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Raise Ready : Yorkseed x Kairos Circle

🔗 Who’s attending: → Pre-seed to Series A founders → Angels, VCs, and family office investors → Operators and community builders in tech & media

​💡 What to expect: → Light programming on “How to Prepare for a Fall Fundraise” → Curated drinks, small bites, and soft intros → Private, invite-only setting to make real connections. Spots are limited—RSVP to join the room where funding conversations begin.

A curated global lineup of founder-and-investor-driven gatherings hosted alongside major innovation moments—from NYC to Sydney to Paris. Every stop is built on authentic connection, trusted relationships, and high-signal community energy.

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July 28th - August 4th

NYC hub

Private Founders Dinner in NYC, co-hosted with Partner at Point72 ($30B+ AUM) - 7/28

Glimmer & Glam #LavLaw Affinity Celebration with LGBT+ VC, Lowenstein Sandler - 7/28

Curated Startup Pitch and Mixer | By TechBrig & Brown Rudnick LLP - 7/28 

NYC Network Nexus: Startup Edition - 7/28 

FC NYC • Founders Run & Coffee! - 7/29 

Private Founder Dinner - 7/29 

ZERO DAY - Free tacos for founders, investors, creators and operators by SeedLegals and Cliqk - 7/29 

MCP Server Builder Series - July Session (NYC) - 7/29 

NYC INTERN MID-SUMMER MOMENTUM - 7/29 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Manhattan - 7/30 

Health Tech Startup Networking Happy Hour - 7/30

Pitch & Run - Williamsburg - 7/30 

TrackCred Midweek Jog - 7/30

Rookies & Vets: NYC VC & MBA Summer Send-Off - 7/30 

Learning Landscapes Challenge Demo Day: New solutions for the future of K-12 education infrastructure - 7/30 

Ethereum 10 Year Anniversary Celebration: NYC 🗽 - 7/30 

NYC to the World: Global Founders & Funders - 7/30

The Stablecon Salon - vol. 6 - 7/30 

Brits in Tech - Coffee Meet - 7/31 

Healthcare x AI Agents | Hack & Learn - 7/31

SAUV x Girl Math Capital - 7/31

Fabrik's Loose Threads with Tish Dignam: From Cringe to Community, Showing Up Online with Purpose - 7/31

