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Llama Lounge - AI Startups
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| Demos by AethexAI, Amotions, Cara (AI Fund), Kanu (a16z), Lightberry (YC), Nexxa (a16z), Oasiz (a16z), Telemetron (YC), Trainsit, Zenode.
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| AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, San Francisco |
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Jan 22 (Thu) , 2026 @ 05:00 PM
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Waitlist-only: As registrants cancel, new applicants will be accepted.
- 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: AWS
-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: Rajiv Ayyangar, CEO of Product Hunt.
Ten AI Startups to Pitch & Demo:
AethexAI: Foundational voice infrastructure for MENA
Amotions: Real-time emotion AI improving sales & CS
Cara (AI Fund): Automated in home assessments for at risk populations
Kanu (a16z): Your AI cloud engineer
Lightberry (YC): Makes robots emotionally intelligent: listen, speak, see
Nexxa (a16z): Specialized AI for heavy industries
Oasiz (a16z): Turn ideas to games with your friends
Telemetron (YC): AI support & ops for hardware companies
Trainsit: AI-driven, sustainable modern rail freight solutions
Zenode: AI copilot for printed circuit boards designers
Appeared in Forbes. The Atlantic, AdWeek, & Techcrunch
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.
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VCs & Investors, backers of AI Startups:
Blitzscaling Ventures
500 Global
7BC Venture Capital
Acorn Pacific Ventures
Agate Hound Fund
AI Fund
AiSprouts VC
Alpha Prime Capital
Aon Investment
Bay Bridge Ventures
Berkeley Angel Group
Cota Capital
Damac Group
Fika Ventures
Figma Ventures
G2C Ventures
Gaingels
Georgian
Granatus Ventures
Grayscale Ventures
Google Ventures
Han River Partners
Hanwha Ventures
Hesperian Ventures
Ignite Ventures
Inception Studio
Insight Partners
Mesa Partners
NextStar Venture Partners
OneValley Ventures
Onsen Ventures
Plug & Play
Presidio Ventures
Qualcomm Ventures
Race Capital
RoundTable Ventures
SHACK15 Ventures
Sustainable Impact Capital
VU Venture Partners
...more to come
Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:
AWS
Apple
Accenture
Adobe
BairesDev
Costco
Credit Karma
CVS Health
Deloitte
Denso
Docomo Innovations
EY
Gap Inc
Harvard
HubSpot
IBM
Intuit
J.P. Morgan
LG
LinkedIn
Lucid Motors
Mazda Motor Corporation
McKinsey & Company
Meta
Microsoft
Mitsubishi HC Capital America
Mitsubishi Research Institute
NVIDIA
OpenAI
Oracle
Palo Alto Networks
Qatar Airways
Qualcomm
RingCentral
Salesforce
Samsung Electronics
Samsung NEXT
Snowflake
Swisscom
Tesla
Verizon
Volkswagen Group
Williams Sonoma
Zillow Group
ZoomInfo
Zuora
...more to come
Above chart: Prior event roles of approved attendees, representative of most Llama Lounge events: the AI leaders
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