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Llama Lounge - AI Startups
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| Demos by AdZen, Ambiguous, AI Fund, DiaDia Health, Echo, Fetch AI, Glam AI, Lightberry, Vidably. |
| Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco |
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Mar 19 (Thu) , 2026 @ 05:00 PM
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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 Leaders:
-AI Founders: CEOs of AI Startups (majority)
-Investors who back them: VCs, CVCs
-Corporate AI Decision Makers
-See list below
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Llama Lounge Agenda:
5:00PM:
-Doors open. meet 10 AI startups
6:30pm:
-Conch Call* & Kickoff: Jeremiah Owyang (3 min)
-Welcome Remarks: Peter Danenberg, Google DeepMind
-10 AI startup pitches
-Group photo by Erick Davidson (1 min)
-Return to demo floors, networking
8:30pm:
Event concludes
Meet 10 AI Startups: Pitch & Demo Tables
Startup Pitch Emcee: Chappy Asel of AI Collective
AI Startups to Pitch & Demo:
AdZen: Advertising platform for LLMs & publishers
Ambiguous: (a16z) Build AI coworkers that work like teammates
Cara (AI Fund): Automated in home assessments for at risk populations
DiaDia Health: AI medical reasoning platform for women
Echo: Turning chat conversations into market intelligence
Fetch AI: Personal social AI - connect, discover, monetize agents
Glam AI: Entry-level consumer AI content platform
Lightberry: (YC): Makes robots emotionally intelligent: listen, speak, see
Vidably (AI Fund): Human evidence for AI commerce
Open: Apply to demo
Meet the Google team
Appeared in Forbes. The Atlantic, AdWeek, Techcrunch, & TED AI
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, & 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 Forbes. The Atlantic, AdWeek, & Techcrunch
- A signature conch audio call signals event kickoff
- Group photos by ErickD
- No relation to Meta.
#LlamaLounge
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VCs & Investors, backers of AI Startups:
Blitzscaling Ventures
500 Global
7BC Venture Capital
Acorn Pacific Ventures
AI Fund
Accel
Alchemist Accelerator
Alpha Square Group
Argonautic Ventures
Bay Angels
Benhamou Global Ventures
Berkeley Angel Network
Bridge Associates
Bullpen Capital
CCV Capital
Cisco
Converge VC
Cota Capital
Denso
DG Daiwa Ventures
Diversity VC
Dnipro VC
FalconX
Fika Ventures
Fortino Ventures
Fusion Fund
G2C Ventures
Galaxy Ventures
GenLab
Go Global World
Google Ventures
Grayscale Ventures
Han River Partners
HeavyBit
Heliad
Jolly VC
KASIKORN
KBTG CVC
LvlUp Ventures
Mavka Ventures
Mosaic Venture Lab
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Ventures
Nemway Ventures
NextStar Venture Partners
Omni Ventures
Pachamama Ventures
PG&E
Plug & Play
PodiumVC
Presidio Ventures
RA Capital
Race capital
Rainfall Ventures
Region4
Ring Central Ventures
Samsung NEXT Ventures
Sancus Ventures
Selcouth Capital
Shack15 Ventures
shuckerVC
Sophia Business Angels (SBA)
StartX
Tencent Investments
UpScaleX
Z Ventures
...more to come
Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:
Google
49ers
AbbVie
Adobe
Agora
AMD
Amazon
Anthropic
Any Group
Apple
Atlassian
Autodesk
Baird
C3 ai
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Gov)
Coupa Software
Deloitte
Dialpad
Docomo Innovations,Inc.
EA
Fujitsu
Genentech
Google
Hitachi
Honda
HP
Hubspot
Intuit
JP Morgan
Mazda
Meta
Microsoft
NASA
Northrop Grumman
Nvidia
OpenAI
OpenText
Pegasus Airlines Innovation
PG&E
Primal Pet Group
Rackspace
Reddit
Rivian
Sonos
S&P Global
Samsung
Siemens Healthineers
Swisscom
Snowflake
Tesla
TIkTok
Uber
UBS
Volkswagen Group of America
Walmart
Walmart Connect
Workday
Yelp!
Zoom
...more to come
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