FC NYC • Founders Run & Drinks! (Night Brooklyn Edition) - 7/31

Tech Pickleball NYC - 8/1

Cookbook Club: Pie Picnic - 8/1

Gen Z Intern Summer Reset Pop Up - 8/2

NYC Founders & Funders - 8/4

First Mile Run Club w/ Collab²  - 8/4

NYC Founders & Funders - 8/4

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

San Fransisco Bay Area hub

🏀 Magic Hour Hackathon: Remix the Future of Sports - 7/28 

LLM Orchestration — The Next Big Wave? - 7/28

AI Startup Pitch Night with Qlay, Startup Intros & Context VC - 7/28

Serendipity - Founders' Dinner - 7/28 

Redefining aging & independence using AI - 7/28 

What’s Next in End of Life Care: A Conversation on Trends and Rituals - 7/28 

Climate Climbers 🧗‍♀️ - 7/28 

Datamellon AI Ignite Global Finals – San Francisco - 7/28 

AI Startup Pitch Night with Qlay, Startup Intros & Context VC - 7/28 

FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! - 7/29 

Crafting your pitch deck with Camille Matonis - 7/29 

Bay Area Gen AI & AI Agent Builders Meetup - 7/29 

🚨 Demo Night @ AWS - 7/29 

Common Ground Screening & Community Chat on Regenerative Ag - 7/29 

StartSe Meetup: AI Startup Night - 7/29 

AI Networking Showcase: Agentic AI in Pharma Manufacturing Excellence - 7/29 

DataDrivenPharma Evening Forum at Merck - 7/30

MCP Builders Summit Hosted by Featureform and Silicon Valley Bank - 7/30 

📊 AI BENCHMARK CLUB - 7/30 

👾 Trivia & Game Night with Metronome, Cloudflare, and Replicate - 7/30 

What’s the Net Impact of Your AI Startup? - 7/30 

Role of AI in Energy Transition - Upstream - 7/30

Pitch & Run San Francisco - 7/30 

AI Agents + Full Stack Demo Night @Convex - 7/30 

SF Data + AI Happy Hour - 7/30 

Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco - 7/30 

Supper-vised Learning - 7/30 

Voice AI Builders Meetup - 7/30 

Infrastructure & Agents with C-suite from MongoDB, Databricks, Descope, AppsFlyer and Alluxio - 7/30 

DevGuild: Founder Fundamentals - 7/31

Silicon Valley Wellness Labs: The Future of Performance - 7/31

Film: "Climate Crisis: Drought" + "Food for Change" - 7/31

Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Raed Masri, Founder and Managing Partner of Transform VC - 7/31

9Zero Field Trip: ICA SF Art Walk - 7/31

Hacking Agents AI Meetup - July Edition - 7/31 

MCP Server Builder Series - July - 7/31 

Tri-Valley Builders Social - 7/31 

The Race for Innovation—Engineer, Founder & VC Insightsev - 7/31

Cracking social GTM w/ 12 (scrappy) founders - 7/31 

SF July Private Founders Breakfast ft. Partners at Dell Technologies Capital & Tidemark ($500M+ AUM) - 7/31 

O1/EB1 US Visas AMA for AI researchers, founders, and builders - 7/31

Women Who Lead: Branding & Fundraising Insights - 7/31 

SF10x Hackathon - 8/1

MLH AI Roadshow: San Francisco - 8/1

Ai, B2B, SaaS Founders 「The Mixer」- 8/1 

Off Season Festival - 8/1

SF10x Hackathon - 8/1

Founder Beach Club: Summer Of Rho 🌅 - 8/1 

Agents in the Loop Hackathon - 8/2

Project Playground 01 → Fan Club - 8/2

Machine Consciousness Salon: Reflections on Humanity in an AI world w/ Sir Grayson Perry - 8/2

Summit on Decentralization & AI 2025 - 8/3

Consumer AI Build Day - 8/3 

Web3 & AI Pitch Competition & VC networking by Ga^3in Ventures x Fibonacci Capital at The Science of Blockchain Conference 2025, Berkeley - 8/4

Web3 & AI Investor Soirée by Ga^3in Ventures at The Science of Blockchain Conference 2025- 8/4

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Austin / San Antonio hub 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Austin - 7/29 

AI Applied: Live - 7/30

</de_CENTRALIZED> featuring Solana - 7/31

Founders Running Club :: Austin - 8/2 

Conscious Connection for founders, leaders, and curious people - 8/4

Chicago hub

ODSC & Google Cloud AI Meetup in Chicago, IL - 7/29 

ETH 10 Year Anniversary! - 7/30 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Chicago - 7/31 

