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

​Event Sold Out

- 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.

​AI Startups to Pitch and Demo:

1. ​AethexAI: Foundational voice infrastructure for MENA

2. ​Amotions AI: 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. ​AGI House

7. ​AI Fund

8. ​AiSprouts VC

9. ​Alpha Prime Capital

10. ​Aon Investment

11. ​Ares Management

12. ​Bay Bridge Ventures

13. ​Berkeley Angel Group

14. ​Breakthrough Ventures

15. ​Cathay Innovation

16. ​Cota Capital

17. ​Contrary Ventures

18. ​Damac Group

19. ​Draper TV

20. ​FalconX

21. ​Fika Ventures

22. ​Figma Ventures

23. ​G2C Ventures

24. ​Gaingels

25. ​Georgian

26. ​Granatus Ventures

27. ​Grayscale Ventures

28. ​Google Ventures

29. ​Han River Partners

30. ​Hanwha Ventures

31. ​Hesperian Ventures

32. ​Korea Investment Partners US

33. ​Ignite Ventures

34. ​Inception Studio

35. ​Insight Partners

36. ​InMotion Ventures | Jaguar Land Rover

37. ​Mesa Partners

38. ​NextStar Venture Partners

39. ​NXTP Ventures

40. ​OneValley Ventures

41. ​Onsen Ventures

42. ​Pachamama Ventures

43. ​Podium VC

44. ​Plug and Play

45. ​Presidio Ventures

46. ​Qualcomm Ventures

47. ​Race Capital

48. ​RoundTable Ventures

49. ​Sentinel Global

50. ​SHACK15 Ventures

51. ​Societe Generale

52. ​Sustainable Impact Capital

53. ​TDK Ventures

54. ​VU Venture Partners

55. ​Xirius Venture

56. ​...more to come

​Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​AWS

2. ​Airbnb

3. ​Agora

4. ​Apple

5. ​Accenture

6. ​Adobe

7. ​BairesDev

8. ​Costco

9. ​Credit Karma

10. ​CVS Health

11. ​Deloitte

12. ​Denso

13. ​Deutsche Telekom

14. ​Docomo Innovations, Inc.

15. ​EY

16. ​Fujitsu

17. ​Gap Inc

18. ​Harvard/HBS

19. ​HP

20. ​HubSpot

21. ​IBM

22. ​Intuit

23. ​JLL

24. ​J.P. Morgan

25. ​LG

26. ​LinkedIn

27. ​Lucid Motors

28. ​Manus AI

29. ​Mazda Motor Corporation

30. ​McKinsey & Company

31. ​Meta

32. ​Microsoft

33. ​Mitsubishi HC Capital America, Inc.

34. ​Mitsubishi Research Institute

35. ​NVIDIA

36. ​OpenAI

37. ​Oracle

38. ​Palo Alto Networks

39. ​Qatar Airways

40. ​Qualcomm

41. ​RingCentral

42. ​Salesforce

43. ​Samsung Electronics

44. ​Samsung NEXT

45. ​Schaeffler

46. ​Snowflake

47. ​Stripe

48. ​Swisscom

49. ​Tesla

50. ​Uber AI services

51. ​Verizon

52. ​Volkswagen Group

53. ​Williams Sonoma

54. ​Zillow Group

55. ​ZoomInfo

56. ​Zuora

57. ​...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.