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Popular Event 
Demos by AdZen, Ambiguous, AI Fund, DiaDia Health, Echo, Fetch AI, Glam AI, Lightberry, Vidably.
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
Mar 19 (Thu) , 2026 @ 05:00 PM
FREE
 
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DETAILS

- 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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