Valley Lab - Launch Event - 5/22

SSG Accelerator Founders Pitch & Investor Social - 5/22

AI Startup Pitch Night - 5/22

[SF] AI After Hours @ GitHub w/ Encord - 5/22

AI trivia night! by OpenAI, SignalFire & Langflow - 5/22

Fireside Chat: AI Agent + Growth - Scaling from $0 to $15M ARR with Team 9 - 5/22

GenAI Collective: AI Startup Growth - 5/22

MCP Developers Summit - 5/23

Cofounder Matching: Finding the Right Partner - 5/23

AI Founders Go Hiking- 5/24

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Austin / San Antonio hub 

Hack AI x webAI - 5/18

Chicago hub

Chicago Grassroots Tech Community Meetup - May - 5/20 

AI in Finance Roadshow: Chicago Edition - 5/21 

CHI Shiphaus #3 - 5/21 

Chicago Happy Hour with Tailscale, Latacora & Panther - 5/21

Washington D.C. hub

STATION DC Bio Economy Open Roundtable - 5/19 

Boston

 Genspark Claw World Tour - Boston - 5/19 

Boston Founders, This Room Is Yours - 5/20 

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

Los Angeles hub

AI LA in the Valley: Entertainment Meet Up - 5/20 

LA Fintech Connect Happy Hour - Sponsored by Alphapoint - 5/21 

Miami hub

Seaworthy Collective 2026 Startup Showcase - 5/20 

Amsterdam hub 

Amsterdam SEO Salon May 2026 - 5/19 

Light x Lovable x Miro Finance Hackathon - 5/20 

Voice AI Space Amsterdam Meetup - 5/20 

FxF x ADC Consulting - The Finance Circle - 5/21 

Cannes hub

Paris hub

Prompt Club x Kling AI - 5/21 

Yorkseed Paris Spring Social : Founders & Investors Evening - 5/26

Dublin hub

London hub

Pitch and Run London - 5/21 

Create With 2025: AI & Visual Development Conference - 5/22 

London Venture Capital Summit - 5/23 

Official After Party — London Venture Capital Week - 5/23

Zurich hub

Next Frontier AI Application Meet-up - 5/20 

AssetRush x Zurich 2026 - 5/21 

Milan hub

Milan AI Tech Week : Yorkseed Founder & Investor Aperitivo - 5/19

Lisbon hub

AI Builders Lisbon - 5/20 

Munich hub

Berlin hub

 AI4Science Hackathon @ Merantix AI Berlin - 5/18 

NLND Breakfast Club: Pilot to Production with Plug and Play - 5/19 

Berlin Deep Tech Nexus Meetup #11 @ MotionLab.Berlin - 5/19 

European Defense Tech Meetup — Counter-UAS Edition - 5/19 

Deep Tech Momentum 2026 — Europe - 5/20 

Founders Drinks I DTM 2026 - 5/20 

DTM26: Venture Client Dinner & Drinks - 5/20 

Women in Deep Tech Berlin - 5/21 

Croissants & Brezeln — DeepTech Momentum 26' 🥨 🇫🇷 🥐 🇩🇪 - 5/21

Nobody buys deep tech. They buy the future you sell them - 5/21 

Claim Your Spot in the Future: DeepTech Scaling Session - 5/21 

Why So Serious? Automating Everyday Life | Women+ in Automation - 5/21 

Build with AI Hands-On Workshop @ Home24 - 5/22

From Story to Scale: The DeepTech Comms Breakfast - 5/22 

Helsinki hub

Prompt Finance Hackathon - 5/23 

FJCC Startup Sessions: Engaging with Japanese VC & CVC - 5/25

Stockholm hub

Engineering Night with Specific, AWS, Inception Fund - 5/19 

Founder Days - 5/20 

GTM night with Fleet & Tandem, @ Founders House - 5/20 

Founder Fridays - 5/22 

Copenhagen hub

Montreal hub

Toronto hub

Limitless Entrepreneurship: Building Without Burning Out with Mark MacLeod - 5/20 

TechTO Hackathon - 5/24 

CTRL+SHIFT+ART @Welcome TTW - 5/25 

São Paulo | Rio hub

Buenos Aires hub

Mexico City hub

UAE hub

Pitching & Networking | De Bacci Capital Network - 5/20 

Dubai Tech Tuesdays No. 46 - 5/20

✨ Ladies Networking Breakfast is back! - 5/21 

Elite Network Business Luncheon at The Shangri-La - 5/21 

Elite Business Dinner at Secret Bar ✨ - 5/23 

Tel Aviv hub

Hong Kong hub

The Capital Circle| An Evening of Private Capital & Strategic Connections | By Invitation Only - 5/21 

Singapore hub

SIC Catalyst Community Day - 5/19

Singapore Founders Meetup: Work, Money, Belonging, and e-Nations - 5/20 

Ctrl+Alt+Connect Singapore's Biggest Industry Mixer | 20 May’26 - 5/20 

Claude for Finance: Building Your Second Brain - 5/21 

AI Builders & Breakers: Side Quests & Passion Projects - 5/24 

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia hub

Founder F**K ups - 5/20 

Startup Success Foundations: From Idea to Investable Venture - 5/21 

Sydney hub

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Yorkseed Global & Conference Hubs

Our WhatsApp Global Hubs share curated, high-signal events within each city — focused on founders, investors, and tech executives.

Our Conference Hubs are built around major global events, where members exchange invites, coordinate meetups, and access curated side events. We also share master lists of high-quality events, including those without badge requirements.

We are also expanding our local presence and selectively opening up a few city hubs for new organizers. The perks of being a local hub volunteer? You are exposed to high-level individuals, and infinite opportunities will come your way!

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, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Singapore, GIFT City, São Paulo | Rio, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Montreal, Dubai, Malaysia, Zurich, Milan,Tel Aviv, International Hub (All Other Cities)

If you’re interested in hosting, contributing, or building a Yorkseed hub in your city:
https://yorkseed.co/#opportunities

Sounds exciting for you? Write me at [email protected] / Jessica Sophia Wong

❤️ Get more involved in the Yorkseed ecosystem

Join the Yorkseed network database for curated introductions, event access, and cross-market connections:
https://forms.gle/C8uQChh41JknpxPYA

If you’re a founder raising, an investor deploying, or an operator looking to collaborate, you can also submit here:
https://forms.gle/QPekQGaAAqPkonby7

For partnerships, event features, or collaborations:
[email protected]

❤️ Yorkseed Public Database👇 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/101PbxqAMpnSJ44TcCJUp8hl6v2pFXbZnKrtBQ1GzhW0/edit?usp=sharing

If you would like to register in our public database, please fill out the Google form above and select the part where you provide your consent to be on the public list.

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.

Yorkseed curates and maintains a live database of high-signal side events hosted alongside major global tech conferences. Designed for founders, investors, and operators, the spreadsheet helps you navigate key venture moments — from invite-only salons to curated ecosystem gatherings. Stay ahead of the conference noise. Access the rooms that matter.

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