- 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: Peter Danenberg, Google DeepMind
-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:

AdZen: Advertising platform for LLMs and publishers
Ambiguous: (a16z, Blitzscaling) Build AI coworkers that work like teammates
Cara (AI Fund): Automated in home assessments for at risk populations
DiaDia Health: AI medical reasoning platform for precision & root-cause care
Echo: Turning chat conversations into market intelligence
Fastshot (YC): Autonomous AI mobile app builder
Fetch AI: Personal social AI - connect, discover, monetize agents
Glam AI: Entry-level consumer AI content platform
Lightberry: (YC, Blitzscaling): Makes robots emotionally intelligent: listen, speak, see
Vidably (AI Fund): Human evidence for AI commerce

Meet the Google 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: 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:

Blitzscaling Ventures
500 Global
7BC Venture Capital
Acorn Pacific Ventures
AI Fund
Accel
AGI House Ventures
Alchemist Accelerator
Alpha Square Group
Argonautic Ventures
Bay Angels
Benhamou Global Ventures
Berkeley Angel Network
Blackwood
Bosch Ventures
Bridge Associates
Bullpen Capital
CCV Capital
Cisco
Converge VC
Cota Capital
Denso
DG Daiwa Ventures
Diversity VC
Dnipro VC
FalconX
Fika Ventures
Financial Freedom Fellows
Fortino Ventures
Fusion Fund
G2C Ventures
Galaxy Ventures
GenLab
Go Global World
Google Ventures
Grayscale Ventures
Han River Partners
HeavyBit
Heliad
Hui Capital
Jolly VC
KASIKORN
KBTG CVC
LvlUp Ventures
Mavka Ventures
Mercurius Media Capital
Mosaic Venture Lab
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Ventures
Nemway Ventures
Neurone
NextStar Venture Partners
NTT Docomo Ventures
Omni Ventures
Pachamama Ventures
PG&E
Plug and Play
PodiumVC
Presidio Ventures
RA Capital
Race capital
Rainfall Ventures
Region4
Relentless
Ring Central Ventures
Samsung NEXT Ventures
Sancus Ventures
Selcouth Capital
Shack15 Ventures
shuckerVC
SK Telecom CVC
Sony Ventures
Sophia Business Angels (SBA)
Sorenson Capital
StartX
Sunstone Manage
Tencent Investments
UpScaleX
Z Ventures
ZVC Ventures
...more to come

Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:

Google
49ers
AbbVie
Adobe
Agora
AMD
Amazon
Anthropic
Any Group
Apple
Arista
Atlassian
Autodesk
Audi
Baird
C3 ai
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Gov)
Coupa Software
Deloitte
Dialpad
Docomo Innovations,Inc.
EA
Ford
Fujitsu
Genentech
Google
Highmark Health
Hitachi
Honda
HP
Hubspot
Intuit
JP Morgan
Mazda
Meta
Microsoft
NASA
Northrop Grumman
Nvidia
OpenAI
OpenText
Pegasus Airlines Innovation
PG&E
Pinterest
Primal Pet Group
Rackspace
Reddit
Rivian
Sonos
S&P Global
Samsung
Salesforce
ServiceNow
Siemens Healthineers
Swisscom
Snowflake
Tesla
TIkTok
Trinet
Uber
UBS
Volkswagen Group of America
Walmart
Walmart Connect
Wells Fargo
Workday
Yelp!
Zoom
...more to come

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

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.

Llama Lounge 24: The AI Startup Event Series @ Google Deepmind