Llama Lounge 25: The AI Startup Event Series at Stanford

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- Event Founder: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (Linkedin).
-Sponsored by Burton Algorithms and Breakthrough Ventures
- 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, food and bev

6:30pm:
-Conch Call* and Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang (3 min)
-Welcome Remarks: Roman Scott, Burton Algorithms
-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

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

​AI Startups to Pitch and Demo:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. ​Open: Apply to demo

10. ​Open: Apply to demo

​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. ​Alchemist Accelerator

7. ​Alpha Square Partners

8. ​Angel Operator Partners

9. ​Battery Ventures

10. ​Bay Bridge Ventures

11. ​Berkeley SkyDeck

12. ​Blade Capital

13. ​Blennemann Investments

14. ​Bosch Ventures

15. ​CCV Capital

16. ​Cota Capital

17. ​Crosscourt Ventures

18. ​Daymaker Ventures

19. ​Grayscale

20. ​Great Filter Venture Capital

21. ​Hesperian Ventures

22. ​Icon Ventures

23. ​InMotion Ventures / Jaguar Land Rover

24. ​Insight Partners

25. ​JETRO

26. ​Jolly VC, LLC

27. ​Leo Ferus Ventures

28. ​Llama Ventures

29. ​Maxitech

30. ​NFX

31. ​Neurone

32. ​OneValley Ventures

33. ​Onsen Global

34. ​Pachamama Ventures

35. ​Plug and Play

36. ​PodiumVC

37. ​Precursor Ventures

38. ​Presidio Ventures

39. ​Primavera Ventures

40. ​PTTEP ARV Ventures

41. ​Resilience17

42. ​Shucker VC

43. ​SignalRank

44. ​Sorenson Capital

45. ​Synexis

46. ​ Trampoline Ventures

47. ​UpScaleX

48. ​W Ventures

49. ​ZVC

50. ​...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. ​Block

9. ​Bosch Ventures

10. ​C3

11. ​Cisco Systems

12. ​Coupa

13. ​EY India

14. ​Ernst and Young

15. ​Genentech

16. ​Goldman Sachs

17. ​Google

18. ​IBM

19. ​Intuit

20. ​JLL

21. ​JP Morgan

22. ​Johnson & Johnson

23. ​Kaiser Permanente

24. ​Lucid Motors

25. ​Microsoft

26. ​Mitsubishi Research Institute

27. ​OpenText

28. ​Oracle

29. ​Pinterest

30. ​PG&E

31. ​Qualcomm

32. ​Rackspace

33. ​Salesforce

34. ​Samsung

35. ​ServiceNow

36. ​Siemens

37. ​Snowflake

38. ​Softbank

39. ​Sonos

40. ​Tech Mahindra

41. ​Tesla

42. ​Tencent

43. ​Trinet

44. ​Walmart

45. ​Zapier

46. ​...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.