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

You do not need to already have Web Summit planned.

If Lisbon was not on your calendar yet, this might be the reason to put it there.

This November, Yorkseed is bringing a curated group of founders and investors to Lisbon for Web Summit week, November 8 to 12.

The idea is simple: come to Lisbon with a group, not by yourself.

You can join the Yorkseed Lisbon Delegation whether you already have a Web Summit ticket, are still deciding, or simply want to be in Lisbon for the people, meetings, and side events happening across the city. You do not need a Web Summit ticket to join.

And if you have no idea what is happening outside the main conference, we have that covered too. Delegates get access to our master Lisbon side event list, so you can see what is happening across the city and build your week around the events and people that matter to you.

We kick off on November 8, the day before Web Summit opens. You will meet the other delegates, join our private WhatsApp group, and stay connected throughout the week through Yorkseed meetups, gatherings, and introductions.

You will also get 25% off Yorkseed's Web Summit Capital and Executive Lunches.

Where there is a genuine fit, Yorkseed will try to introduce you to investors, founders, partners, and others in our network who may be relevant to what you are building. We make introductions personally. We cannot guarantee a specific meeting, but we will do our best to connect the right people.

Participating companies can have their own profile in the Yorkseed Lisbon Deal Book.

Your page can show what you are building, who you want to meet, your founder and company information, and a QR code for people to connect with you. The Deal Book will be shared across the Yorkseed network during Web Summit week and stay online after Lisbon. People can also browse the delegation and request to meet participating delegates.

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Tell us who you want to meet and why the conversation could be relevant.

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We review each request and share relevant ones with the delegate.

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If there is a fit, they can contact you directly and take the conversation from there.

Founders receive six months of Yorkseed Connect to continue building relationships after the trip.

Delegates also receive KoiCard access, including 300 scans from November 5 to November 18, so you can turn the business cards and QR codes you collect in Lisbon into contacts you can actually follow up with. Selected founders will also be considered for our Global Founder Showcase in December, where they can present to invited investors, including investors who were not in Lisbon.

Yorkseed Lisbon Delegation
November 8 to 12, 2026

Apply to join: https://yorkseed.co/lisbon-delegation

See you in Lisbon 🇵🇹

The Yorkseed Team

If you’re hosting an event during any of these weeks and would like Yorkseed to come on as a co-host or community partner, email us.

Partner events will be featured across the relevant Yorkseed Master Side Event List and shared with our community. We’re also continuing to add new events, so if you know of one we should include, send it our way.

We’re currently welcoming sponsors, venue partners, hospitality partners, and strategic collaborators across the Lisbon program.

Partners can participate in individual experiences or explore opportunities across the broader Yorkseed Web Summit week from Web Summit Kickoff Party to Executive, Capital, Allocator Lunches and panels, workshop + Investor Founders Mixers …

Interested in partnering with us? We can send our deck over!
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Heading to Lisbon? Stay tuned. The full Yorkseed calendar is rolling out now. 🇵🇹

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

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.

Lisbon is next. 🇵🇹

We’re actively rolling out the Yorkseed Web Summit Lisbon calendar, with a week of curated experiences bringing together founders, investors, executives, GPs, LPs, family offices, and the wider global tech ecosystem.

Expect executive lunches, investor and allocator gatherings, founder meetups, intimate dinners, and our signature Web Summit night out, with more announcements coming soon.

For US farm, ranch and small business owners.

Airlines hedge fuel. Food companies hedge crops. For decades, protecting a business from outcomes it can't control took a broker, a trading desk and an order size most owners never had.

Kalshi opens hedging up to small businesses. Pick the outcome that would hurt you, like a fuel spike, a heat wave, a new tariff or a rate hike, and take a position on it, starting at a few dollars. If it happens, the payout offsets the hit. If it doesn't, the contract expires and the good month was the point.

