NEW YORK — June 7, 2026 — Yorkseed House closed a six-day run at BelongNYC in SoHo this week, serving as a drop-in home base for founders, investors, and operators during NY Tech Week and Latino Tech Week 2026. The edition, Yorkseed House's second, ran June 1–6 at 218 Lafayette St, co-hosted with BelongNYC, Flowstate, and Elevate.
Framed as "the place between the rooms," Yorkseed House offered full-week access for $10, positioning itself as a venue for the conversations that happen around official programming rather than a scheduled event in its own right — a curated space vetted founders, investors, LPs, family offices, and ecosystem leaders could drop into throughout the week. Unlike a single flagship event, the format let attendees set their own pace: some came through once for a specific introduction, others treated it as a working space for the full six days, holding informal meetings between official NY Tech Week and Latino Tech Week sessions elsewhere in the city.
The space ran informally each day, without a fixed schedule of panels or programming — a deliberate contrast to the packed agendas running in parallel across the city's official Tech Week venues. BelongNYC's SoHo location, co-hosted with community partners Flowstate and Elevate, gave the run a consistent home base that attendees could return to across the week rather than a one-off activation.
"NY Tech Week moves fast — schedules shift, rooms fill up, and the best conversations tend to happen between the panels, not during them. That's what Yorkseed House is for: one place people can flow through all week without needing an invitation to a specific thing."
"BelongNYC exists for exactly this kind of week — people arriving from out of town with a packed schedule and nowhere consistent to land in between. Co-hosting with Yorkseed meant our members got direct access to a founder and investor pool they wouldn't otherwise cross paths with."
This was Yorkseed House's first return to New York since its 2023 origins and its second edition overall, following the series' debut at SXSW Austin in March 2025. It builds on Yorkseed's broader NY Tech Week presence, which this year also included the Fintech & AI Pitch Forum, Venture Salon, and a closing Yacht Party on the Hudson — giving Yorkseed a presence across both drop-in and scheduled formats during the week.
Yorkseed House next travels to Paris for RAISE Summit in July, followed by Lisbon during Web Summit in November, with a return to Austin for SXSW confirmed for 2027.
Yorkseed House is Yorkseed's curated founder and investor pop-up series, traveling with major global tech events. Editions to date: SXSW Austin (2025, with The Lively & Grit Daily House) and NY Tech Week (2026, with BelongNYC, Flowstate, and Elevate), with Paris, Lisbon, and SXSW Austin 2027 upcoming. Learn more at yorkseedhouse.com.
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