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Here’s what’s on the Yorkseed radar this week.

Last week, we brought together a curated group of growth stage AI founders and accredited investors in New York City for an intimate breakfast roundtable hosted at Nixon Peabody LLP.

The conversation moved across the AI stack, from Physical AI and robotics to AI infrastructure, foundation models and AI applications, with founders and investors exchanging perspectives on product-market fit, enterprise adoption, fundraising, emerging opportunities and where capital is moving next.

We intentionally kept the room small. No pitches, no panels and no traditional networking mixer. Just one table, thoughtful conversations and people who were genuinely building and investing in the space.

A huge thank you to Nixon Peabody LLP, and to everyone who joined us and contributed to the conversation.

And this conversation is continuing. Next stop: Yorkseed Frontier Day at The Engine in Cambridge on September 17. 🤖

This summer has been one of the busiest chapters Yorkseed has had so far. We launched Yorkseed House in New York, went even bigger in Paris, introduced Valois by Yorkseed, continued building Yorkseed Connect, and started going much deeper into Physical AI, robotics, Deep Tech and Frontier Tech.

But there’s a bigger update behind all of this:

For those who have known Yorkseed primarily through our events, community and global hubs, there’s something important we want to clarify:

Yorkseed is not an event company.

Events are still a big part of what we do, and they probably always will be. They bring people together, create serendipity and turn online relationships into real ones. But events are now only one layer of what Yorkseed is building.

Over the last three years, we’ve evolved from a community and ecosystem operator into a multi-dimensional venture ecosystem connecting founders, investors, capital and opportunities across physical and digital environments.

🌎 Yorkseed Network
Our global relationship layer, spanning 50+ hubs and connecting founders, investors, fund managers and ecosystem leaders across cities and markets.

🏠 Yorkseed House & Experiences
Our physical layer. We create temporary homes and curated experiences around major global technology and venture moments, bringing the Yorkseed ecosystem together in real life.

💻 Yorkseed Connect
Our technology layer and multi-dimensional venture platform, bringing together member discovery, Connection Intelligence, deal flow, diligence, warm introductions and venture intelligence.

🥂 Valois by Yorkseed
Our private capital layer for family offices, GPs, LPs, fund managers, institutional investors and other principals who allocate and manage capital at scale.

🤖 Yorkseed Frontier
Our growing focus on Physical AI, robotics, Deep Tech and the founders, investors, researchers and institutions building technologies that move intelligence beyond the screen and into the physical world.

💰 Yorkseed Capital | Next Phase
Our future capital arm, designed to extend Yorkseed beyond connecting founders and investors toward participating more directly in the capital ecosystem.

🚀 Yorkseed Venture Studio | Next Phase
Our venture-building layer, where we’ll work with selected founders and companies and leverage the Yorkseed ecosystem, network, infrastructure and talent to help build and grow new ventures.

These aren’t meant to become seven disconnected Yorkseed projects.

They are different dimensions of the same ecosystem.

Network + Technology + Capital + Venture Building + Experiences.

A founder might first discover Yorkseed through an event, become part of our network, use Connect to build relationships or raise capital, have an opportunity surfaced to relevant investors through Valois, or eventually build alongside the Venture Studio.

An investor might meet us through a Yorkseed House, discover companies through Connect, participate in Frontier, join a Valois gathering, or eventually invest alongside Yorkseed Capital.

That interconnectedness is what we’re building toward.

The events you see are not the end product.

They’re where the infrastructure comes to life.

Yorkseed House, Frontier Day, our roundtables, dinners, salons and global activations give people a reason to step out from behind LinkedIn profiles and actually build relationships.

Connect can then give those relationships context and continuity. Valois creates a more private environment for capital. Frontier brings together communities around specific emerging technologies. The next layers will allow us to participate even more directly in the companies and opportunities emerging from the ecosystem.

It’s sometimes hard to believe that Yorkseed started with a side-event spreadsheet during SXSW and side joke that went viral in 2023.

Today, we’re building across 50+ global hubs, bringing Yorkseed House to major technology conferences, developing our own venture technology, building a private capital network, expanding into Frontier Tech, and preparing our next chapters in capital and venture building.

We’re still experimenting. We’re still learning. And we’re definitely still building.

But one principle hasn’t changed:

The right room can change the trajectory of a company, a fund, a career, or even a life.

Our job is to keep creating those rooms and, now, to build the infrastructure around them.

Welcome to the next chapter of Yorkseed. 🌱

On September 17, Yorkseed is heading to Cambridge for Yorkseed Frontier Day, bringing together founders, investors, researchers and industry leaders across Physical AI, robotics, Deep Tech, Digital AI and capital.