A California goat herder and a Maryland tea company already do it, and CNBC, Reuters and The New York Times have covered businesses hedging on Kalshi.

Kalshi is a federally regulated exchange.

See how other owners hedge

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October 19th - October 26th 2026

Austin / San Antonio hub

Grok Bot Hackathon in Austin, TX - 10/19

Out in Tech Austin: October Mixer - 10/20

ClickHouse x Google x Brainforge - 10/21

Meridian October: Quarterly Showcase of AI in Deep Tech - Health - 10/21

Meet Manus 2.0 | After Hours 🍺👻 - 10/21

Tech Talks | Austin Tech Week - 10/26

Bay Area hub

Cline, Parallel, & Composio Hackathon - 10/19

AI agents to scale your startup - 10/19

Filipinos in AI - Let's Meet - 10/19

PyTorch, Powering the Enterprise - 10/19

Open Source AI Week 2026 | Open Weight Debate Night - 10/19

THE SF DATABASE MEETUP: October - 10/19

AI Infra Night @PyTorchCon with dstack, Crusoe, and SGLang - 10/20

Founders Panel: The Agentic Stack - 10/20

Daytona & Oracle AI Builders - SF, October 2026 - 10/20

Lightning AI Fireside Chat & Happy Hour @ PyTorch Conference - 10/20

Startup Sprint: Prove you're fundable - 10/21

Lessons from Open Source DevTools Founders w/ PostHog, Cline and more - 10/21

Boos in Biotech Happy Hour - 10/22

AGNTCon + MCPCon North America - 10/22

Open Source AI Summit SF - 10/22

Step 5 Preview Launch Night 🚀 & AI Founders Meetup @SF - 10/22

Beta Fund X AWS X OpenAI Multi-Model Hackathon - 10/23

Emergent - VibeCon SF 2026: Vibecode Your Way to a YC Interview - 10/24

Hack for Social Impact 2026 - 10/24

Boston hub

Mentor Matching for Early-Stage Founders - 10/19

Singapore MedTech Showcase - 10/21

Greater China AI Showcase - 10/22

Flagship Pioneering: Startup Trek - 10/22

ARC Prize Research Summit 2026 - 10/23

Boston Hard Tech Summit - 10/26

Reshoring Rare Earths: Fireside Chat with Phoenix Tailings (+Startup Showcase) - 10/26

Biotech VC Happy Hour & Speed Pitch w/ Judges from 5AM, Lilly Ventures, and Curie.Bio Breakout Fund - 10/26

Tough Tech Week Kickoff - 10/26

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Chicago hub

Reinventing Industry: Future of Health - 10/21

OpenAI Forum Chicago - 10/29

Los Angeles hub

Shift SC Tech4Good Conference - 10/19

DTLA Tech Happy Hour - 10/21

Originals Summit // Los Angeles 2026 - 10/23

Miami hub

hack night v0.183 - Wynwood - 10/20

hack night v0.184 - South Beach - 10/22

Miami AI Summit - 10/23

NYC hub

Claude & Chill for Founders & Creators - 10/19

The Apps Capital Cowork - 10/19

Sail & Scale: The RAGA Launch Cruise by Paddle - 10/19

Growth Gems & Screw-Ups - 10/19

AI app founders dinner - 10/19

Spirits Night: A Growth Leaders Happy Hour - 10/19

Women in Apps Brunch - 10/20

Dinner for App Founders · NY App Week - 10/20

The Human Edge: A Founders Salon for the Age of AI - 10/20

(H)Appy Hour - NY App Week with Botsi - 10/20

App Founders Dinner · NY App Week - 10/20

GTM Intelligence: AI Night with Ramp + MeritFirst - 10/20

Up/Link: The SpaceTech Business Summit - 10/20

AI Agents Build Day with Genspark - 10/20

Inside the Loop with Mercor: RL Environments, Benchmarks, and Evals - 10/20

Built in Person: How Great Companies Scale IRL - 10/21

The Startup Pitch: Demo Showcase by Startup Grind - 10/21

Nanonite Social: NYC Nanotechnology Meetup - 10/22

Startup Scaries - 10/22

Appstore Connect - NYC - 10/22

Startup Scaries - 10/22

Tech Shabbat | NY - 10/23

AI & Fintech XRPL Hackathon in New York - 10/24

Deal Flow: NYC's First VC Hackathon @ Betaworks - 10/24

Future Reality AI Film Festival (NYC)-Film × Advertising × Creative Technology Screenings · Awards · Industry Leaders Networking - 10/25

