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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Let’s Make History — the Largest GenAI Startup Event in the South Bay

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Llama Lounge celebrates its 2-year anniversary —founded in April 2023

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

- Event Founder: 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:
-Group photo by Erick Davidson (1 min)
-Conch Call* and Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang (3 min)
-Welcome from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom (5 min)
-Remarks from San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan (5 min)
-10 AI startup pitches, MC: Product Hunt CEO, Rajiv Ayyangar (20 min)
-Return to demo floors, networking

9:00pm:
Event concludes

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Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:

Demo Pitch Emcee: Rajiv Ayyangar CEO of Product Hunt

- Amolino: AI for sales forecasting & deal execution
- Clika: Compress for smaller, faster, hardware-ready
- Daero: Obsessively field-centric AI for construction
- Fetch AI: Platform for agent search and discovery
- InOrbit: AI-powered robot orchestration platform
- Marketrix: Let your software support itself
- Rtvr: Make your browser self-driving
- Streamalive: AI that transforms chat into engagement
- ThingLink: Immersive learning made easy
- Vimes: ⁠Crisis intervention software to save kids’ lives

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: The AI Startup Event Series

Since April 2023. We feature lightning talks from leading CEOs, government leaders, and industry thought leaders—alongside 10 AI startup pitches and a demo floor for personal demos and relationship-building with AI founders, investors, and corporate AI leaders. The event has been hosted at: Zoom, AWS, GenLab, Stanford, SAP, Canopy, Capgemini, Hanahaus, and birthed at Sunset Squares.

- Watch 1-min drone video of Llama Lounge
- See photos and posts of prior events.
- Logo by Sightbox
- Mentioned in The Atlantic, AdWeek, and Techcrunch
- A signature conch audio call signals event kickoff
- Group photos by ErickD
- No relation to Meta.
#LlamaLounge

Above Chart: Registered attendee data as of May 15th (one week before the event)

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Corporate AI Leaders:, who partner with AI Startups:

  1. Zoom: Execs, Product team, Ecosystem team

  2. Adobe, Engineering Management

  3. Adobe: Lead software engineer

  4. Albertsons: Sr Machine Learning Engineer

  5. Amazon: SWE

  6. Amazon: Business Leader Amazon Pay Product

  7. Amazon: MLE @ Amazon Search Science & AI

  8. Apple, Global Program Stratey

  9. AWS: Director, AWS AI Devices

  10. Bytedance: Director of global patnership

  11. C3 AI, Vice President and Chief Data Scientist

  12. Cisco: Head of Products AI/ML, Speech and Computer Vision

  13. Cisco: Product Manager

  14. Coupa: AI Center of Excellence

  15. Datadog: Head of AI products

  16. Fujitsu Research of America: Alliances

  17. Google, Open Source

  18. Google, Senior Software Engineer

  19. Google, Sr Engineering Manager at Google Colab

  20. HP: Principal AI Solutions Architecture

  21. HPE: SR Marketing Manager

  22. JETRO: Startup relations

  23. IBM: Vice President, Product Management

  24. IBM: Head of Community, AI Alliance

  25. IBM: Artificial Intelligence Researcher

  26. IBM: Software Engineer II, Enterprise AI

  27. Intel: AI research lab

  28. Intel: Engineering

  29. Linkedin: Senior Software Engineer

  30. Lucid Motors: Engineering & Program Management

  31. Mazda Motor Corporation, Innovation & New Ventures

  32. Megagon Labs, Head of Product

  33. Meta, Director, AI Infra Ecosystem and Partnerships

  34. Meta, Product Manager Lead

  35. Meta, Product Manager, AI

  36. NRI: Software Architect

  37. Nvidia: Inception program

  38. Nvidia: Software engineers

  39. Oracle: Software Architect

  40. Palo Alto Networks, TPM

  41. Palo Alto Networks: AI Product Leader

  42. Panasonic: Global Strategy & Transformation

  43. QA, Head of Channels and Ecosystems

  44. Rakuten Symphony, President of Unified Cloud Biz

  45. Salesforce, Sr Director Products

  46. Swisscom Outpost, VP Technology & Innovation

  47. Thesis Capital

  48. UCSC: Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development

  49. ViaPath Technologies: VP of R&D

  50. Volkswagen:, AI Open Innovation & Technology Strategist

  51. Zoominfo, Enterprise Architect

  52. ...more to come

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VCs and Investors, backers of AI Startups:

  1. Blitzscaling Ventures

  2. 10vc

  3. 500 Global

  4. Advantary

  5. AE Investments

  6. Airbus Ventures

  7. AutoTech Ventures

  8. Avenir

  9. BDev Ventures

  10. Berkeley Angel Network

  11. Berkeley SkyDeck

  12. Breakthrough Ventures

  13. Converge VC

  14. Cota Capital

  15. DCG Ventures

  16. DCM Ventures

  17. Dell Tech Capital

  18. Diversity Venture Capital

  19. Dnipro VC

  20. DST Global

  21. Edgerunner Ventures

  22. Embedding VC

  23. Everest AI Ventures

  24. Fetch AI

  25. Forward Deployed VC

  26. G2C Venture Partners

  27. Ganas ventures

  28. Galaxy Ventures

  29. GIC: Gov of Singapore

  30. HP Tech Ventures

  31. HealthTech Capital

  32. Hesperian Ventures

  33. How Women Invest

  34. Inception Studios

  35. Informed Ventures

  36. Insight Partners

  37. Jolly VC

  38. Juniper Ventures / Perplexity Fellow

  39. KX Horizon (KXVC)

  40. LaMarka

  41. MS&AD Ventures

  42. Omni Ventures

  43. Ottomate Global

  44. Pacific 8 Ventures

  45. PodiumVC

  46. Presidio Ventures

  47. Principal Venture Partners

  48. Qualcomm Ventures

  49. Race Capital

  50. Raydiant

  51. Rebellion Ventures

  52. RingCentral Ventures

  53. SHACK15 Ventures

  54. Scale Ventures

  55. Script Assets

  56. Sequoia Capital

  57. ShuckerVC

  58. SignalRank

  59. Singtel Innov8

  60. Speciale Invest

  61. Standard Investments

  62. Samsung Catalyst Fund

  63. Trampoline Venture Partners

  64. Vangal

  65. Venture Builder

  66. VentureXchange Ltd.

  67. Vibranium Ventures

  68. WAVE Ventures

  69. Wipro Ventures

  70. XY Ventures

  71. Zhenfund

  72. ...more to come

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




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
560 Went