Llama Lounge 19: The AI Startup Event Series at SAP Palo Alto

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- 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.

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​Primary Audience: AI Founders:

​-AI Founders: CEOs of AI Startups (majority)
-Investors who back them: VCs, CVCs
-Corporate AI Decision Makers
-See list below

​Above Chart: Data crunched on Aug 19th, 2025
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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 Remarks: SAP
-10 AI startup pitches
-Return to demo floors, networking

9:00pm:
Event concludes

​Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:

​Demo Pitch Emcee: Samuel J Cummings III, AI Content Creator of Generative AI (6M followers)

-ApertureDB: Powering AI with semantics, context, & multimodality
-Avelis Health: Audit medical claims for self-insured employers
-CrewAI: Complete platform for multi-agent automation
-Krane: Smarter supply chain execution, powered by agents
-Instock: Robots bringing intelligence to warehouse racking
-Osly: Automates internal workflows with natural language
-Pixelesq: Cursor for marketing: AI-native enterprise CMS
-PowerYou: AI-powered guide for your emotional strength
-Thesys: Frontend infrastructure for AI Agents
-Vella AI: AI-powered tools for deep work
-SAP AI Table: Meet our hosts, learn about partnerships


Startups can apply to be featured on the demo floor, applications will be considered for the multiple future events that are being planned. Minimum of 3/10 demo slots reserved for women founders, last few events were at parity.

​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

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​Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​SAP

2. ​Adobe: GenStudio Product Manager

3. ​Amazon Fulfillment, Robotics

4. ​Amazon One Medical: Sr SWE

5. ​Amazon Pay: Product Leader

6. ​Amazon Prime Video & MGM: Applied Science

7. ​Amazon AGI: Product

8. ​AWS: GM, Data Foundation (Analytics, Storage, DB)

9. ​Apple: Strategy Lead

10. ​Apple: Machine Learning Engineer

11. ​Audi: Director

12. ​Blue Cross Blue Shield: Product Leader

13. ​Box

14. ​Carta: Engineering Leader

15. ​Consumer Reports: Innovation Labs (AI)

16. ​C3 AI: Chief Data Scientist

17. ​Cisco: Sr Dir Product Management

18. ​Cisco Meraki: Computer Vision Engineer.

19. ​Cisco Meraki: Product Manager

20. ​Cruise/GM: technical lead of mapping

21. ​GEICO: Product

22. ​Google, multiple AI roles, Open source lead

23. ​Google Cloud: Product Manager

24. ​Google DeepMind: Product Lead, TPMs

25. ​Google DeepMind: Research scientist

26. ​Grayscale Ventures

27. ​Hearst: Sr data scientist

28. ​Honda Research Institute, USA

29. ​HPE: AI ML

30. ​Hubspot: Principal MarTech AI Engineer

31. ​IBM: Agents engineer

32. ​Intel: Chief AI Architect

33. ​Intuit: TPM

34. ​Intuit: Head of AI Product Management

35. ​Intuit: Product

36. ​Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: PM

37. ​Linkedin: Product

38. ​LinkedIn: Staff SWE/ML

39. ​Mazda: Innovation & New Ventures

40. ​Menyala (Temasek)

41. ​Meta: ML

42. ​Meta: Product Manager

43. ​Meta: SWE

44. ​Meta: AI Research Scientist

45. ​Microsoft: AI Engineer

46. ​Nvidia: Inception Startup Program

47. ​Nvidia ChipNemo: Product Lead

48. ​OpenText: lead SWE

49. ​Oracle: Data Scientist

50. ​Palo Alto Networks

51. ​Paypal: SWE

52. ​Ringcentral: AI/ML / Data Engineering

53. ​Rivian: SWE

54. ​Samsung Research: ML

55. ​Sandisk: Computer Scientist

56. ​Sandisk: Head of platform development

57. ​Snap: SWE

58. ​SoftBank Group Telecom America Corp

59. ​Snowflake: Director of AI Partnerships

60. ​Stellantis

61. ​SuperMicro

62. ​Samsung: Conversational AI DevRel

63. ​Tesla: Supply Chain Leader

64. ​Tiktok: Sr Product Manager

65. ​Toyota/Woven: Product Manager of Mapping / Lane Keeping

66. ​UK Dept of Business and Trade

67. ​Visa: Product Manager payments

68. ​Volkswagen of America: Tech scouting, AI

69. ​VW: IT lead

70. ​VW: Volkswagen Innovation Center of California

71. ​Walmart: Global Tech SWE

72. ​Walmart: Data Science, Payments

73. ​Walmart: PMO

74. ​Wells Fargo: SVP of Product Management AI

75. ​Whirlpool corporation: DevOps Engineer

76. ​ZScaler: Director of Data + AI

77. ​Zoox

​VCs and Investors, backers of AI Startups:

1. ​Blitzscaling Ventures

2. ​2468 Ventures

3. ​500 Global

4. ​Advantary

5. ​Alchemist Accelerator

6. ​Alpha Square Group

7. ​Alumni Ventures

8. ​Arka Venture Labs

9. ​Battery Ventures

10. ​Benhamou Global Ventures

11. ​Berkeley Angel Network

12. ​Berkeley Venture Capital

13. ​Blackstone

14. ​Blume Ventures

15. ​Boundless Ventures

16. ​Canaan

17. ​CCV Capital

18. ​Converge

19. ​Dell Tech Capital

20. ​Diversis Capital

21. ​Dnipro VC

22. ​Docomo Innovations

23. ​Draper Associates

24. ​DRIVE Catalyst

25. ​EAI Investments

26. ​Emergent Ventures

27. ​Escape Investment Management

28. ​FalconX Ventures

29. ​G2C Ventures

30. ​Galaxy Ventures

31. ​Ganas Ventures

32. ​Georgian

33. ​Grayscale Ventures

34. ​Ground Capital

35. ​Hat Trick Capital

36. ​Hesperian Ventures

37. ​Hitachi Ventures

38. ​Hustle Fund

39. ​Inception Studios

40. ​InMotion Ventures / Jaguar Land Rover

41. ​January Capital

42. ​J2

43. ​Jolly Ventures

44. ​KFC ventures

45. ​Lamarka

46. ​Llama Venture

47. ​LG Technology Ventures

48. ​Marubeni Power Ventures

49. ​Mitsui Global Investment

50. ​Mosaic Ventures Lab

51. ​MS&AD Ventures, Inc

52. ​Next 47

53. ​Natcast: NSTC Investments

54. ​NGP Capital

55. ​Obvious Ventures

56. ​Omni Ventures

57. ​Onsen Global

58. ​Outpost Capital

59. ​Pano Ventures

60. ​Pegasus Angel and Accelerators

61. ​Presidio Ventures

62. ​Progressive Ventures

63. ​Qualcomm Ventures

64. ​Race Capital

65. ​Redpoint Ventures

66. ​Ringcentral Investments

67. ​Rogue Venture Fund

68. ​RPS Ventures

69. ​Sageview Capital

70. ​Script Assets

71. ​Seido Capital

72. ​Sky 9 Capital

73. ​Shack15 Ventures

74. ​Shucker VC

75. ​Sky9 Capital

76. ​SOSV

77. ​Sprintly Partners

78. ​Techstars

79. ​TQ Ventures

80. ​Unpopular Ventures

81. ​VU Venture Partners

82. ​Wild Tree Ventures

83. ​Wipro Ventures

84. ​XY Ventures

85. ​...more to come
    
    

​Above Photo: Llama Lounge 18 at Zoom

​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

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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.