​Llama Lounge 16: The AI Startup Event Series hosted at AWS (Sold out: 400 registered)

​Tue, Feb 6th , San Francisco

​-Organizer: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (X, Linkedin).
-Ten AI Startups on demo floor, networking, food & bev.
-Gov ID required for entry. Must be registered and approved.
-Hosted by AWS Loft, also see their upcoming events.

​Llama Lounge Agenda:

​5:00PM:
-Doors open. meet 10 AI startups
-Meet with AWS, learn about latest solutions

6:30pm:
-Opening Remarks
-Conch Call* and Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang (3min)
-Welcome from AWS (3min)
-Llama Lineup: Ten startups deliver 30 second pitches on stage
-Group photo
-Return to demo floors

9:00pm:
Event ends

​Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:

​- AQ22: Building agentic bank, starting with credit assessment
- Composio: Integration Platform for AI Agents & LLMs
- CrewAI: Complete platform for multi-agent automation
- Greptile: AI code reviewer with full codebase context
- RunSybil: Find vulnerabilities, AI-driven pentester
- Valence Vibrations: Real-time emotion AI for conversational intelligence
- VESSL AI: Orchestration platform for models, agents, and tools
- Open: Apply below
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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 Llama Energy. We feature 10 AI Startups on a demo floor for personal demos and relationship building. See photos and posts of prior events. No relation to Meta. Logo by Sightbox. Group photos by ErickD. #LlamaLounge

​​Corporate AI Leaders: Who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​AWS: our generous host

2. ​Abbvie: Innovative Trial Designs

3. ​Accenture: SF AI Studio Lead

4. ​Adobe: Digital Media Enterprise

5. ​Airbus: Innovation Center, Biz Dev

6. ​Blackrock: AI Champion for Investing

7. ​Cathay Innovation

8. ​Cisco: Engineering

9. ​Cisco Meraki: Computer vision

10. ​Deloitte: AI Leader

11. ​Deutsche Telekom: Sr BD & Partnerships AI

12. ​Google: Numerous AI teams

13. ​Google Deepmind: Research Scientist

14. ​HP: Supply chain data science

15. ​IBM: Product leader

16. ​Intel: Software team

17. ​Intuit: Senior AI Scientist

18. ​KPMG: A Partner

19. ​Mazda: Innovation & new Biz Dev

20. ​McKinsey: Co-leader of AI Trust

21. ​Meta: AI Scientist

22. ​Microsoft: TPM. AI Engineer

23. ​NEC: (Innovation) X, Inc.

24. ​Nvidia: Software engineering

25. ​Oracle: Product Manager. Director of Cloud

26. ​Palo Alto Networks: AI program manager

27. ​Pegasus Airlines: Innovation lab

28. ​Pinterest: Software Engineering

29. ​Salesforce: AgentForce

30. ​ServiceTitan: Dir of Engineering

31. ​Samsung: Dev Rel for Conversational AI

32. ​Sumitomo: VP of Strategy

33. ​Trinet: Partnerships

34. ​Uber: Product Design

35. ​Yahoo!: Software engineering. Research

36. ​Visa: AI/ML, Gen AI

37. ​Volkswagen: USA Tech Strategy & Scouting

38. ​Williams Sonoma: Data Science

39. ​Workday: Product Manager. Partnerships, Strategy

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​VCs and Investors:

1. ​Blitzscaling Ventures

2. ​2468 Ventures

3. ​500 Global

4. ​99VC

5. ​AE Investments

6. ​Akkadian & Raise

7. ​Alaya Capital

8. ​Alpha Square Group

9. ​Alumni Ventures

10. ​Amino Capital

11. ​Arka Venture Labs/Benhamou Global Ventures

12. ​Atlantic Venture Capital

13. ​BAM Corner Point

14. ​Bay Angels

15. ​Bee Partners

16. ​Corenest Capital

17. ​Citi Ventures

18. ​DST Global

19. ​Embedding VC

20. ​Founders Circle

21. ​Foundation Capital

22. ​Galaxy Ventures

23. ​Ganas Ventures

24. ​Geodesic Capital

25. ​GIC

26. ​Google Ventures

27. ​Hat-Trick Capital

28. ​Hanwha Asset Management USA

29. ​Hitachi Ventures

30. ​Inception Studio

31. ​InMotion Ventures

32. ​Indeed Ventures

33. ​Insight Partners

34. ​iSeed Ventures

35. ​IVP

36. ​Izuzu CVC

37. ​Kapor Capital

38. ​KFC ventures

39. ​LEAP Global Partners

40. ​Ludlow Ventures

41. ​Mayfield

42. ​Mentors Fund

43. ​Mighty Capital

44. ​Nazare Ventures

45. ​Next47

46. ​Next Sequence

47. ​Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures

48. ​Open Core Ventures

49. ​Overlook VC

50. ​Page One

51. ​Point72 Ventures

52. ​Presidio Ventures

53. ​Qualcomm Ventures

54. ​Race Capital

55. ​Redpoint Ventures

56. ​Region4

57. ​Resilience Reserve

58. ​RingCentral Ventures

59. ​Section Partners

60. ​Scrum Ventures

61. ​Shack15 Ventures

62. ​shuckerVC

63. ​SoftBank Corp

64. ​Swisscom

65. ​Toppan Global Venture Partners

66. ​TPG

67. ​True Blue Partners

68. ​UP.Labs

69. ​Vertex Ventures

70. ​Vibranium VC

71. ​The Westly Group

72. ​XY Ventures

73. ​YellowRocks VC

​*At Llama Lounge, a signature conch audio call signals the community to assemble for opening remarks

​Above: Llama Lounge 15 at GenLab with Disrupt

​Above: Llama Lounge 14 at SAP

​Above: Llama Lounge 13 at Capgemini

​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.