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Llama Lounge
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| With Peter Danenberg (Google DeepMind), Jeremiah Owyang (Blitzscaling Ventures). |
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Feb 19 (Thu) , 2026 @ 05:00 PM
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FREE |
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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
Bullpen Capital
CCV Capital
Converge VC
Cota Capital
Denso
Dnipro VC
FalconX
Fortino Ventures
G2C Ventures
Galaxy Ventures
GenLab
Google Ventures
Grayscale Ventures
Han River Partners
HeavyBit
Jolly VC
KBTG CVC
LvlUp Ventures
Mavka Ventures
Mosaic Venture Lab
NextStar Venture Partners
Omni Ventures
Pachamama Ventures
PodiumVC
Presidio Ventures
RA Capital
Race capital
Rainfall Ventures
Region4
Samsung NEXT Ventures
Sancus Ventures
Shack15 Ventures
shuckerVC
Sophia Business Angels (SBA)
StartX
UpScaleX
...more to come
Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:
Google
Agora
Amazon
Any Group
C3 ai
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Gov)
Fujitsu
Genentech
Google
HP
Intuit
JP Morgan
Mazda
Microsoft
NASA
Reddit
Samsung
Snowflake
Volkswagen Group of America
Walmart
Walmart Connect
Zoom
...more to come
Above chart: Prior event roles of approved attendees, representative of most Llama Lounge events: the AI leaders
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.
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