Llama Lounge 20: The AI Startup Event Series with Swisscom, SF
- Event Founder: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (Linkedin).
- Ten AI Startups on demo floor, networking, food & bev.
- Hosted by Swisscom Outpost
- 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
Llama Lounge Agenda:
5:00PM:
-Doors open. meet 10 AI startups
6:30pm:
-Conch Call* and Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang (3 min)
-Welcome Remarks: Swisscom, Dušan Vuksanovic (3min)
-10 AI startup pitches
-Group photo by Erick Davidson (1 min)
-Return to demo floors, networking
-Meet the Swisscom innovation team
9:00pm:
Event concludes
Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:
Demo Pitch Emcee: Dasha Shunina, Women Tech Meetup | Forbes | Podcast Talks with Dasha.
Algorized: Sensing & perception tech to protect life
Composio: Connect & improve AI agents on one platform
ContextQA: Agentic AI for complete test coverage
DiagnoVET: Quick, accurate AI veterinary imaging reports
EasyMate: AI-first ops platform for SMBs
Krane: Smarter supply chain execution, powered by agents
Lace: Find design assets, track feedback, from anywhere
MintMCP: Observability, governance, enablement for enterprise AI
Morph: The fastest way to apply AI edits
NOSY: AI nose for robots
More demo slots available at Llama Lounge 21 on Oct 28th 2025: Startups can apply to be featured on the demo floor and pitch on stage. 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, Techcrunch and Forbes
- A signature conch audio call signals event kickoff
- Group photos by ErickD
- No relation to Meta.
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Above chart: Prior event roles of approved attendees, representative of most Llama Lounge events: the AI leaders
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Registered VCs and Investors, backers of AI Startups:
Blitzscaling Ventures
1521 Ventures
2468 Ventures
500 Global
500 Global Japan
AB Plus Ventures
Abbott Biowearables
Acorn Pacific Ventures
Advantary Capital Partners
AI Fund
Alchemist AcceleratorAlpha Square Ventures
Alumni Ventures
Atypical Ventures
AV .vc
Battery Ventures
Bayview Development Group
Berkeley Sky Deck
Beta University
Blanksby Family Fund
Cofounder Ventures
Converge VC
Conscendo Ventures
Corenest Capital
Cota Capital
DCG Venture
DeepStart Ventures
Dell Tech Capital
Denso
Digital Garage
District Angels
Diversis Capital
Dnipro VC
E12 Ventures
Element 14 Capital
FalconX Ventures
Fidelity
Fintech Next
Founders Future
Galaxy Ventures
GFT Ventures
güil Mobility Ventures
Han River Partners
Healthtech Capital
Hesperian Ventures, LLC
Hitachi Ventures
HP Ventures
INCE Capital
Indeed Corporate Venture
Industrial Bank of Korea
igniteXL Ventures
InMotion Ventures / Jaguar Land Rover
J2
JohnQ Ventures
Jolly VC
KBTG
KFC Ventures
Korean Investment Corporation
Latin Leap VC
Lamarka
LG
Llama Venture
Mavka Capital
Maple Leaf Venture Club
Maxitech Ventures
Mav3rick Ventures
MDSV
Mosaic Venture Lab
Motus Ventures
MS&AD Ventures
Mulesoft: Product Manager
Nexus Venture Partners
N47 (Next47)
Odyssey Ventures
OK Capital
Onsen Global
Pegasus Airline CVC
Piper Ventures
Platanus
Plus Ultra Capital
Plug and Play
Presidio Ventures
Prestel & Partner
Proving Ground
PTTEP ARV Ventures
Purple Ventures
Qualcomm Ventures
Race Capital
Region4
Rocketship VC
Saint-Gobain Venture Arm
Sageview Capital
ScoreData Corporation
Serena Capital
Sky9 Capital
Skydeck
SHACK15 Ventures
Shucker
Signal Rank
Sixty Degree Capital
Sky9 Capital
SocialCap AI | Family Offices & VC
Softbank
Sturgeon Capital
Swisscom Ventures
Swift Ventures
SV Venture Group
TechStars
The Founder VC
The Pitch
Theory Forge Ventures
TPG
Tinyfish
Triangle Tweener Fund
TQ Ventures
UBS
Unfold Capital
VU Venture Partners
Xora Innovation
XTX Ventures
XY Ventures
Yamaha Motor Ventures
Z21 Ventures
ZAKA VC
...more to come
Registered Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:
Swisscom Outpost. CEO
Adobe. Product Manager
Apple, Engineering Manager
Apple, Full Stack Engineer
Apple, MLE
Adobe, SWE
Airbnb, SWE
Apple, Global Program Strategy
Amazon. Sr. Product Manager
Amazon. Applied Scientist
Amazon. Robotic Operations
Amazon Robotics. Head of Product and TPM
Audi of America. IT Lead
BorgWarner: Corporate Strategy and Ventures Specialist
C3 AI. Vice President and Chief Data Scientist
Capital One, Product Manager
City of San Jose: Applied AI
Deutsche Telekom, AI Partnerships
EA: Sr. Research Manager AI/Analytics
Fannie Mae: Data Science
Koito Manufacturing / Cepton, Innovation Manager
Google. Head of Google Colab
Google DeepMind
Google Gemini Program Manager, GenAI Post-Training Ops
Google: Senior Product Manager
Google, Open Source (Investor role)
Google Cloud, Product Leader AI Infrastructure
Honda Robotics
Honda: Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Planning
HP, Supply Chain Data Scientist
HPE, Startup Programs
IBM: Product Manager Watson
IBM Apptio: Product Exec
Industrial Bank of Korea
Intuit: TPM
Lucid Motors: Sourcing
Mastercard: Principal SWE
Mazda Motor Company: Innovation and new ventures
Meta: SuperIntelligence lab
Meta: SWE
Mercedes: Product Design
Microsoft: SWE
Microsoft & Founder of Lift Leaders.AI
Microsoft: Product Manager, Copilot
Mitsubishi Research Institute
NVIDIA. Product Lead, AI for GPU Design
NVIDIA: Engineering Leader
NVIDIA, Startup Partnerships
Oracle. Sr Director
Oracle.SWE
Palo Alto Networks: Sr TPM, AI Runtime Security & ADEM
RSM: AI Leader
Salesforce
Salesforce, Dir of Eng
Samsung Reseaech of America; ML
Samsung, Head of Conversational AI Dev Rel
SAP. Strategic AI Partnerships
Snowflake. Senior Manager, Community
Snowflake, Director AI Partnerships
Snowflake, Program Manager
Tensor Auto.
Verizon Innovation Labs, director of innovation
ViaPath Technologies. SVP Tablets and Hardware
Volkswagen Group of America. GenAI Open Innovation & Tech Strategy Lead
Walmart: Staff Product Manager
Williams-Sonoma: Marketing Analytics
Zendesk VP in Finance
Zoominfo. Enterprise AI Architect
...more to come
Above Photo: Llama Lounge 19 at SAP Palo Alto
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.