Llama Lounge 24: The AI Startup Event Series @ Google Deepmind

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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 and 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* and 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 and Demo Tables

​Startup Pitch Emcee: Chappy Asel of AI Collective

​AI Startups to Pitch and Demo:

1. ​AdZen: Advertising platform for LLMs and publishers

2. ​Ambiguous: (a16z) Build AI coworkers that work like teammates

3. ​​Cara (AI Fund): Automated in home assessments for at risk populations

4. ​DiaDia Health: AI medical reasoning platform for women

5. ​Echo: Turning chat conversations into market intelligence

6. ​Lightberry: (YC): Makes robots emotionally intelligent: listen, speak, see

7. ​Open: Apply to demo

8. ​Open: Apply to demo

9. ​Open: Apply to demo

10. ​Open: Apply to demo

​Meet the Google team

​Appeared in Forbes. The Atlantic, AdWeek, Techcrunch, and 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, and industry thought leaders—alongside 10 AI startup pitches and a demo floor for personal demos and relationship-building with AI founders, investors, and corporate AI leaders. The event has been hosted at: Zoom, AWS, GenLab, Stanford, SAP, Canopy, Capgemini, Hanahaus, and birthed at Sunset Squares.

- Watch 1-min drone video of Llama Lounge
- See photos and posts of prior events.
- Logo by Sightbox
- Mentioned in Forbes. The Atlantic, AdWeek, and Techcrunch
- A signature conch audio call signals event kickoff
- Group photos by ErickD
- No relation to Meta.
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​VCs and Investors, backers of AI Startups:

1. ​Blitzscaling Ventures

2. ​7BC Venture Capital

3. ​AI Fund

4. ​Accel

5. ​Alchemist Accelerator

6. ​Alpha Square Group

7. ​Argonautic Ventures

8. ​Bay Angels

9. ​CCV Capital

10. ​Converge VC

11. ​Cota Capital

12. ​Denso

13. ​Dnipro VC

14. ​FalconX

15. ​Fortino Ventures

16. ​G2C Ventures

17. ​GenLab

18. ​Grayscale Ventures

19. ​Han River Partners

20. ​Jolly VC

21. ​LvlUp Ventures

22. ​Mavka Ventures

23. ​Mosaic Venture Lab

24. ​NextStar Venture Partners

25. ​Omni Ventures

26. ​Pachamama Ventures

27. ​PodiumVC

28. ​Presidio Ventures

29. ​Race capital

30. ​Rainfall Ventures

31. ​Region4

32. ​Sancus Ventures

33. ​shuckerVC

34. ​Sophia Business Angels (SBA)

35. ​StartX

36. ​UpScaleX

37. ​...more to come

​Corporate AI Leaders, who partner with AI Startups:

1. ​Google

2. ​Agora

3. ​Amazon

4. ​Any Group

5. ​C3 ai

6. ​Fujitsu

7. ​HP

8. ​Intuit

9. ​Reddit

10. ​Samsung

11. ​Volkswagen Group of America

12. ​Walmart

13. ​Walmart Connect

14. ​Zoom

15. ​...more to come

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​​Above chart: Prior event roles of approved attendees, representative of most Llama Lounge events: the AI leaders

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​Above: Llama Lounge 22 at AWS

​Above: Llama Lounge 21 with Capgemini with Techcrunch Disrupt

​Above: Llama Lounge 20 with Swisscom

​Above Photo: Llama Lounge 19 at SAP Palo Alto

​Above Photo: Llama Lounge 18 at Zoom

​Above Photo: Llama Lounge 17 at Stanford

​Above: Llama Lounge 16 at AWS in SF

​Above: Llama Lounge 15 at GenLab with Disrupt in SF

​Above: Llama Lounge 14 at SAP in SF

​Above: Llama Lounge 13 at Capgemini in SF

​Above: Llama Lounge 12 at CANOPY in SF

​Above: Llama Lounge 11 at AWS in SF

​Above: Llama Lounge 10 at Hanahaus in Palo Alto

​Above: Llama Lounge 9 at Capgemini in SF

​Above: Llama Lounge 8 at GenLab in SF

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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.