We’re excited to host Frontier Day at The Engine, created by MIT in 2016 and now a nonprofit incubator and accelerator supporting Tough Tech companies working to commercialize breakthrough science and engineering. Its ecosystem spans robotics, autonomous systems, AI, quantum, advanced manufacturing, biotech, climate and other frontier technologies, making it a natural home for Frontier Day.

We’re expecting a highly curated group of investors, founders, industry leaders and VIP guests, with company showcases, live demonstrations, curated founder and investor conversations, and opportunities to meet some of the people building and backing the next generation of technology.

📍 September 17 | The Engine, Cambridge
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Boston is just the beginning for Yorkseed Frontier.

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August 26th - August 31st, 2026

Austin / San Antonio hub

Frontier Build ATX: Build your Autonomous Code Factory - 8/27

Wake Up! CPG Austin - 8/27

Austin International Founders Meetup - 8/27

Bay Area hub

Decagon x Centralize: GTM Summer Mixer - 8/26

A Private Evening with Bryan Johnson and Sarah Guo at Baseten - 8/26

Step SF 2026: The AI & Tech Startup Festival - 8/27

Personalized Health Showcase w/ YC S26 - 8/27

Coffeehouse by Ode with Anthropic - 8/27

VIP Investors-Only Dinner - 8/27

MEMORY LEAK - FOUNDER+VC HAPPY HOUR - 8/27

Demo Night SF: Ship AI Apps with Anthropic + Postman + Supabase + Vercel - 8/27

Gallery After Dark: Merge x Eragon x Corgi Founders Happy Hour - 8/27

Neurotech South Bay Summer Mixer! - 8/27

Stablecoin Speakeasy - 8/27

Open Source AI Summit SF - 8/28

Himalaya Robotics Hack - 8/29

Boston hub

Agent builders night - 8/27

AI Researchers & Founders Happy Hour @ BASE-X - 8/31

Yorkseed Frontier Day · Boston - 9/17

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Chicago hub

☕️ 1 Million Cups Chicago ☕️ - 8/26

Los Angeles hub

Fireside Chat with Thomas Laffont - 8/27

Solana Summer House - 8/27

Miami hub

Women in Miami Tech August Happy Hour - 8/26

NYC hub

[NYC] Idea to MVP Workshop: Build Night with Lovable - 8/26

CoClaude & CoWork NYC (Ops Edition) - 8/26

Workshop Wednesday: Founder-Led Growth: How to Build a LinkedIn Content Engine - 8/26

Build Your First App with Replit! - 8/26

Astoria Tech Meetup #57 @ Our House Queens - 8/26

NYC AI Co-working: Builder Demos & Feedback - 8/27

ASRC CAT x HB x Activate NY August Innovators Social - 8/27

Bitcoin Developers’ Socratic Seminar 161 - 8/27

Building a Unified AI Workspace Across Enterprise Data | NYC - 8/27

NYC Founders & Operators: Rooftop Social - 8/27

Tech Happy Hour by Startup Grind - 8/28

The Builders' Table - 8/30

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

Washington D.C. hub

Washington, DC - Entreprenista x Maman - 8/26

Sustainable Urbanization DC Happy Hour - 8/26

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

Montreal hub

Portes ouvertes | The startup trivia night. - 8/26

Toronto hub

Toronto Robotics Night - 8/27

Pride Pitch Competition - 8/27

Amsterdam hub 

Build Café - 8/26

Barcelona Funding at the Frontier: hosted by ARIA, Nucleate Spain, and ATG SynBio Spain - 8/26

Barcelona hub

{Tech: Europe} x Cala Hackathon | The Summer Lock-In - 8/26

Berlin hub

TailscaleUp - The flagship conference for engineering, security, and IT leaders - 8/26

Deep Tech Night: Quantum & Photonics - 8/27

Hacker Room Demo Day - 8/27

South Asian Founders Meetup #8 & Incubator Program launch - 8/27

Confidence built to last (for Founders & Start-up Operators) - Deep Work x Factory Berlin - 8/27

Cannes hub

Copenhagen hub

Nordic Founder Run @ TechBBQ - 8/26

unlock VC Breakfast: Female Founders & Investors - 8/26

European Foundation Impact Investing Summit - 8/26

A Bite of Breakthroughs. A deeptech-focused TechBBQ Side Event — hosted by NordicNinja, PSV & DLA Piper 🍣 - 8/26