Decentralympics: Beach Battles - 8/2

Washington D.C. hub

Fed to Tech Summit 3.0 - 7/28 

AI Infrastructure Founders & Funders Lunch at Seattle Tech Week - 7/28 

Solana Summer - DePin Series - 7/29 

DC Fintech Happy Hour- 7/30

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

Los Angeles hub

Female Founders Evening Reset - 7/28 

Creatives Cafe: Going Viral with Soul & Laughter (Brent Pella) - 7/29 

El Segundo Tech Breakfast Club - 7/29 

Velvet & Revere No Agenda Drinks - 7/29 

LA Health Tech Hang - 7/29

SF Tech Breakfast Club July - 7/30 

Startup Cafe: Reimagining Humanitarian Aid - 7/30 

Tech That Tastes Different: AI, Restaurants, & the Founder’s Playbook - 7/30

Redefining the Marketing Funnel: From Brand to Creators to Conversions - 7/31

[Climate Circuit] Summer Meetup for Climate People - 7/31

Cars & Capital | Presented by CarClub & Maserati - 7/31

Slash 1% Mastermind: E-Commerce - 8/1

Founders Running Club :: LA - 8/2

Venture Social Club | Pool Party by GiveMagix - 8/2

Startup Pitch & Networking in Los Angeles- 8/4

Miami hub

Notion en Miami Summer Gathering - 7/29 

hack night v0.64 - Wynwood - Powered by INIT - 7/29 

Coworking Day + Book Launch: Pitching Pitfalls 📘 - 7/30 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Miami - 7/30 

Founders Running Club :: Miami- 8/2

Amsterdam hub

Amsterdam Network Nexus: Startup Edition - 7/28 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Amsterdam - 7/29 

CryptoCanal Coworking x ETHGlobal x ETH Bday Edition 😎 - 7/30 

Sail & Scale: AI, Actually Edition | Boat Event - 7/30 

Crypto Drinks - Amsterdam x ETH Bday Edition 😎 - 7/30

Climate Coffee Amsterdam - July - 7/31

Snowflake + LlamaIndex Data Agent Builders Meetup Amsterdam - 7/31 

Founders Running Club :: Amsterdam - 8/2

Cannes hub

Paris hub

Yorkseed Co-working at Bastille - 7/28 

Paris Network Nexus: Startup Edition - 7/28 

Aleo x Crypto Mondays - 7/28 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Paris - 7/29 

Summer Apéro with Women in Safety and Ethics (WISE) Paris - 7/30 

Paris AI Club: August - 8/1 

Founders Running Club :: Paris - 8/2

Yorkseed Co-working at Bastille - 8/4 

Dublin hub

Dublin Network Nexus: Business & Technology - 7/28

London hub

Presence is Power: Personal Brand Like the 1% - 7/28 

Battle of the Bots - Creator Kick-off - 7/29 

Startup Pitch & Networking in London - 7/29 

Build Your Agent Night - AI Engine x Techbible - 7/29 

AI Salon: Creativity & The Machine Condition: Can Machines Truly Create? [London] - 7/29 

Life of a Founder // Alberto Rizzoli (CEO of V7) - 7/29 

Kickstarter x Blue Garage: Crowdfunding Creators Meetup - 7/29 

The Headonists: Immersive Tech Community Meetup - 7/30 

Decoding Bio x ARIA: Early-Career Scientists & Biotech Operators Mixer - 7/30 

Pitch and Run London - 7/31 

Block Dojo Cohort XI Pilot Launch Night - 7/31

In Silico #001 - 7/31

Solana Summer + Pulse Launch Rooftop Happy Hour - 7/31

Pitch and Run London - 7/31 

AI Engine: Summer Hack - 8/2

Founders Running Club :: London - 8/2 

Design Machines - 8/2

Solana Run Club (London) - 8/3

Zurich hub

BTC Treasuries: Hype, Hedge or Strategy? - 7/28

Vibe Coders: The Anti-Boring AI Coding & Build Night - 7/30 

4WARD Climate Coworking Day @ Hiltl Sihlpost - 7/30 

SUMMER ART APERO & FINISSAGE - 7/31 

Founders Running Club :: Zurich - 8/2

Milan hub

Milan Network Nexus: Startup Edition - 7/28 

TEVEO Run Club - Milano - 7/30

Fundraising with SAFEs: What Most Founders Miss- 7/31

Lisbon hub

Lisbon Loras Meetup ⌁ Boldtron Takeover - 7/31

Founders Running Club :: Lisbon- 8/2

Munich hub

Munich Network Nexus: Startup Edition - 7/28 

AI Hackathon: Build A Powerful Lead Gen Campaign In Just 90 Minutes - 7/30 

Munich Founder Coffee - 7/30 

Fundraising with SAFEs: What Most Founders Miss - 7/31

Founders Running Club :: Munich - 8/2

Berlin hub

Berlin Network Nexus: Startup Edition - 7/28 

Design, No-Code + AI: Berlin Meetup - 7/29 

Ethereum 10Y Anniversary Berlin - 7/30 

SummerUP - One Week of Non-Stop Building and Selling | powered by CODE University - 8/1 

