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- 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.
#LlamaLounge

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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

​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.

Location
AWS Builder Loft
525 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
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