Llama Lounge 19: The AI Startup Event Series at SAP Palo Alto
Waitlist-only: As registrants cancel, new applicants will be accepted.
- Event Founder: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (Linkedin).
- Ten AI Startups on demo floor, networking, food & bev.
- Gov ID required for entry. Must be registered and approved.
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Primary Audience: AI Founders:
-AI Founders: CEOs of AI Startups (majority)
-Investors who back them: VCs, CVCs
-Corporate AI Decision Makers
-See list below
Above Chart: Data crunched on Aug 19th, 2025
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Llama Lounge Agenda:
5:00PM:
-Doors open. meet 10 AI startups
6:30pm:
-Conch Call* and Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang (3 min)
-Welcome Remarks: SAP's Yaad Oren (2 min)
-11 AI startup pitches (22min) led by Samuel Cummings
-Group photo by Erick Davidson (1 min)
-Return to demo floors, networking
9:00pm:
Event concludes
Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:
Demo Pitch Emcee: Samuel J Cummings III, AI Content Creator of Generative AI (6M followers)
-ApertureDB: Powering AI with semantics, context, & multimodality
-Avelis Health: Audit medical claims for self-insured employers
-CrewAI: Complete platform for multi-agent automation
-Dimension: Domain and task specific CAD agent
-Instock: Robots bringing intelligence to warehouse racking
-Osly: Automates internal workflows with natural language
-Pixelesq: Cursor for marketing: AI-native enterprise CMS
-PowerYou: AI-powered guide for your emotional strength
-Thesys: Frontend infrastructure for AI agents
-Vella AI: AI-powered tools for deep work
Meet the SAP Joule team at their table, learn about the AI copilot for business.
Startups can apply to be featured on the demo floor, applications will be considered for the multiple future events that are being planned. Minimum of 3/10 demo slots reserved for women founders, last few events were at parity.
About Llama Lounge: The AI Startup Event Series
Since April 2023. We feature lightning talks from leading CEOs, government leaders, and industry thought leaders—alongside 10 AI startup pitches and a demo floor for personal demos and relationship-building with AI founders, investors, and corporate AI leaders. The event has been hosted at: Zoom, AWS, GenLab, Stanford, SAP, Canopy, Capgemini, Hanahaus, and birthed at Sunset Squares.
- Watch 1-min drone video of Llama Lounge
- See photos and posts of prior events.
- Logo by Sightbox
- Mentioned in The Atlantic, AdWeek, and Techcrunch
- A signature conch audio call signals event kickoff
- Group photos by ErickD
- No relation to Meta.
#LlamaLounge
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Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:
SAP
Adobe: GenStudio Product Manager
Amazon Fulfillment, Robotics
Amazon One Medical: Sr SWE
Amazon Pay: Product Leader
Amazon Prime Video & MGM: Applied Science
Amazon AGI: Product
AWS: GM, Data Foundation (Analytics, Storage, DB)
Apple: Strategy Lead
Apple: Machine Learning Engineer
Audi: Director
Blackrock: Head of AI
Block: Software Engineer
Blue Cross Blue Shield: Product Leader
Box
Capitol One: SW Engineer, AI Agent
Carta: Engineering Leader
Consumer Reports: Innovation Labs (AI)
C3 AI: Chief Data Scientist
Cisco: Sr Dir Product Management
Cisco Meraki: Computer Vision Engineer.