Founders Running Club :: Berlin - 8/2

Helsinki hub

Helsinki Network Nexus: Business & Technology - 7/28 

Founders Running Club :: Helsinki - 8/2

Montreal hub

Montreal Network Nexus: Startup Edition - 7/28 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Montreal- 7/30

Toronto hub

Hiring, Paying, and Operating in the AI Age: A Founder Focused Startup Panel Discussion - 7/28 

AI Friends Meetup #6 - 7/29 

Healthtech Social by Scalpels & Spreadsheets: She Speaks Health - 7/29 

[111] Speaker Series | Play to Win : Building In A Gaming Industry - 7/30 

Founders Running Club :: Toronto- 8/2

São Paulo | Rio hub

ETHEREUM 10 Anos: A Década Da Descentralização! - 7/30

Founders Running Club :: Rio de Janeiro - 8/2 

Buenos Aires hub

Mexico City hub

Del CV al impacto: Mujeres Tech que se abren camino juntas - 7/29

Cowork with ETHGlobal in Mexico City! - 7/30 

Ethereum 10Y Anniversary Mexico City - 7/30 

Pitch and Run CDMX - 8/1

Dubai hub

Founders Running Club :: Dubai - 8/2

The Product Folks' Grabchai Meetup: Dubai - 8/2

Women in Power: The Women Leading Growth- 8/2

Tel Aviv hub

Vibe Design - 7/28 

Startup Pitch & Networking in Tel Aviv - 7/29 

Nucleate Israel - What Turns Your Discovery in the Lab Into a MedTech Breakthrough? - 7/29 

From Prompt to Product: Building in the Vibe Era - 7/29 

Building B2C in Israel - 7/29

The Agentic Start-up Event - 7/29 

StableTLV by Utila - 7/30

All Things D2C: A Live Panel - 7/30 

Investing in Global Deep Tech: A U.S. Perspective - 7/30 

Community First, Code Later: Bootstrapping SaaS from 100k+ People - Fireside Chat & Round Tables - 7/31

Building in The AI Age- 8/4

Hong Kong hub

AI + RWA : Reshaping Trillions in Asset Liquidity Summit - 7/30 

【JUL2025】TechConnect Night: Best Professional Networking Event in Hong Kong - 7/30 

Founders Running Club :: Hong Kong - 8/2

Singapore hub

AIBots (Ask The Team @ Lorong AI) - 7/28 

FC SG • Founders Run & Coffee! - 7/29 

Data Tuesday Singapore #20 - Topic: Data Strategy for AI (DAMA Singapore collab) - 7/29

AI Builders Happy Hour 🍻 - 7/30 

ETHSG celebrates Ethereum's 10th! - 7/30 

Tin Men Founders x Founders: On Founding with Family in Mind - 7/31 

Behavioral Design in Practice - The Make it Toolkit - 8/2

Malaysia hub

Cursor Meetup Kuala Lumpur @MoneyLion - 7/31

Investment 101: Building a Winning Portfolio at ANYTIME - 8/2

Sydney hub

Sydney Fractional Meetup - 7/30

10 Years of Ethereum - Sydney’s Pitch Night - 7/30 

Luxi Golf NSW Business Invitational - The Lakes - 7/31

AWS GenAI Pitch and Showcase - 8/1 

Sydney | AI Builder Co-working x S&C - 8/3 

From Chef to $180M Domain.com Exit: How Frank Greeff Built Realbase- 8/4

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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, 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!

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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

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