​Llama Lounge 13: The AI Startup Event Series

​Hosted at Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE)

​Thur Eve, Sept 26, San Francisco

​-Organizer: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (X, Linkedin).
-Ten AI Startups on demo floor, networking, food & bev.
-Reverse AI pitches from select corporate leaders.
-Gov ID required for entry. Must be registered and approved.
-Hosted by Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange
-Upcoming event: Llama Lounge 14, Oct 10th
-Upcoming event: Llama Lounge 15, Oct 28th

​Llama Lounge Agenda:

​6:30PM:
Doors open. meet 10 AI startups.
Must be on approved list, Gov ID required
Try the immersive Holodeck Experience

7:30pm:
-Opening Remarks
-Conch Call* and overview of AI Agent Ecosystem: Jeremiah Owyang (3min)
-Welcome from Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange (3min)
-Llama Lineup: Ten startups deliver 30 second pitches on stage
-Return to demo floors

9:00pm:
Event ends. groups often self-organize into after-parties.

​Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:

​- AI21 Labs: Building AI systems for the enterprise
- Andi Search: AI search assistant for the next generation
- Conversa: Identify the top 1% of candidates instantly
- Develop Health: AI-powered medication access
- Micro1: AI Recruiter to hire top global talent
- Millis AI: Build next-gen voice agents with 600ms latency
- Props: Experimentation & analytics for AI product teams
- SonicJobs: B2B agents connecting companies to job platforms
- Skyfire: The financial stack for the AI economy
- Trupeer: Ship product videos and docs effortlessly

Startups can apply to be featured on the demo floor. Minimum of 3/10 demo slots reserved for women founders, last few events were at parity.

​About Llama Lounge:

​Big Big Energy. We feature 10 AI Startups on a demo floor for personal demos and relationship building. Read about prior Llama Lounge events (photos, social media reviews). No relation to Meta. Logo by Sightbox. #LlamaLounge

​Corporate AI Leaders: Who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​AbbVie: Data Science

2. ​Airbus: Tech partnerships

3. ​Apple: ML leaders

4. ​Asana: Internal AI team

5. ​Atlassian: AI project

6. ​AWS: ML Engineering

7. ​AWS: Startups Program

8. ​Blackrock: Machine Learning

9. ​ByteDance/TikTok: AI Software Team

10. ​Cisco: Software Engineer, ML

11. ​Deutsche Telekom: Partnerships

12. ​Google: YouTube AI team

13. ​Google: Gemini lead

14. ​Google Deepmind: Product Manager. Partnerships

15. ​HP: VP of AI Models. Partnerships

16. ​IBM (Apptio): Data Platform Product

17. ​Informatica: investment and partnership

18. ​Intuit: SW engineer

19. ​LG NOVA: Director of New Ventures, AI

20. ​Mazda: Innovation & New Biz Dev

21. ​Meta: VR Reality Labs

22. ​Oracle: Cloud

23. ​Reddit: AI Data Partnership lead

24. ​SAP: AI Partnerships

25. ​Trend Micro: Head of AI LAB

26. ​Visa: AI apps

27. ​Williams Sonoma: Marketing Analytics

28. ​Zoom: AI GTM, Data Science
    

​VCs: Who Invest in AI Startups:

1. ​Blitzscaling Ventures

2. ​16VC

3. ​2468 Ventures

4. ​57blocks Capital

5. ​500 Emerging Europe

6. ​500 Global

7. ​Alpha Square

8. ​Alumni Ventures

9. ​Amino Capital

10. ​Avila VC

11. ​Bay Angels

12. ​BlackRock

13. ​Bosch Ventures

14. ​Clear Ventures

15. ​Costanoa Ventures

16. ​Corenest Capital

17. ​DCM Ventures

18. ​Dragon Heart Holdings

19. ​Edgewood Ventures

20. ​Elsa Capital

21. ​Endurance Companies

22. ​EnvisionX capital

23. ​Esalen Ventures

24. ​FalconX

25. ​FPV Ventures

26. ​General Catalyst

27. ​Google Ventures

28. ​Hat Trick Capital

29. ​Hike Ventures

30. ​Hitachi Ventures

31. ​HP Tech Ventures

32. ​InMotion Ventures | Jaguar Land Rover

33. ​Kapor Capital

34. ​Kubera Venture Capital

35. ​Indeed Ventures

36. ​iSeed Ventures

37. ​Laidlaw & Company

38. ​Lightspeed Ventures

39. ​Liquidmetal VC

40. ​Loyalty Ventures

41. ​MDSV capital

42. ​Mighty Capital

43. ​Ms&ad ventures

44. ​M12 (Microsoft)

45. ​NGP Capital

46. ​OM Fund

47. ​Outlander VC

48. ​Presidio Ventures

49. ​Propel VC

50. ​Qualcomm Ventures

51. ​Rampersand

52. ​Rebellion Ventures

53. ​Scale Venture Partners

54. ​Scrum Ventures

55. ​Sequoia Capital

56. ​Shack 15 Ventures

57. ​shuckerVC

58. ​SoftBank

59. ​SparkLabs Group

60. ​Sorenson Capital

61. ​Structure Capital

62. ​Samsung Next

63. ​Techstars

64. ​Upscaler VC

65. ​Vibranium

66. ​VU Venture Partners

​*At Llama Lounge, a signature conch audio call signals the community to assemble for opening remarks. It's loud, it's memorable, it's ridiculous.

About Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange
Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange is a global platform for innovation. It brings together a framework for action, a network of exchanges, and a rich and diverse ecosystem of experts, startups, alliance partners, and Capgemini’s own capabilities, to deliver the pinnacle innovation engagement experience.

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​Above: Llama Lounge 12 at CANOPY

​Above: Llama Lounge 11 at AWS

​Above: Llama Lounge 10 at Hanahaus

​Above: Llama Lounge 9 at Capgemini

​Above: Llama Lounge 8 at GenLab


Host an AI event in your city: AI Salon, our sister event series run by my business partner, Jeff Abbott, of Blitzscaling Ventures.