Cover Image for Llama Lounge 18: at Zoom HQ in downtown San Jose
Cover Image for Llama Lounge 18: at Zoom HQ in downtown San Jose
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Llama Lounge celebrates its 2-year anniversary —founded in May 2023!

Above: We will be hosted at Zoom HQ in downtown San Jose


- 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.
- Travel Recommendations:
-- Paid Parking Garage, 325 W San Fernando (Google Maps)
— Short walk from San Jose Caltrain (Google Maps)

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Primary Audience: AI Founders:

-AI Founders: CEOs of AI Startups (majority)
-Investors who back them
-Corporate AI partners

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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 from Zoom leadership (5 min)
-Remarks from San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan (5 min)
-10 AI startup pitches, MC: Product Hunt CEO, Rajiv Ayyangar (20 min)
-Group photo by Erick Davidson (1 min)
-Return to demo floors, networking

9:00pm:
Event ends

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Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:

Demo Pitch Emcee: Rajiv Ayyangar CEO of Product Hunt

- InOrbit: AI-powered robot orchestration platform
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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.

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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:

  1. Zoom

  2. Adobe, Engineering Management

  3. Apple, Global Program Strategy

  4. AWS: Director, AWS AI Devices

  5. C3 AI, Vice President and Chief Data Scientist

  6. Cisco: Product Manager

  7. Google, Open Source

  8. Google, Senior Software Engineer

  9. Google, Sr Engineering Manager at Google Colab

  10. IBM, Vice President, Product Management

  11. Mazda Motor Corporation, Innovation & New Ventures

  12. Megagon Labs, Head of Product

  13. Meta, Director, AI Infra Ecosystem and Partnerships

  14. Meta, Product Manager, AI

  15. Meta, Product Manager Lead

  16. NRI: Software Architect

  17. Nvidia: Inception program

  18. Nvidia: Software engineers

  19. Palo Alto Networks, TPM

  20. QA, Head of Channels and Ecosystems

  21. Salesforce, Sr Director Products

  22. Swisscom Outpost, VP Technology & Innovation

  23. Volkswagen:, AI Open Innovation & Technology Strategist

  24. Zoominfo, Enterprise Architect

  25. ...more to come

VCs and Investors, Backers of AI Startups:

  1. Blitzscaling Ventures

  2. 10vc

  3. 500 Global

  4. Avenir

  5. Cota Capital

  6. DCM Ventures

  7. Diversity Venture Capital

  8. Dnipro VC

  9. DST Global

  10. Edgerunner Ventures

  11. Fetch AI

  12. Ganas ventures

  13. HP Tech Ventures

  14. HealthTech Capital

  15. How Women Invest

  16. Inception Studios

  17. Juniper Ventures / Perplexity Fellow

  18. MS&AD Ventures

  19. Ottomate Global

  20. Pacific 8 Ventures

  21. Presidio Ventures

  22. Qualcomm Ventures

  23. Race Capital

  24. Raydiant

  25. Rebellion Ventures

  26. SHACK15 Ventures

  27. shuckerVC

  28. SignalRank

  29. Singtel Innov8

  30. Trampoline Venture Partners

  31. Vangal

  32. Venture Builder

  33. VentureXchange Ltd.

  34. Vibranium Ventures

  35. XY Ventures

  36. Zhenfund

  37. ...more to come

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

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


Above: Attendee roles at Llama Lounge 17, April 2025.

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.

Location
Zoom Video Communications
55 S Almaden Blvd 6th Floor, San Jose, CA 95113, USA
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