Llama Lounge 25: The AI Startup Event Series at Stanford

​Event at Capacity, 800+ Registered. Sold Out

​- Event Founder: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (Linkedin).
- 10 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:
- 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. ​Fearn AI (a16z): Secure patents for everyone

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

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

6. ​Modo (Breakthrough): The AI success layer for the enterprise

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

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

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

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

11. ​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. ​Beyond Earth Ventures

15. ​Blade Capital

16. ​Blennemann Investments

17. ​Bosch Ventures

18. ​CCV Capital

19. ​Coinfund

20. ​Cota Capital

21. ​CoFound Partners

22. ​Crosscourt Ventures

23. ​Daymaker Ventures

24. ​DCG Ventures

25. ​FEV VC

26. ​Glasswing

27. ​Grayscale

28. ​Great Filter Venture Capital

29. ​Hesperian Ventures

30. ​Icon Ventures

31. ​InMotion Ventures / Jaguar Land Rover

32. ​Insight Partners

33. ​IOVC

34. ​JETRO

35. ​Jolly VC, LLC

36. ​Leo Ferus Ventures

37. ​Llama Ventures

38. ​Maxitech

39. ​NFX

40. ​Neurone

41. ​OneValley Ventures

42. ​Oneway Ventures

43. ​Onsen Global

44. ​Pachamama Ventures

45. ​Plug and Play

46. ​PodiumVC

47. ​Precursor Ventures

48. ​Presidio Ventures

49. ​Primavera Ventures

50. ​PTTEP ARV Ventures

51. ​Rainfall Ventures

52. ​Resilience17

53. ​Shucker VC

54. ​SignalRank

55. ​Softbank

56. ​Sorenson Capital

57. ​Synexis

58. ​Trampoline Ventures

59. ​UpScaleX

60. ​W Ventures

61. ​ZVC

62. ​Z Venture Capital

63. ​...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. ​Mondelez

32. ​NASA

33. ​OpenText

34. ​Oracle

35. ​Pinterest

36. ​PG&E

37. ​Qatar Airlines

38. ​Qualcomm

39. ​Rackspace

40. ​Salesforce

41. ​Samsung

42. ​ServiceNow

43. ​Siemens

44. ​Snowflake

45. ​Softbank

46. ​Sonos

47. ​Supermicro

48. ​Swisscom

49. ​Tech Mahindra

50. ​Tesla

51. ​Tencent

52. ​Trinet

53. ​Visa

54. ​Walmart

55. ​Zapier

56. ​...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.