Business Funding - an International Perspective - 10/26

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

Washington D.C. hub

Accelerating America’s AI Future - 10/19

Data Viz DC: An Interactive Introduction to Data Physicalization with Jon Schwabish - 10/21

Engineering Your Capital Strategy: Fundraising by Design - 10/26

DC Founders & Funders Open House - 10/27

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

Montreal hub

Open House: Base 2027 - 10/20

Portes ouvertes La base 2027 - 10/20

🩷 Official Lovable x Stripe Montréal Community - Build It, Then Automate Getting Your First Users - 10/21

Fintech Social Montréal - 10/21

Toronto hub

International Entrepreneur Meetup: Global Startup Exchange - 10/19

HANDM(AI)DE: Where AI Meets the Human Hand - 10/20

Toronto Coffee Club | Early-Stage B2B Founders & Funders - 10/21

ELF X HIMSS Pre-Conference Social - 10/21

Spanning the Seed to Series A Valley of Death – Strategies for Scaling Canadian Biotechs - 10/22

Startup Pitch Events Toronto: 5 Founders on Stage - 10/22

Techify AI Summit 201: Beyond the Basics - 10/23

Toronto Tech Community Coffee Meetup - 10/24

The Tech Festival Canada 2026 | Meet, Build, Scale - 10/26

Pitch Night & Meetup - MLVC x Rootly AI - 10/26

Amsterdam hub 

Tech Careers in the Netherlands: How to Get In - 10/20

How to Raise in the Era of AI: Founder & Investor Panel - 10/21

A Modern App Development Meetup - 10/22

Evening of technical talks on Apache Flink® in production - 10/23

IKEAthon Amsterdam #1 - 10/24

Invest in Brazil - Where Impact Meets Scale - 10/26

Barcelona hub

Technology and the climate crisis – what can we do in Barcelona? - 10/19

Barcelona | Workshop (Women in Tech) - 10/21

Barcelona | Claude for Everyone Meetup - 10/22

Barcelona | Claude & Coffee (Women in Tech) - 10/24

Berlin hub

Nebius Build Week Hackathon in partnership with NVIDIA - 10/18

Regenerating the Future — A Blueprint for Prosperity - 10/20

UNCONFERENCE: Engineering AI Together #11 - 10/20

Building At the Frontier of AI - 10/21

Inference on Tap: Berlin @ NVIDIA GTC - 10/21

iOS Engineering Meetup, Ampli x N26 - 10/21

UNTERGRUND, An evening for AI leaders building the next generation of open source - 10/21

NVIDIA GTC AFTERPARTY - 10/22

Getting Hired in AI Engineering - 10/22

Cannes hub

Copenhagen hub

Inside the Mind of David Helgason @ The Shack - 10/20

Your Agent is Too Expensive: Taking Control of Your AI Bill - 10/22

"Listen. We Need to Talk" - An AI breakfast on voice agents with Heyra, ElevenLabs and Lovable - 10/23

