Llama Lounge 18: at Zoom HQ in downtown San Jose

​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

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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

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​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.