​Llama Lounge 16: The AI Startup Event Series hosted at AWS (Sold out: 400 registered)

​Thur, Feb 6th , San Francisco

​-Organizer: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (X, Linkedin).
-Ten AI Startups on demo floor, networking, food & bev.
-Gov ID required for entry. Must be registered and approved.
-Hosted by AWS Loft, also see their upcoming events.

​Primary Audience: AI Founders

​-Majority: AI Founders
-Investors who back them
-Corporate AI Partners.

​Llama Lounge Agenda:

​5:00PM:
-Doors open. meet 12 AI startups
-Meet with AWS, learn about latest solutions

6:30pm:
-Opening Remarks
-Conch Call* and Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang (3min)
-Welcome from Aaron Melgar of AWS (3min)
-Llama Lineup: 12 startups deliver 30 second pitches on stage
-Group photo
-Return to demo floors

9:00pm:
Event ends

​Meet 12 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:

​- AIMon: Rapidly optimize your RAG, LLMs, and Agents
- AQ22: Agentic bank, starting with credit assessment
- Composio: Integration Platform for AI agents & LLMs
- CrewAI: Complete platform for multi-agent automation
- Greptile: AI code reviewer with full codebase context
- Instead: Let AI do your taxes
- LanceDB: The database for multimodal AI
- RenderPub: GenAI 3D modeling, rendering & virtual tours
- Skyfire: AI identity and payments
- Valence Vibrations: Real-time emotion AI for conversational intelligence
- VESSL AI: Orchestration platform for models, agents & tools
- VOZY: AI-powered customer experience automation & insights

Startups can apply to be featured on the demo floor. Minimum of 3/10 demo slots reserved for women founders, last few events were at parity.

​About Llama Lounge:

​Big Llama Energy. We feature 10 AI Startups on a demo floor for personal demos and relationship building. See photos and posts of prior events. No relation to Meta. Logo by Sightbox. Group photos by ErickD. #LlamaLounge

​​Corporate AI Leaders: Who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​AWS: our generous host

2. ​Abbvie: Innovative Trial Designs

3. ​Accenture: SF AI Studio Lead. AI R&D Labs

4. ​Adobe: Digital Media Enterprise

5. ​Airbus: Innovation Center, Biz Dev

6. ​Blackrock: AI Champion for Investing

7. ​Cathay Innovation

8. ​Cisco: Engineering

9. ​Cisco Meraki: Computer vision

10. ​Databricks: SW Engineering

11. ​Deloitte: AI Leader

12. ​Deutsche Telekom: Sr BD & Partnerships AI

13. ​Fujitsu Research of America

14. ​Google: Numerous AI teams

15. ​Google Deepmind: Research Scientist

16. ​HP: Supply chain data science

17. ​IBM: Product leader

18. ​IBM: VP Product & Eng for Data, AI

19. ​Intel: Software team

20. ​Intuit: Senior AI Scientist

21. ​KPMG: A Partner

22. ​Mazda: Innovation & new Biz Dev

23. ​McKinsey: Co-leader of AI Trust

24. ​Meta: AI Scientist

25. ​Microsoft: TPM. AI Engineer

26. ​NEC: (Innovation) X, Inc.

27. ​Nvidia: Software engineering

28. ​Oracle: Product Manager. Director of Cloud

29. ​Palo Alto Networks: AI program manager

30. ​Pegasus Airlines: Innovation lab

31. ​Pinterest: Software Engineering

32. ​SAP: Partnerships

33. ​Salesforce: AgentForce

34. ​ServiceTitan: Dir of Engineering

35. ​Samsung: Dev Rel for Conversational AI

36. ​Sumitomo: VP of Strategy

37. ​Swisscom

38. ​Trinet: Partnerships

39. ​Uber: Product Design

40. ​Yahoo!: Software engineering. Research

41. ​Visa: AI/ML, Gen AI

42. ​Volkswagen: USA Tech Strategy & Scouting

43. ​Williams Sonoma: Data Science

44. ​Workday: Product Manager. Partnerships, Strategy

​

​VCs and Investors:

1. ​Blitzscaling Ventures

2. ​2468 Ventures

3. ​500 Global

4. ​99VC

5. ​AE Investments

6. ​Akkadian & Raise

7. ​Alaya Capital

8. ​Alpha Partners

9. ​Alpha Square Group

10. ​Alumni Ventures

11. ​Amino Capital

12. ​Arka Venture Labs/Benhamou Global Ventures

13. ​Atlantic Venture Capital

14. ​BAM Corner Point

15. ​Bay Angels

16. ​Bee Partners

17. ​Berkeley SkyDeck

18. ​BIG Ventures

19. ​Bosch Ventures

20. ​CCV Capital

21. ​Corenest Capital

22. ​Citi Ventures

23. ​DST Global

24. ​East Sunshine Ventures

25. ​Embedding VC

26. ​Founders Circle

27. ​Foundation Capital

28. ​Galaxy Ventures

29. ​Ganas Ventures

30. ​Geodesic Capital

31. ​GIC

32. ​Good Trouble Ventures

33. ​Google Ventures

34. ​Hat-Trick Capital

35. ​Hanwha Asset Management USA

36. ​Hitachi Ventures

37. ​Honeystone Ventures

38. ​Inception Studio

39. ​Infrastructure Ventures

40. ​InMotion Ventures

41. ​Indeed Ventures

42. ​Insight Partners

43. ​iSeed Ventures

44. ​IVP

45. ​Izuzu CVC

46. ​Kapor Capital

47. ​KFC ventures

48. ​LEAP Global Partners

49. ​Ludlow Ventures

50. ​M13

51. ​Mayfield

52. ​Mentors Fund

53. ​Mighty Capital

54. ​Nazare Ventures

55. ​Next47

56. ​Next Sequence

57. ​Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures

58. ​Okta Ventures

59. ​Open Core Ventures

60. ​Overlook VC

61. ​Page One

62. ​Point72 Ventures

63. ​Presidio Ventures

64. ​Qualcomm Ventures

65. ​Race Capital

66. ​Redpoint Ventures

67. ​Region4

68. ​Resilience Reserve

69. ​RingCentral Ventures

70. ​Salesforce Ventures

71. ​Section Partners

72. ​Scrum Ventures

73. ​Shack15 Ventures

74. ​shuckerVC

75. ​SoftBank Corp

76. ​Susa Ventures

77. ​The NeuroImpact Fund

78. ​Toppan Global Venture Partners

79. ​TPG

80. ​True Blue Partners

81. ​Truebridge Capital Partners

82. ​UP.Labs

83. ​Vertex Ventures

84. ​Vibranium VC

85. ​VU Venture Partners

86. ​The Westly Group

87. ​XY Ventures

88. ​YellowRocks VC

​*At Llama Lounge, a signature conch audio call signals the community to assemble for opening remarks

​Above: Llama Lounge 15 at GenLab with Disrupt

​Above: Llama Lounge 14 at SAP

​Above: Llama Lounge 13 at Capgemini

​Above: Llama Lounge 12 at CANOPY

​Above: Llama Lounge 11 at AWS

​Above: Llama Lounge 10 at Hanahaus

​Above: Llama Lounge 9 at Capgemini

​Above: Llama Lounge 8 at GenLab

Host an AI event in your city: AI Salon, our sister event series run by my business partner, Jeff Abbott, of Blitzscaling Ventures.