Llama Lounge 24: The AI Startup Event Series @ Google Deepmind
Waitlist only --Event at Capacity
- 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 Leaders:
-AI Founders: CEOs of AI Startups (majority)
-Investors who back them: VCs, CVCs
-Corporate AI Decision Makers
-See list below
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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: Peter Danenberg, Google DeepMind
-10 AI startup pitches
-Group photo by Erick Davidson (1 min)
-Return to demo floors, networking
8:30pm:
Event concludes
Meet 10 AI Startups: Pitch and Demo Tables
Startup Pitch Emcee: Rajiv Ayyangar. CEO of Product Hunt
AI Startups to Pitch and Demo:
AdZen: Advertising platform for LLMs and publishers
Ambiguous: (a16z, Blitzscaling) Build AI coworkers that work like teammates
Cara (AI Fund): Automated in home assessments for at risk populations
DiaDia Health: AI medical reasoning platform for precision & root-cause care
Echo: Turning chat conversations into market intelligence
Fastshot (YC): Autonomous AI mobile app builder
Fetch AI: Personal social AI - connect, discover, monetize agents
Glam AI: Entry-level consumer AI content platform
Lightberry: (YC, Blitzscaling): Makes robots emotionally intelligent: listen, speak, see
Vidably (AI Fund): Human evidence for AI commerce
Meet the Google team at their booth
Apply to demo at future events
Appeared in Forbes. The Atlantic, AdWeek, Techcrunch, and TED AI
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 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:
Blitzscaling Ventures
2077 Ventures
212 VC
3C AGI Partners
500 Global
7BC Venture Capital
Acorn Pacific Ventures
AI Fund
Accel
Across Ventures
AGI House Ventures
Alchemist Accelerator
Alpha Square Group
Antler
Argonautic Ventures
Arrington Capital
Bay Angels
Benhamou Global Ventures
Berkeley Angel Network
Bessemer Venture Partners
Blackwood
Bosch Ventures
Bridge Associates
BRI Capital Partners
Brookfield
Bullpen Capital
Caffeinated Capital
CDIB Capital
CCV Capital
Cisco
Converge VC
Cota Capital
Cyber Fund
DEEPCORE Inc
Denso
DG Daiwa Ventures
Diversity VC
Dnipro VC
EnvisionX
FalconX
Fika Ventures
Financial Freedom Fellows
Fortino Ventures
Fusion Fund
G2C Ventures
Galaxy Ventures
GenLab
Genesia Ventures
Go Global World
Google Ventures
Grayscale Ventures
Han River Partners
Hat Trick Capital
HeavyBit
Heliad
Hui Capital
Hyundai motor company
Icon Ventures
ID4 Ventures
J Ventures
Jolly VC
KASIKORN
KBTG CVC
LvlUp Ventures
Matrix Partners
Mavka Ventures
Maxitech
MPCi
Mercurius Media Capital
Mosaic Venture Lab
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Ventures
MS&AD Ventures
Nemway Ventures
Neo Ventures
Neurone
NextStar Venture Partners
Next Gen Partners
NTT Docomo Ventures
Omni Ventures
Pachamama Ventures
PG&E
Plug and Play
PodiumVC
Presidio Ventures
Prosperity 7 Ventures
RA Capital
Race capital
Rainfall Ventures
Region4
Relentless
Resilient Earth Capital
Ring Central Ventures
S28 Capital
Samsung NEXT Ventures
Sancus Ventures
Scale Asia Ventures
Selcouth Capital
Shack15 Ventures
shuckerVC
SK Telecom CVC
Sony Ventures
Solaris Venture Partners
Sophia Business Angels (SBA)
Sorenson Capital
StartX
Sunstone
Quadri Ventures
Temasek
Tencent Investments
Treeo VC
TVGP
UpScaleX
Wiharper
Xora
Yzi labs
Z Ventures
ZVC Ventures
...more to come
Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:
Google
49ers
AbbVie
Adobe
Agora
AMD
Amazon
Anthropic
Any Group
Apple
Arista
Atlassian
Autodesk
Audi
Baird
C3 ai
Cisco
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Gov)
Coupa Software
Deloitte
Dialpad
Docomo Innovations,Inc.
EA
Ford
Fujitsu
Fuji America
Genentech
Google
Highmark Health
Hitachi
Honda
HP
Hubspot
IHI Americas
Intuit
JLL
JP Morgan
Mazda
Meta
Microsoft
NASA
NBCUniversal
Northrop Grumman
Nvidia
OpenAI
OpenText
Paypal
Pegasus Airlines Innovation
PG&E
Pinterest
Primal Pet Group
Rackspace
Reddit
Rivian
Sonos
S&P Global
Samsung
Salesforce
ServiceNow
Siemens Healthineers
Swisscom
Snowflake
Tesla
TIkTok
Trinet
Uber
UBS
Verizon
Volkswagen Group of America
Walmart
Walmart Connect
Wells Fargo
WI Harper
Workday
Yelp!
Zendesk
Zoom
...more to come
Above chart created by Gemini of Llama Lounge attendee breakdown
Above: Llama Lounge 22 at AWS
Above: Llama Lounge 21 with Capgemini with Techcrunch Disrupt
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.