Llama Lounge 22: The AI Startup Event Series at AWS Loft SF

​Waitlist-only: As registrants cancel, new applicants will be accepted.

- 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: AWS
-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.

​Ten AI Startups to Pitch and Demo:

1. ​AethexAI: Foundational voice infrastructure for MENA

2. ​Amotions: Real-time emotion AI improving sales & CS

3. ​Cara (AI Fund): Automated in home assessments for at risk populations

4. ​Kanu (a16z): Your AI cloud engineer

5. ​Lightberry (YC): Makes robots emotionally intelligent: listen, speak, see

6. ​Nexxa (a16z): Specialized AI for heavy industries

7. ​Oasiz (a16z): Turn ideas to games with your friends

8. ​Telemetron (YC): AI support & ops for hardware companies

9. ​Trainsit: AI-driven, sustainable modern rail freight solutions

10. ​Zenode: AI copilot for printed circuit boards designers

​Meet the AWS team

​Appeared in Forbes. The Atlantic, AdWeek, and Techcrunch

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. ​500 Global

3. ​7BC Venture Capital

4. ​Acorn Pacific Ventures

5. ​Agate Hound Fund

6. ​AI Fund

7. ​AiSprouts VC

8. ​Alpha Prime Capital

9. ​Aon Investment

10. ​Bay Bridge Ventures

11. ​Berkeley Angel Group

12. ​Cota Capital

13. ​Damac Group

14. ​Fika Ventures

15. ​Figma Ventures

16. ​G2C Ventures

17. ​Gaingels

18. ​Georgian

19. ​Granatus Ventures

20. ​Grayscale Ventures

21. ​Google Ventures

22. ​Han River Partners

23. ​Hanwha Ventures

24. ​Hesperian Ventures

25. ​Ignite Ventures

26. ​Inception Studio

27. ​Insight Partners

28. ​Mesa Partners

29. ​NextStar Venture Partners

30. ​OneValley Ventures

31. ​Onsen Ventures

32. ​Pachamama Ventures

33. ​Podium VC

34. ​Plug and Play

35. ​Presidio Ventures

36. ​Qualcomm Ventures

37. ​Race Capital

38. ​RoundTable Ventures

39. ​SHACK15 Ventures

40. ​Sustainable Impact Capital

41. ​VU Venture Partners

42. ​...more to come

​Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​AWS

2. ​Apple

3. ​Accenture

4. ​Adobe

5. ​BairesDev

6. ​Costco

7. ​Credit Karma

8. ​CVS Health

9. ​Deloitte

10. ​Denso

11. ​Docomo Innovations, Inc.

12. ​EY

13. ​Gap Inc

14. ​Harvard/HBS

15. ​HubSpot

16. ​IBM

17. ​Intuit

18. ​JLL

19. ​J.P. Morgan

20. ​LG

21. ​LinkedIn

22. ​Lucid Motors

23. ​Mazda Motor Corporation

24. ​McKinsey & Company

25. ​Meta

26. ​Microsoft

27. ​Mitsubishi HC Capital America, Inc.

28. ​Mitsubishi Research Institute

29. ​NVIDIA

30. ​OpenAI

31. ​Oracle

32. ​Palo Alto Networks

33. ​Qatar Airways

34. ​Qualcomm

35. ​RingCentral

36. ​Salesforce

37. ​Samsung Electronics

38. ​Samsung NEXT

39. ​Snowflake

40. ​Swisscom

41. ​Tesla

42. ​Uber AI services

43. ​Verizon

44. ​Volkswagen Group

45. ​Williams Sonoma

46. ​Zillow Group

47. ​ZoomInfo

48. ​Zuora

49. ​...more to come

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

​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.