Builders & Brews w/ byFounders @ TechBBQ - 8/26

Deep Tech Founders Dinner: US Expansion - 8/26

Nordic Cafe Compute: TechBBQ after party - 8/26

Barry’s Morning Bootcamp: Female Investors @TechBBQ - 8/27

🪑Even seats: Long table breakfast by Even Founders - 8/27

Royal Reception with HRH Prince Joachim | TechBBQ - Defence & Dual Use - 8/27

HealthTech Breakfast @TechBBQ 2026 - 8/27

Defence Tech & Cyber Arena - 8/27

Policy Stage - Danish Entrepreneurs x TechBBQ - 8/27

Hackathon Winners Celebration Party at TECHBBQ - 8/27

Summer at Atlas People, TechBBQ afterparty - 8/27

Dublin hub

Dublin Startup Summer Party - 8/27

Daytona & Give(a)Go HackSprint - 8/29

AI Founders Tour 🇮🇪 - NomadÉire Powered by Lovable - 9/2

Helsinki hub

FiBAN Pitch Finland with Elo - 8/27

The SPLASH! Forum - 8/28

Techtalk - 8/28

Stripe x Lāhde GTM Night - 8/28

HHJ Exit 2026/09 Helsinki - 9/1

Lisbon hub

The $1B Solo Founder: Build Your Startup With AI Agents - 8/27

London hub

Summer Sundown Social @ the Hub - 8/26

Tech & Tonic | Summer Drinks - 8/26

AI Demo Nights - 8/26

Work in Fintech AI Summit 2026 - 8/28

Cantor8 London Hackathon - 8/29

Hardware Hack Day - 8/30

Milan hub

Munich hub

Entrepreneur Meetup _ Unternehmertreffen in München - 9/15

Paris hub

tbc(afé) Paris - 8/28

Stockholm hub

För-orten Hackathon - 8/26

Zurich hub

Open vs. Closed Models: How the next Gen of Startups will be built. Hosted by Snowflake, AWS & DataMax. - 8/27

Buenos Aires hub

OWASP Buenos Aires - Meetup #3 - 8/25

Shopify Business Breakfast - 8/26

Birra & Pitch - CABA - 8/26

Y-Talks: Daniel Yankelevich - 8/27

Superteam Argentina - Launch Party - 8/28

Tecnologías para la Transición Climática - 9/4

Mexico City hub

Mexico City | Claude for Finance - 8/26

AWSpectrum Impact Lab — Construye tecnología con impacto real - 8/27

Mexico City | Claude for Legal - 8/27

Organizaciones del presente: Innovación, talento y conexiones para competir en la próxima década - 8/27

Fuckup Nights. House of Fuckups - 9/2

São Paulo | Rio hub

Redesenho organizacional das empresas - como a IA define o mercado de trabalho? - 8/26

Oficina de Fabricação Digital - 8/27

Builders Camp Pocket SP - 8/29

Rio de Janeiro | Claude Impact Lab - 8/30

Beyond AI: Governança e Risco - 9/1

Tech Grid 2026 - 9/16

Tel Aviv hub

Demo Day - Cohort 6, Genesis - 9/2

UAE hub

Founder Series: Authority - Digital Edition - 8/27

Peak XV Open House: Dubai🚀 - 8/28

Hong Kong hub

Qwen Conference Hong Kong 2026 - 8/26

Building the Low-Latency AI Trading Ecosystem - 8/26

Summer Mixer @ Bitcoin Asia week | Hedge Fund x VC x Silicon Valley - 8/26

AI & Crypto: Global Asset Allocation - 8/27

THE PAYMENT LAYER FOR THE AGENT ECONOMY - 8/27

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia hub

AI Video Hackathon KL 2026 - 9/6

Singapore hub

Ventures After Hours (Get Roasted!) - 8/25

Stripe Startups Build Day Singapore - 8/25

Startup Revenue: How to Avoid Desperation and Achieve Alignment - FSO Speaker Series - 8/26

Marina Bay Sands - Women Leadership Conference - 8/27-8/29

AI Safety Social - 8/28

Young Entrepreneurs Mixer Roundtable! - 8/29

Daytona HackSprint Singapore - 8/29

SMU FinTech Networking Night 2026 - 9/1

Sydney hub

Sydney Founders Coffee Meetup - Gandel Invest x One Ventures - 8/27

Come steal these AI-deas 🤫 Live AI demos & Agent builds: how to build your own for People & Talent teams - 8/27

AI Salon Sydney | Building AI with Trust & Security - 8/27

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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

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For partnerships, event features, or collaborations:
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❤️ 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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