Llama Lounge 17: The AI Startup Event Series at Stanford
- Organizer: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (Linkedin).
- Ten AI Startups on demo floor, networking, food & bev.
- Gov ID required for entry. Must be registered and approved.
- Hosted by: Stanford University
- Backed by:
— Burton Algorithms
— Stanford Black in Computer Science
— Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
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Primary Audience: AI Founders:
-Majority: AI Founders
-Investors who back them
-Corporate AI Partners.
Meet Stanford Students for 2025 Internships at Your Company:
- Stanford Engineering students
- Stanford Computer scientists
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Llama Lounge Agenda:
5:00PM:
-Doors open. meet 10 AI startups
6:30pm:
-Opening Remarks
-Conch Call* and Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang (3min)
-Welcome from Stanford
-Chris Yeh moderates
-Llama Lineup: 10 startups deliver 30 second pitches
-Group photo
-Return to demo floors
9:00pm:
Event ends
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Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:
- Exo AI: AI agents for financial risk analysis
- Glamir AI: Personalized AI beauty partner
- Guiden AI: Enterprise AI Agent Creation Platform
- Potpie: Agents for automating SW development workflows
- Remix AI: Virtual teleportation & spatial intelligence
- Synexis: Deal flow intelligence for investors, startups, enterprises.
- TensorStax: Autonomous AI For Data Engineering
- Open Slot: Apply below
- Open Slot: Apply below
- Open Slot: Apply below
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.
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About Llama Lounge:
Since May 2023. We feature 10 AI Startups on a demo floor for personal demos and relationship building with AI founders, investors, and corporate AI leaders. See photos and posts of prior events. No relation to Meta. Logo by Sightbox. Group photos by ErickD. #LlamaLounge
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Corporate AI Leaders: Who partner with AI Startups:
Burton Algorithms: AI Engineering Firm & our generous sponsor
Acrisure Insurance: Principal
Accenture: SF AI Studio Lead
Adobe: Investor, Corporate AI leader
Amazon: Conversational & Agentic AI Research
Amazon: LLM Inference engineering
Apple: Global Program Strategy
Apple: AI
AT&T: Product Manager, Data, AI
Calix: AI and ML
Capgemeni: Applied Innovation (AI)
C3 AI: VP and Chief Data Scientist
eBay: Software engineering
Ford Motors / Latitude, Machine Learning
Cisco: VP Products, AI
Google: Google Cloud AI
Google: AI Labs
Google: Vertex AI
Google: Open Source (JAX and OpenXLA)
Google: Product Manager
IBM: AI Research
Intuit: Machine Learning
Mazda: Prog Mgr Innovation & Biz Dev
Meta: AI Product Engineer
Meta: Product manager
Meta: Smart Glasses Voice AI
Meta: Llama
Nordstrom: Applied Scientist
Nvidia: Startup Partnerships
Nvidia: AI Agents Partnerships
Palo Alto Networks: Product Management
Philips: Product Engineer
QA: Head of Channels and Alliances
Rivian: Software Engineering
Salesforce: Corporate AI leader
Samsung: AI developer relations
SAP: Global VP Strategic Partnerships
Snowflake: LLM inference platform
SoftBank: AI Business Dev
Swisscom Silicon Valley outpost
Streamlabs (Logitech): Head of Streamlabs
Tesla: Data Engineer
Visa: Product Manager
VW: Tech strategy and open innovation lead
Zoom: Head of Product (AI focused)
Zoominfo: Enterprise Architect
Zurich Insurance Group: Head of AI Governance
VCs and Investors: Backers of AI Startups
Blitzscaling Ventures
2468 Ventures
3M Ventures
500 Global
99VC
Alchemist Acceleator
Alpha Square Group
Alumni Ventures
Arbor Ventures
Argonautic Ventures
Bay Angels
Berkeley SkyDeck
BDev Ventures
Bullpen Capital
Cannelure Partners
Cathay Innovation
CCV Capital
Cota Capital
DST Global
Edgerunner Ventures
Embedding VC
Everest Ventures
FalconX
Flourish Ventures
Foundation Capital
Galaxy Ventures
Ganas Ventures
G2C Ventures - True Blue Partners
GIC: Gov of Singapore Investment Corp
Gotion Inc: CVC
Hanwha Asset Management USA
Hat Trick Capital
Hesperian Ventures/Berkeley SkyDeck
HP Tech Ventures
Icebreaker VC
Inception Studio
Inflect Capital
InMotion Ventures / Jaguar Land Rover
Insight Partners
iSeed Ventures
Juniper Ventures
KFC ventures
M12 (Microsoft)
Maven Ventures
Mayfield Fund
Mighty Capital
Momenta Ventures
MongoDB Ventures & Corp Dev
MS&AD Ventures
Next47
Nvidia Venture Investments
NYX Ventures
Omni Ventures
Outcomes Fund
Overlook VC
Page One Ventures
Pegasus Airlines CVC
Practical VC
Presidio Ventures
Region4
RingCentral Ventures
Qualcomm Ventures
Rebellion Ventures
Sand Hill Angels
Scrum Ventures
Sky9 Capital
shuckerVC
Springcamp VC
Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs
Techstars
Transform VC
True Blue Partners
Vibranium VC
VU Venture Partners
YellowRocks / Sintelis
Zhenfund
*At Llama Lounge, a signature conch audio call signals the community to assemble for opening remarks
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Host an AI event in your city: AI Salon, our sister event series run by my business partner, Jeff Abbott, of Blitzscaling Ventures.