Llama Lounge 26: The AI Startup Event Series @ Microsoft

​- 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: Microsoft
-Remarks: Firewrosk
-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: Valerie Bertele, AI & Startups Growth @Microsoft

​AI Startups to Pitch and Demo:

1. ​AIX Global: Adaptive execution intelligence for AI & quantum

2. ​Founding.Dev: Replace expensive SaaS subscriptions with your own tools (Antler)

3. ​Sun: The future of learning through intelligent audio (Blitzscaling Ventures)

4. ​Open Slot: Apply to demo

5. ​Open Slot: Apply to demo

6. ​Open Slot: Apply to demo

7. ​Open Slot: Apply to demo

8. ​Open Slot: Apply to demo

9. ​Open Slot: Apply to demo

10. ​Open Slot: Apply to demo

​Meet the Microsoft 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: Google, 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.
#LlamaLounge

​VCs and Investors, backers of AI Startups:

1. ​Blitzscaling Ventures

2. ​AB Plus Ventures

3. ​Alchemist Accelerator

4. ​Angel launch

5. ​Alumni Ventures

6. ​Autotech Ventures

7. ​Base Ventures

8. ​Bosch Ventures

9. ​Converge VC

10. ​EDCAPIT / ITCAPITAL Ventures

11. ​Future Energy Ventures

12. ​G2C Ventures

13. ​Hat Trick Capital

14. ​Jolly VC

15. ​Icon Ventures

16. ​Iolar Ventures

17. ​Luminar Ventures

18. ​Mazda Ventures

19. ​Mavka Ventures

20. ​N74

21. ​Navis Capital LLC

22. ​NextStar Venture Partners

23. ​NFX

24. ​PodiumVC

25. ​Precursor Ventures

26. ​Presidio Ventures

27. ​Ring Central Ventures

28. ​Samsung NEXT Ventures

29. ​Sony Ventures

30. ​Solaris Venture Partners

31. ​TechLAB Innovation Center

32. ​Z Venture Capital

33. ​...more to come

​Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​Microsoft

2. ​Adobe

3. ​Amazon

4. ​Apple

5. ​Booz Allen Hamilton

6. ​C3

7. ​Cisco

8. ​Coupa Software

9. ​Google

10. ​Intuit

11. ​JP Morgan

12. ​Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

13. ​Lucid Motors

14. ​Marubeni

15. ​Mitsubishi HC Capital America

16. ​Nvidia

17. ​Oracle

18. ​Qualcomm

19. ​Rackspace

20. ​Schaeffler

21. ​Tesla

22. ​Verizon

23. ​Wells Fargo

24. ​ZoomInfo

25. ​...more to come

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​Above: Llama Lounge attendees by role, Spring 2026.

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​Above: Llama Lounge 25 at Stanford

​Above: Llama Lounge 24 at Google

​Above: Llama Lounge 23 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.