Llama Lounge 25: The AI Startup Event Series at Stanford

​- Event Founder: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (Linkedin).
- 11 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
- See list below

​Llama Lounge Agenda:

​5:00PM:
- Doors open. meet 10 AI startups, food and bev

6:30pm-7:30pm:
- Conch Call* and Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang
- Roman Scott, Burton Algorithms
-⁠ ⁠⁠Itbaan Nafi, Breakthrough Ventures

Startup Pitches:
- 11 startup pitches, led by Rajiv Ayyangar. Product Hunt
- Group photo by Erick Davidson (1 min)
- Return to demo floors, networking

8:30pm:
- Event concludes, ask around for the after party

​Meet 10 AI Startups: Pitch and Demo Tables

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​Startup Pitch Emcee: Rajiv Ayyangar. CEO of Product Hunt

​AI Startups to Pitch and Demo:

1. ​Redis: Real time context engine for AI apps

2. ​Anchr (a16z): AI agent workforce for food distribution

3. ​Bujo (YC): AI agents for B2C customer support

4. ​Fearn AI (a16z): Secure patents for everyone

5. ​Known (NFX): AI and voice enabled dating app

6. ​Kridha.ai (Breakthrough): Building body intelligence for fashion

7. ​Modo: The AI success layer for the enterprise

8. ​Monocle Intelligence: (Breakthrough) Reasoning infrastructure for physical world AI

9. ​Variant (a16z, Breakthrough): Playable social: say it through play

10. ​Vitify Health (Breakthrough): AI-powered clinical trial recruitment

11. ​Vocal Bridge (AI Fund): Developer platform for building voice-first applications

12. ​Zeroclick (Breakthrough): The search engine for agentic capabilities

​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:

1. ​Blitzscaling Ventures

2. ​Breakthrough Ventures

3. ​500 Global

4. ​Acorn Pacific Ventures

5. ​AI Fund

6. ​AI Sprouts

7. ​Alchemist Accelerator

8. ​Alpha Square Partners

9. ​Angel Operator Partners

10. ​Band of Angels

11. ​Battery Ventures

12. ​Bay Bridge Ventures

13. ​Berkeley SkyDeck

14. ​Blade Capital

15. ​Blennemann Investments

16. ​Bosch Ventures

17. ​CCV Capital

18. ​Coinfund

19. ​Cota Capital

20. ​Crosscourt Ventures

21. ​Daymaker Ventures

22. ​DCG Ventures

23. ​FEV VC

24. ​Glasswing

25. ​Grayscale

26. ​Great Filter Venture Capital

27. ​Hesperian Ventures

28. ​Icon Ventures

29. ​InMotion Ventures / Jaguar Land Rover

30. ​Insight Partners

31. ​IOVC

32. ​JETRO

33. ​Jolly VC, LLC

34. ​Leo Ferus Ventures

35. ​Llama Ventures

36. ​Maxitech

37. ​NFX

38. ​Neurone

39. ​OneValley Ventures

40. ​Oneway Ventures

41. ​Onsen Global

42. ​Pachamama Ventures

43. ​Plug and Play

44. ​PodiumVC

45. ​Precursor Ventures

46. ​Presidio Ventures

47. ​Primavera Ventures

48. ​PTTEP ARV Ventures

49. ​Rainfall Ventures

50. ​Resilience17

51. ​Shucker VC

52. ​SignalRank

53. ​Softbank

54. ​Sorenson Capital

55. ​Synexis

56. ​Trampoline Ventures

57. ​UpScaleX

58. ​W Ventures

59. ​ZVC

60. ​Z Venture Capital

61. ​...more to come

​Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​Stanford

2. ​Adobe

3. ​Albertsons

4. ​Alibaba

5. ​Amazon

6. ​Anthropic

7. ​Apple

8. ​Atlassian

9. ​Block

10. ​Bosch Ventures

11. ​C3

12. ​Cisco Systems

13. ​Coupa

14. ​EY India

15. ​Ernst and Young

16. ​Ford

17. ​Genentech

18. ​Goldman Sachs

19. ​Google

20. ​IBM

21. ​Intuit

22. ​JLL

23. ​JP Morgan

24. ​Johnson & Johnson

25. ​Kaiser Permanente

26. ​Lucid Motors

27. ​Mazda

28. ​Meta

29. ​Microsoft

30. ​Mitsubishi Research Institute

31. ​OpenText

32. ​Oracle

33. ​Pinterest

34. ​PG&E

35. ​Qatar Airlines

36. ​Qualcomm

37. ​Rackspace

38. ​Salesforce

39. ​Samsung

40. ​ServiceNow

41. ​Siemens

42. ​Snowflake

43. ​Softbank

44. ​Sonos

45. ​Supermicro

46. ​Swisscom

47. ​Tech Mahindra

48. ​Tesla

49. ​Tencent

50. ​Trinet

51. ​Visa

52. ​Walmart

53. ​Zapier

54. ​...more to come

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

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​Above: Llama Lounge 24 at Google DeepMind

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​Above: Llama Lounge Hackathon at Snowflake

​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.