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Llama Lounge - AI Startup Series
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| Demos by ApertureDB, Avelis Health, CrewAI, Instock, PowerYou, Thesys. |
| SAP AppHaus, 3410 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto |
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Sep 11 (Thu) , 2025 @ 05:00 PM
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| DETAILS |
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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 & 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
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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* & Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang (3 min)
-Welcome Remarks: SAP
-10 AI startup pitches
-Return to demo floors, networking
9:00pm:
Event concludes
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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
-Instock: Robots bringing intelligence to warehouse racking
-PowerYou: AI-powered guide for your emotional strength
-Thesys: Frontend infrastructure for AI Agents
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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.
About Llama Lounge: The AI Startup Event Series
Since April 2023. We feature lightning talks from leading CEOs, government leaders, & industry thought leaders-alongside 10 AI startup pitches & a demo floor for personal demos & relationship-building with AI founders, investors, & corporate AI leaders. The event has been hosted at: Zoom, AWS, GenLab, Stanford, SAP, Canopy, Capgemini, Hanahaus, & birthed at Sunset Squares.
- Watch 1-min drone video of Llama Lounge
- See photos & posts of prior events.
- Logo by Sightbox
- Mentioned in The Atlantic, AdWeek, & Techcrunch
- A signature conch audio call signals event kickoff
- Group photos by ErickD
- No relation to Meta.
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Above Chart: Registered attendee data from Llama Lounge May 2025, this is representative of ecosystem mix)
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Corporate AI Leaders:, who partner with AI Startups:
SAP
Amazon Fulfillment, Robotics
Amazon Pay: Product Leader
Amazon Prime Video & MGM: Applied Science
Amazon AGI: Product
Apple: Strategy Lead
Apple: Machine Learning Engineer
AWS
Consumer Reports: Innovation Labs (AI)
C3 AI: Chief Data Scientist
Cisco Meraki: Computer Vision Engineer
GEICO: Product
Google, multiple AI roles
Google Deep Mind: Product Lead
Hearst: Sr data scientist
HPE: AI ML
IBM
Linkedin: Product
Mazda: Innovation & New Ventures
Meta: ML
Meta: Product Manager
Nvidia: Inception Startup Program
Nvidia ChipNemo: Product Lead
Rivian: SWE
Samsung Research: ML
SoftBank Group Telecom America Corp.
SuperMicro
Samsung: Conversational AI DevRel
Volkswagen Group of America: Technology scouting, AI
ZScaler: Director of Data + AI
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VCs & Investors, backers of AI Startups:
Blitzscaling Ventures
2468 Ventures
500 Global
Advantary
Alchemist Accelerator
Alpha Square Group
Alumni Ventures
Arka Venture Labs/Benhamou Global Ventures
Berkeley Angel Network
Canaan
CCV Capital
Dell Tech Capital
Dnipro VC
Draper Associates
EAI Investments
Emergent Ventures
FalconX Ventures
G2C Ventures
Galaxy Ventures
Ganas Ventures
Georgian
Grayscale Ventures
Hat Trick Capital
Inception Studios
InMotion Ventures / Jaguar Land Rover
Jolly Ventures
KFC ventures
LG Technology Ventures
Marubeni Power Ventures
Next 47
Natcast: NSTC Investments
Omni Ventures
Onsen Global
Presidio Ventures
Qualcomm Ventures
Race Capital
Ringcentral Investments
Script Assets
Shack15 Ventures
Shucker VC
Sky9 Capital
Techstars
Unpopular Ventures
Wild Tree Ventures
Wipro Ventures
XY Ventures
...more to come
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