Llama Lounge 26: The AI Startup Event Series @ Microsoft

- 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: Microsoft
-Remarks: Fireworks AI
-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: Valerie Bertele, AI & Startups Growth @Microsoft

AI Startups to Pitch and Demo:

1. AIX Global: Adaptive execution intelligence for AI & quantum

2. Chimeboard: Simulate audience behavior for consumer marketing

3. Entrapeer: Strategic decision-making engine for enterprises

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

5. Gofer AI: Data infrastructure for humanoid robot manipulation (Breakthrough Ventures)

6. Orbitax: Agentic AI for international tax compliance

7. Oway: The coordination OS for the physical economy (YC)

8. Pageform AI: Agentic data room for diligence & deals

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

10. Sun: The future of audio content (Blitzscaling Ventures)

11. Wrnt: Infrastructure for stock warrants, equity’s third channel

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

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: Google, AWS, Microsoft, Zoom, 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 Registered for This Event:

1. Blitzscaling Ventures

2. 434 VC

3. 500 Global

4. AB Plus Ventures

5. Alchemist Accelerator

6. Angel Hub Ventures

7. Angel launch

8. Alumni Ventures

9. Autotech Ventures

10. Base Ventures

11. Banktech Ventures

12. Berkeley Angel Network

13. BGV

14. Bosch Ventures

15. Breakthrough Ventures

16. Builders VC

17. Canastra Ventures

18. CCV Capital

19. Converge VC

20. Cota Capital

21. Decasonic

22. Dnipro VC

23. Earthseed/Wildseed Capital

24. EDCAPIT / ITCAPITAL Ventures

25. Elevation Capital

26. Entrepreneurs First

27. Entrepreneur Ventures

28. Exposition Ventures

29. Frontier syndicate

30. Future Energy Ventures

31. Gaingels

32. Galaxy Ventures

33. Ganas Ventures

34. G2C Ventures

35. Haas Impact Fund

36. Halfcourt Ventures

37. Han River Partners

38. Hat Trick Capital

39. Humain VC

40. Hustle Fund

41. J-Ventures

42. JMoon Ventures

43. JETRO

44. Jolly VC

45. KDDI

46. Icon Ventures

47. Inception Studios

48. InMotion Ventures | Jaguar Land Rover

49. LG Tech Ventures

50. Lolar Ventures

51. Luminar Ventures

52. Luxor Group

53. Macquarie Group

54. Mazda Ventures

55. Mavka Ventures

56. Maxitech Ventures

57. MIT Angels

58. Mitsubishi Research Institute

59. N2N capital

60. N74

61. Navis Capital LLC

62. Naver D2SF

63. NextStar Venture Partners

64. Neythri Futures Fund

65. NFX

66. Omni Ventures

67. Oxford Science Enterprises

68. Plug and Play

69. PodiumVC

70. Powerhouse Ventures

71. Precursor Ventures

72. Presidio Ventures

73. Qualcomm Ventures

74. Riceberg Ventures

75. Ring Central Ventures

76. Samsung NEXT Ventures

77. Sand Hill Angel

78. Shucker VC

79. Sony Ventures

80. Solaris Venture Partners

81. Starlite VC

82. SynVesCo Ventures

83. TDK Ventures

84. Tencent Investments

85. Thomvest

86. Trois Invest

87. UP Partners

88. UpscaleX

89. TechLAB Innovation Center

90. Venrock

91. Z Venture Capital

92. ...more to come

Corporate AI Leaders, who Partner with AI Startups, Registered for This Event:

1. Microsoft

2. Adobe

3. Amazon

4. Apple

5. Argentina at Silicon Valley

6. Acquia

7. Audi

8. Booz Allen Hamilton

9. Broadcom

10. C3

11. Cepheid

12. Chase

13. Cisco

14. Coupa Software

15. Department of Justice

16. Denso

17. Franchise tax board

18. Google

19. HarperCollins

20. Hanger

21. IBM

22. Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)

23. Infineon technologies AG

24. Intuit

25. INNOVIT-Italian Innovation Hub

26. Japan Cabinet Office Project

27. John Deere

28. JP Morgan

29. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

30. Lam Research

31. Lucid Motors

32. Marubeni

33. Mercedes Benz

34. Mitsubishi HC Capital America

35. Nvidia

36. NTT

37. Office of the Denmark’s Tech Ambassador

38. Oracle

39. Palo Alto Networks

40. Qualcomm

41. Rackspace

42. Roku

43. Schaeffler

44. Snowflake

45. Stanford University

46. Swissnex San Francisco

47. Tesla

48. TikTok

49. Toyota

50. Verizon

51. VW

52. Walmart

53. Wells Fargo

54. ZoomInfo

55. ...more to come

Above: Llama Lounge attendees by role, Spring 2026.

Above: Llama Lounge 25 at Stanford

Above: Llama Lounge 24 at Google

Above: Llama Lounge 23 Hackathon at Snowflake

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.