Cisco Meraki: Product Manager
Citi: AVP Data Solutions
Cruise/GM: technical lead of mapping
GEICO: Product
Genentech
Google, multiple AI roles, Open source lead
Google Cloud: Product Manager
Google DeepMind: Product Lead, TPMs
Google DeepMind: Research scientist
Google: Head of Cloud AI Activation
Grayscale Ventures
Hearst: Sr data scientist
Honda Research Institute, USA
HPE: AI ML
Hubspot: Principal MarTech AI Engineer
IBM: Agents engineer
Impulsum Ventures
Intel: Chief AI Architect
Intuit: TPM
Intuit: Head of Global Sales Data Science
Intuit: Head of AI Product Management
Intuit: Product
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: PM
Linkedin: Product
LinkedIn: Staff SWE/ML
Marubeni America Corporation: Silicon Valley exec
Mazda: Innovation & New Ventures
Menyala (Temasek)
Meta: ML
Meta: Product Manager
Meta: SWE
Meta: Llama GTM
Meta: AI Research Scientist
Microsoft: AI Engineer
Nvidia: Inception Startup Program
Nvidia ChipNemo: Product Lead
OpenText: lead SWE
OpenAI: Sr. Director, Oracle Cloud
Oracle: Data Scientist
Palo Alto Networks
Paypal: SWE
Qatar Airlines: Head of Ops & Innovation
Ringcentral: AI/ML / Data Engineering
Rivian: SWE
Samsung Research: ML
Samsung Research America: VP, AI Center
Sandisk: Computer Scientist
Sandisk: Head of platform development
Snap: SWE
SoftBank Group Telecom America Corp
Snowflake: Director of AI Partnerships
Stellantis
SuperMicro
Samsung: Conversational AI DevRel
Tesla: Supply Chain Leader
Tiktok: Sr Product Manager
Toyota/Woven: Product Manager of Mapping / Lane Keeping
UK Dept of Business and Trade
Visa: Product Manager payments
Volkswagen of America: Tech scouting, AI
VW: IT lead
VW: Volkswagen Innovation Center of California
Walmart: Global Tech SWE
Walmart: Data Science, Payments
Walmart: PMO
Wells Fargo: SVP of Product Management AI
Whirlpool corporation: DevOps Engineer
ZScaler: Director of Data + AI
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VCs and Investors, backers of AI Startups:
Blitzscaling Ventures
2468 Ventures
500 Global
Acorn Pacific Ventures
Advantary
AI Fund
Alchemist Accelerator
Alpha Square Group
Alumni Ventures
Arka Venture Labs
Battery Ventures
Benhamou Global Ventures
Berkeley Angel Network
Berkeley Venture Capital
Blackstone
Blume Ventures
Boundless Ventures
Canaan
CCV Capital
Converge
Cofounder Ventures
Dell Tech Capital
Denso Ventures
Diversis Capital
Diversity Venture Capital
Dnipro VC
Docomo Innovations
Draper Associates
DRIVE Catalyst
EAI Investments
Emergent Ventures
Escape Investment Management
FalconX Ventures
G2C Ventures
Galaxy Ventures
Ganas Ventures
Georgian
Grayscale Ventures
Ground Capital
Hat Trick Capital
Hesperian Ventures
Hitachi Ventures
Hustle Fund
Inception Studios
InMotion Ventures / Jaguar Land Rover
January Capital
J2
Jolly Ventures
KFC ventures
Lamarka
Latín Leap VC
LDV Ventures
Llama Venture
LG Technology Ventures
Marubeni Power Ventures
Mayfield
Micron Corporate Ventures
Mitsui Global Investment
Mosaic Ventures Lab
MS&AD Ventures, Inc
Mubadala Capital
Next 47
Natcast: NSTC Investments
NGP Capital
Nurture Growth Fund
Obvious Ventures
Omni Ventures
Onsen Global
Outpost Capital
Pano Ventures
Pegasus Angel and Accelerators
Practical Venture Capital
Presidio Ventures
Progressive Ventures
Qualcomm Ventures
Race Capital
Redpoint Ventures
Ringcentral Investments
Rocketship VC
Rogue Venture Fund
RPS Ventures
Sageview Capital
SBI Holdings
SBI USA Gateway Fund
Script Assets
Seido Capital
SenseAI Ventures
Sky 9 Capital
Shack15 Ventures
Shucker VC
Sixty Degree Capital
Sky9 Capital
SOSV
Sprintly Partners
StarWorks Entrepreneurial VC
Swisscom Ventures
Techstars
TQ Ventures
Unpopular Ventures
Unruly Capital
UpScaleX.AI
VU Venture Partners
Wild Tree Ventures
Wipro Ventures
Xora VC
XY Ventures
...more to come
Above Photo: Llama Lounge 18 at Zoom
Above Photo: Llama Lounge 17 at Stanford
Above: Llama Lounge 16 at AWS in SF
Above: Llama Lounge 15 at GenLab with Disrupt in SF
Above: Llama Lounge 14 at SAP in SF
Above: Llama Lounge 13 at Capgemini in SF
Above: Llama Lounge 12 at CANOPY in SF
Above: Llama Lounge 11 at AWS in SF
Above: Llama Lounge 10 at Hanahaus in Palo Alto
Above: Llama Lounge 9 at Capgemini in SF
Above: Llama Lounge 8 at GenLab in SF
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You can host an AI event in your city: AI Salon, our sister event series run by my business partner, Jeff Abbott, of Blitzscaling Ventures.