Dublin hub

Helsinki hub

Upright Project Founder Story - 10/19

Founder Funding 1: How does fundraising work in hardware startups? - 10/20

Lisbon hub

Fintech x Crypto - 10/21

Climate Mixer: October Edition - 10/29

London hub

SEV0 - The reliability conference (LDN) - 10/20

Profound Platform Deep Dive - 10/21

Agentic AI in Financial Services and Insurance: Pilot to Production - 10/22

Innovation at CSM: Beyond the Scroll - 10/22

Grok Bot Community Engineering London Hackathon - 10/22

Company Brain Buildathon - 10/24

Milan hub

Milan | Claude Code for Developers - 10/22

New Money Forum - 10/29

Munich hub

Choose Your Climate Future: The En-ROADS Climate Solutions Workshop - 10/19

Life after Microplastics: Breakfast & Pitches - 10/20

ESG Circle Hub EY x WWF: Geopolitics Meets Sustainability - New Rules for Resilient Corporate Management - 10/20

Oxbridge Ivy League MIT "Climate Speed Dating" - 10/20

DeepTech & The Planet - Vanagon Investors Rooftop Lunch - 10/20

The Water Resilience Stage - Policy, Capital, and Technology for a Water-Resilient Capital - 10/20

Women In Climate Tech Dinner - 10/20

Code + Capital — Reimann Investors VC x TNG Technology Consulting - 10/21

Breakfast Talk - The State of European AgriFood Innovation - 10/23

Next Level of Climate Tech Vol. IV - Munich Climate Week Edition - 10/23

WATT THE HACK : Energy & AI Hackathon - 10/24

AI for Nature Hackathon - 10/24

Paris hub

ElevenLabs Startup Meetup Paris - 10/20

La Violence en héritage - 10/20

Workout tpc x Eiffel Founders - 10/20

Stripe Startups: Build Day Paris - 10/21

Paris Accel’s AI Innovate Series Hackathon - 10/22

Longevity Event - Plug and Play France - 10/22

Matinée découverte @Climate House - 10/23

Stockholm hub

Proxify Talks: AI meets reality: From AI potential to real-world impact - 10/19

Climate Resilience in the Age of AI – An Evening with Innovators - 10/20

Zurich hub

Swisspreneur Padel Tournament - 10/21

Buenos Aires hub

Mexico City hub

Mexico City | Claude for AI Engineering - 10/19

Mexico City | Claude in the Senate of the Republic - 10/20

ELEVATE Shopify Summit México 2026 - 10/21

São Paulo | Rio hub

Petit Salon: Astella & Endurance on AI Investing - 10/20

AI Salon Rio #16 - 10/20

Networking Night Rio - 10/21

DevDay Exchange Community: Rio de Janeiro - 10/24

Tel Aviv hub

Product Design & AI | Descope x Elementor - 10/20

What's Next in AI GTM? ft. ElevenLabs - 10/20

Cracking the Seed Round - 10/21

DevDay Exchange Community: Tel Aviv - 10/21

Secure Agents. Autonomous Ops. - 10/22

The Israeli DefenseTech Innovation Day 2026 - 10/25

Imagen Dev Meetup - 10/25

UAE hub

AI Builders and Databases Dubai - 10/22

GDG DevFest 2026 - 10/24

Hong Kong hub

Spacetech & Startups by What You Building & ContraVC - 10/22

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia hub

Show & Tell @TheMalaysian.ai Residency: Growth Edition - 10/22

AI, Actually | From Global Strategy to Local Realities - 10/27

Singapore hub

Claude for Marketing - 10/19

AI Labs Singapore - 10/20

AI Salon Singapore (21 October 2026) - 10/21

Founders & investors evening: How to make Singapore your launchpad to global growth - 10/21

Cybersecurity in the Age of AI - 10/22

Techies x SGInnovate Tech Talk: New Dev Roles in the AI era - 10/22

Does AI Hold Space in Sustainability? - 10/22

Founder House Singapore - 10/23

The California Experience – SWITCH 2026 Pre-Event - 10/26

Sydney hub

Codex & Astra Builder Day | Sydney - 10/20

Sydney Founder Mornings - Gandel Invest x Square Peg - 10/23

HarbourHack - 10/23

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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!

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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.

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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