Llama Lounge 21 | Official Disrupt Side Event | at Capgemini

​Llama Lounge 21 | Official Disrupt Side Event | hosted at Capgemini

​- 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.

​Primary Audience: AI Leaders:

​-AI Founders: CEOs of AI Startups (majority)
-Investors who back them: VCs, CVCs
-Corporate AI Decision Makers

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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: Capgemini
-Pitch Emcee: Samuel Cummings III (Linkedin)
-10 AI startup pitches
-5 Corporate "reverse" pitches
-Group photo by Erick Davidson (1 min)
-Return to demo floors, networking

9:00pm:
Event concludes

​10 AI Startups to Pitch and Demo:

​Demo Pitch Emcee: Samuel J Cummings III of Generative AI (6M followers)

1. ​14.ai: AI-first customer support platform

2. ​All in One: All-in-one AI platform for restaurants

3. ​Clyx: AI powered event platform for community & friendship

4. ​Enkrypt AI: Agentic trust, security & compliance

5. ​Incantor: Proprietary AI powering ethical tools for creatives

6. ​Maket: Generative design for residential planning

7. ​Mill Pond Research: The governance layer for agentic AI

8. ​Parallax Worlds: Virtual worlds to stress-test robots

9. ​Prompt Driven: AI Coding for large/complex codebases 

10. ​Warmstart: AI-powered warm outreach for builders

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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.

​Appeared in Forbes. The Atlantic, AdWeek, and Techcrunch

​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 Forbes, The Atlantic, AdWeek, and Techcrunch
- A signature conch audio call signals event kickoff
- Group photos by ErickD
- No relation to Meta.
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​VCs and Investors, backers of AI Startups:

1. ​Blitzscaling Ventures

2. ​2468 Ventures

3. ​​500 Global

4. ​7BC Venture Capital

5. ​Acorn Pacific Ventures

6. ​Alchemist Accelerator

7. ​Alpha Square Group

8. ​Amigos Venture Capital

9. ​Alumni Ventures

10. ​​Alumni Ventures

11. ​Angel launch

12. ​Aon Investment

13. ​Atypical Ventures

14. ​​Avestix

15. ​​Battery Ventures

16. ​​Bay Angels

17. ​Bay Bridge Ventures

18. ​Chispa VC

19. ​Corenest Capital

20. ​Cota Capital

21. ​Denso

22. ​Entrepreneur First

23. ​FalconX Ventures

24. ​FirstLight Capital

25. ​Gaingels

26. ​GenLab Venture Studios

27. ​Genting Ventures

28. ​Georgian

29. ​Glacier Link Capital

30. ​Goo Ventures

31. ​​Grayscale Ventures

32. ​Gravity Ventures

33. ​Han River Partners

34. ​Hui Capital

35. ​INCE Capital

36. ​InMotion Ventures / JLR

37. ​Irregular Expressions

38. ​IT Park Ventures

39. ​Jolly VC, LLC

40. ​KFC Ventures

41. ​Latin Leap VC

42. ​Magnet Ventures

43. ​Matador Ventures

44. ​MFV Partners

45. ​Mitsubishi HC Capital America

46. ​mshrmm

47. ​Okta Ventures

48. ​One Way Ventures

49. ​​Onsen Global

50. ​Pano Ventures

51. ​Pegasus angel accelerator

52. ​Pléiade venture

53. ​Plus Ultra Capital

54. ​Presidio Ventures

55. ​PTTEP ARV Ventures

56. ​​Race Capital

57. ​RaDelta

58. ​Region Cuatro

59. ​S2 Capital

60. ​Samsung NEXT

61. ​Sagafon AS

62. ​Sancus Ventures

63. ​SHACK15 Ventures

64. ​shuckerVC

65. ​SignalRank

66. ​SoftBank Corp

67. ​Stanford Angels

68. ​Squarepoint

69. ​SV Venture Group

70. ​​Synaro Capital

71. ​The Canvas VC dinners

72. ​The Deckhouse ca

73. ​VALERI

74. ​Veteran Ventures Capital

75. ​Venture Builder

76. ​Yamaha Motor Ventures

77. ​UpscaleX

78. ​ZAKA VC

79. ​...more to come

​Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​Capgemini

2. ​Adobe

3. ​Abbott Biowearables

4. ​Amazon

5. ​American Red Cross

6. ​AMD

7. ​Apple

8. ​Audi

9. ​AWS

10. ​Broadcom

11. ​Dell

12. ​Docusign

13. ​Emirates Airlines

14. ​GEICO

15. ​Google

16. ​Honda

17. ​IBM

18. ​Intuit

19. ​Mazda Motor Company

20. ​Meta

21. ​NVIDIA

22. ​Oracle

23. ​Palo Alto Networks

24. ​Samsung

25. ​SB Telecom America Corp

26. ​Super Micro Computer

27. ​Swisscom Outpost

28. ​Thumbtack

29. ​Zillow

30. ​Yahoo

31. ​Zoominfo

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​Above chart: Prior event roles of approved attendees, representative of most Llama Lounge events: the AI leaders

​Above: Llama Lounge 20 with Swisscom

​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.