HanaHaus hosted Llama Lounge 10: Enterprise AI
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I’m the organizer of the Llama Lounge AI Startup Event Series, which has now completed ten events in about a year. The format celebrates AI founders, features them at demo stations, 30-second pitches, and we invite over 50 VCs (estimated over $100B in assets under management in the room), and AI leaders from business, gov, media, and influencers. Over 450 startups have applied to demo, and most events have hundreds of people on the waitlist vying for a ticket.
Last Thursday, April 25th, Palo Alto hosted the 10th edition of Llama Lounge at HanaHaus, where a line of founders, investors, and enterprise AI leaders stretched down the street, eager to get in. The famous and iconic HanaHaus is a coworking spot on University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto, a mainstay of the tech community. Tech influencer Robert Scoble was live streaming and recording from a VisionPro.
Event Highlights:
- Pre-Event Gathering: A pre-event across the street was held by 500 Global, which brought together founders and funders, gearing up for pre-event networking.
- Demonstrations: At Llama Lounge, ten Enterprise AI startups took center stage, each given a 30-second pitch to showcase their solutions designed to transform enterprise operations. The demo floor featured live demonstrations, providing real-world examples, and fostered business connections.
- Network Connections: The event included over 200 AI founders, 77 investors (estimated $100B+ in AUM), and 34 large enterprises who integrate or lead AI technology.
- Opening Remarks and our Unique Call to Assemble: The content starts when I signal to the community to assemble by playing a very loud conch shell, followed by opening remarks and then a welcome from Collin Sommerhauser of HanaHaus, our generous host.
- Historic Moment: A Cybertruck rounded the corner in front of HanaHaus, at the historic intersection where Steve Jobs launched the first iPhone at the original Apple Store, adding a layer of history to the event.
- After-Event: At 9 PM, a few dozen attendees headed to the famous Rose & Crown bar in downtown Palo Alto, where many famous founders have spilled beer and plotted out their roadmaps
Ten Enterprise AI Startups Featured as Demo Companies
?-Alecto AI: AI powered online identity infrastructure
–Amolino: Accelerate your sales playbook with AI
–Amplify: Brand-safe conversational marketing at superhuman scale
–Ascendo: Copilot for enterprise service teams
–Digital First: Autonomous marketing strategies with AI
–Nova AI: Automatically generate and run E2E tests
–Partner Element: Contextual intelligence for corporate buyers
–ScaleGrowth: AI Platform for Modern People Experiences
–TalentGenius: AI career success platform for tech pros
–Vidoc: AI Security Engineer
A Cybertruck pulled up, which is in front of the original Apple Store where Steve Jobs launched the iPhone 1, this was a historic moment on a historic intersection.
I kicked off the opening remarks: finding out that many founders are from Europe, Asia, and beyond. Silicon Valley is a place that welcomes all backgrounds and ideas.
Above: Ten AI Founders Demo to hundreds of AI leaders, founders, VCs, and corporate buyers
Collin Sommerhauser head of Hanahaus and SAP leader gives a warm welcome to all attendees.
Demo stations from Ten Enterprise AI Founders
The Ten Founders are Backstage preparing to go on stage to give a 30 second pitch to 300 AI Leaders
I summon the community with the calling of the conch! Yes, a loud, slightly obnoxious, but oh so memorable sound.
I wrote this first draft, and then coaxed GPT4 to create the rest, keeping my point of view and voice.
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WHO ATTENDED:
200 AI Founders Plus the following leaders:
Registered VCs: Who Invest in AI Startups
- Blitzscaling Ventures
- 500 Global
- ACCESS Ventures
- Acorn Pacific Ventures
- Accel
- Accel Impact Ventures
- Altos Ventures
- Architect Capital
- Acquired Wisdom Fund
- BDev Ventures
- Bonds Investment Group, Inc.
- Bootstrap Labs
- Borderless Capital
- Blue Owl Capital
- Canaan Partners
- Cathay Innovation
- Climate Capital
- Davidovs VC
- Edgewood Ventures
- Eminence Ventures
- Enlight Ventures
- FalconX
- Frontiers Capital
- GenLab
- Georgian
- GIC
- GreatPoint Ventures
- Green Bay Ventures
- GSR Ventures
- Han River Partners (HRZ)
- Hilti Venture
- Hitachi Ventures
- Insight Partners
- Intel Capital
- J-Ventures Fund
- J2 Ventures
- JetBlue Ventures
- KIC
- Korea Telecom Investments
- Kubera Venture Capital
- Laconia VC and Vencaptial
- Lobby Capital
- Mach49
- MARL Accelerator
- Marubeni Ventures
- MDSV
- Monochrome Capital
- NEA
- NEC X
- NEC X Venture Studio
- Next47
- NTTVC
- OMERS Ventures
- Plug and Play
- Podium VC
- Practical Venture Capital
- Presidio Ventures
- Prosperity7 Ventures
- Race Capital
- Rebellion Ventures
- RingCentral Ventures
- SoftBank
- Scrum Ventures
- Shucker VC
- Singtel Ventures: Innov8
- Storm Ventures
- Swisscom CVC
- Urth Capital Advisors
- TeamIgnite Ventures
- TPG
- Transform Capital
- Transhuman Capital
- VMware Corporate Ventures
- Wells Fargo Strategic Capital
- Wipro Ventures
- Yamaha Motor Ventures
- Yellow Rocks!
Registered Enterprises: Execs and AI Program Leaders
- SAP
- Adobe
- Agora
- Ancestry
- Apple
- Atlassian
- Autodesk
- Cisco
- Coupa
- Goodwin
- IBM
- Intel
- J.P. Morgan
- Mastercard
- Meta
- Microsoft
- MGM Resorts
- Moody’s
- MongoDB
- Mozilla
- NetApp
- Nvidia
- Oracle
- Snowflake
- Stanford
- Swisscom
- Travelers
- USC
- VW
- Williams Sonoma
- Yahoo!
- Zoom
