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Sep 20 - Sep 27
 
 
 
 
 
 
Popular Event 
With Valerie Bertele (AI & Startups Growth, Microsoft).
Sep 10 (Thu) @ 05:00 PM       FREE
Microsoft, 1045 La Avenida St, Mountain View

 
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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: Microsoft
-Remarks: Fireworks AI
-10 AI startup pitches
-Group photo by Erick Davidson (1 min)
-Return to demo floors, networking


8:30pm:
Event concludes

Startup Pitch Emcee: Valerie Bertele, AI & Startups Growth @Microsoft

AI Startups to Pitch & Demo:

AIX Global: Adaptive execution intelligence for AI & quantum

Chimeboard: Simulate audience behavior for consumer marketing

Founding.Dev: Replace expensive SaaS subscriptions with your own tools (Antler)

Gofer AI (Breakthrough Ventures)

Sante: AI infrastructure for biological risk intelligence (Breakthrough Ventures)

Sun: The future of audio content (Blitzscaling Ventures)

Wrnt: Infrastructure for stock warrants, equity's third channel

Open Slot: Apply to demo

Open Slot: Apply to demo

Open Slot: Apply to demo

Meet the Microsoft team at their booth
Apply to demo at future events


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: Google, AWS, Microsoft, Zoom, 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

VCs & Investors, backers of AI Startups:
Blitzscaling Venture

500 Global

AB Plus Ventures

Alchemist Accelerator

Angel Hub Ventures

Angel launch

Alumni Ventures

Autotech Ventures

Base Ventures

Berkeley Angel Network

BGV

Bosch Ventures

Breakthrough Ventures

CCV Capital

Converge VC

Cota Capital

Department of Justice

Decasonic

Earthseed/Wildseed Capital

EDCAPIT / ITCAPITAL Ventures

Entrepreneur ventures

Frontier syndicate

Future Energy Ventures

Gaingels

Galaxy Ventures

Ganas Ventures

G2C Ventures

Han River Partners

Hat Trick Capital

JETRO

Jolly VC

Icon Ventures

Inception Studios

InMotion Ventures | Jaguar Land Rover

LG Tech Ventures

Lolar Ventures

Luminar Ventures

Mazda Ventures

Mavka Ventures

Maxitech Ventures

MIT Angels

Mitsubishi Research Institute

N74

Navis Capital

NextStar Venture Partners

NFX

PodiumVC

Powerhouse Ventures

Precursor Ventures

Presidio Ventures

Riceberg Ventures

Ring Central Ventures

Samsung NEXT Ventures

Sand Hill Angels

Sony Ventures

Solaris Venture Partners

SynVesCo Ventures

TDK Ventures

Thomvest

UpscaleX

TechLAB Innovation Center

Z Venture Capital

...more to come

Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:
Microsoft

Adobe

Amazon

Apple

Argentina at Silicon Valley

Booz Allen Hamilton

Broadcom

C3

Cepheid

Cisco

Coupa Software

Denso

Franchise tax board

Google

HarperCollins

Hanger

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)

Intuit

INNOVIT-Italian Innovation Hub

Japan Cabinet Office Project

JP Morgan

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lam Research

Lucid Motors

Marubeni

Mitsubishi HC Capital America

Nvidia

Office of the Denmark's Tech Ambassador

Oracle

Palo Alto Networks

Qualcomm

Rackspace

Schaeffler

Snowflake

Stanford University

Tesla

TikTok

Verizon

VW

Wells Fargo

ZoomInfo

...more to come
 
 
 
 
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