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October 21, 2026 New York, NY

NEW YORK, October 21, 2026: Yorkseed today formally launched its partnership programs for brands and event organizers: Host with Yorkseed, for companies that want a curated room of founders, investors and allocators, and Yorkseed Event Partners, for organizers who want to bring their own events to Yorkseed's network across 50+ city hubs.

Both programs formalize work Yorkseed has done since 2023, across 100+ events in 20+ cities and activations at 30+ conferences a year, from Paris to New York to Bali.

Host with Yorkseed

Senior founders, investors and executives rarely answer cold outreach, but they will accept a seat at a well-curated table. With Host with Yorkseed, a brand hosts and Yorkseed builds the room: guest curation from the Yorkseed network, invitations, venue, run of show and moderation. Four formats are available:

• Private Lunch: a seated midday table for 10 to 20 guests, built for investor and partner introductions.
• Private Dinner: an evening table for 10 to 24 guests, for senior relationships and enterprise buyers.
• Conference Side Event: a lunch, breakfast, salon or reception for 20 to 40+ guests during weeks like Web Summit, RAISE, NY Tech Week and SXSW.
• Custom Event: a salon, roundtable, panel, pitch forum or reception designed for the Yorkseed audience.

Every request goes through a mission check, and Yorkseed says no more often than yes: hosted events need a clear business purpose with active founders, investors or allocators at the table, no open mixers or hard selling, and they follow Yorkseed's branding guidelines. Proposals are tailored to each request.

Yorkseed Event Partners

Organizers running their own events can partner with Yorkseed in three ways:

• Community Partner: Yorkseed's logo on the event graphic and a Yorkseed line in the event description. Community partners are marked on The Yorkseed List and the Yorkseed map.
• Ecosystem Partner: an ongoing relationship across multiple events or programs.
• Co-host: Yorkseed listed as a visible co-host on the event page, inviting its network directly.

Recent partners include ARC, the human-piloted humanoid fight league, for which Yorkseed was community partner at its New York debut during NY Tech Week 2026 and at ARC Night Singapore during TOKEN2049 and F1 race week.

Brands can request a proposal, and organizers can submit an event partner request or see current community partners.