Co-Founder Speed Dating Picnic
Looking for a co-founder or a first hire?
Yorkseed and Tison.io are running a matchmaking picnic in Central Park. Structured speed dating for founders looking for a co-founder, and for engineers, designers, and operators looking for a founding team to join.
Here's how it works. You tell us in one line what you're building or what you want to build on. We pair you up for short rotating conversations, roughly 10-15 minutes each. After the rotations we open it up, lay out the blankets, and let the interesting pairs keep talking.
There'll be a WhatsApp group that attendees only will be invited to join.
Bring a blanket and something to share. We'll bring the name tags.
WHAT TO EXPECT
🕐 Rotations start at 2:30pm, so try to arrive by 2:15pm to participate from the first round
🧺 A picnic on the Sheep Meadow lawn. Free, outdoors, weather permitting
🔁 Short structured conversations with people you would not otherwise meet
🤝 Real connections
WHO THIS IS FOR
✅ Founders looking for a technical or commercial co-founder
✅ Engineers and designers who want to join something early
✅ Operators ready to be employee number one
✅ Anyone with an idea and no one to build it with
ABOUT US
Yorkseed is a curated, application-reviewed network of startup founders raising capital and investors actively deploying it. Yorkseed Connect, our deal platform, handles discovery, diligence, and introductions in one place, across 50+ city hubs worldwide.
🔗 yorkseed.co
Tison.io is a mission-driven boutique software and GTM engineering agency working exclusively with bootstrapped and pre-seed founders on the journey from Zero to One. Tison sources its talent from DirectEd Development, an elite academy for top 0.1% African tech prodigy that has collaborations with companies like Lovable, Neo4j and Canva.
🔗 tison.io
Yorkseed is a curated, application-reviewed network of startup founders raising capital and investors actively deploying it. Yorkseed Connect, our deal platform, handles discovery, diligence, and introductions in one place, across 50+ city hubs worldwide.
🔗 yorkseed.co
Tison.io is a mission-driven boutique software and GTM engineering agency working exclusively with bootstrapped and pre-seed founders on the journey from Zero to One. Tison sources its talent from DirectEd Development, an elite academy for top 0.1% African tech prodigy that has collaborations with companies like Lovable, Neo4j and Canva.
🔗 tison.io
🔗 Check out our other NYC founder events this week:
💻 Bootstrapped & Solo Founders Afterwork (Fri, Sep 11)
For founders building with small teams, limited capital, and a focus on customers and revenue.
https://luma.com/uuprbwf6
💡 Curious About Starting a Startup? (Sat, Sep 12)
Talk through your idea with founders who have already taken the first steps.
https://luma.com/6uy57p58
🤝 Co-Founder Speed Dating Picnic (Sun, Sep 13)
Meet potential co-founders, founding hires, and early-stage collaborators.
https://luma.com/1gx7o99r
🛒 Marketplace Founders Afterwork (Mon, Sep 14)
A peer exchange about liquidity, take rates, supply, demand, and marketplace growth.
https://luma.com/hb1r9l8m
📈 Seed-to-Series-A Growth Hacking Exchange (Tue, Sep 15)
Swap real growth experiments, results, costs, and lessons with founders and operators.
https://luma.com/t5yhhipc
🌇 Women Founders Social (Wed, Sep 16)
Close the week with women founders, investors, operators, and allies in the East Village.
https://luma.com/tison.io
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