{"id":900003,"date":"2025-03-15T03:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=900003"},"modified":"2025-04-20T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:30:21","slug":"llama-lounge-16-at-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/15\/llama-lounge-16-at-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"Llama Lounge 16 at AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Epic event hosted by Amazon Web Services in downtown San Francisco, all photo by Erick Davidson<\/a>, professional photographer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the official Luma page<\/a>. Amazon Web Services in San Francisco hosted aprox 300 AI founders at the AWS Loft on Feb 6th<\/a>. The event featured 12 demo companies, who each had their own table, and 30 second pitch on stage, which was emceed by the CEO of Product Hunt, Rajiv Ayyangar.

The 12 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– AIMon<\/a>: Rapidly optimize your RAG, LLMs, and Agents
– AQ22<\/a>: Agentic bank, starting with credit assessment
– Composio<\/a>: Integration Platform for AI agents & LLMs
– <\/a>CrewAI<\/a>: Complete platform for multi-agent automation
– Greptile<\/a>: AI code reviewer with full codebase context
– Instead<\/a>: Let AI do your taxes
– LanceDB<\/a>: The database for multimodal AI
– RenderPub<\/a>: GenAI 3D modeling, rendering & virtual tours
– Skyfire<\/a>: AI identity and payments
– Valence Vibrations<\/a>: Real-time emotion AI for conversational intelligence
– VESSL AI<\/a>: Orchestration platform for models, agents & tools
– VOZY<\/a>: AI-powered customer experience automation & insights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above photos by Erick Davidson<\/a>

There was a notable amount of social media created by attendees at this sold out event, click on each

Coffee and NLP<\/a>
Scobleizer<\/a>
Craig DeWitt<\/a>
MikeC on another stellar lineup<\/a>
My video tour of Llama Lounge<\/a>
Patrick Santora gives his review<\/a>
Joao of CrewAI<\/a>
Karan of Composio<\/a>
Opeksoy reviews<\/a>
Scoble posts<\/a>
Mayanktweeted<\/a>
Ethan Cole<\/a>
Timur of AWS<\/a>
Ricardo U<\/a>
vesslai<\/a>
Catherine Kurt<\/a>
Chris Kenton’s excellent review<\/a>
Franklin marcelo<\/a>
Tiarne Hawkins<\/a>
Ozlem Peksoy Bishop<\/a>
Ozlem Peksoy Bishop 2<\/a>
Catherine Kurt<\/a>
Ricardo Marin<\/a>
Maree Beare<\/a>
Hashim Syed<\/a>
Joanna juezhang <\/a>
Katie McMahon<\/a>
Chloe Duckworth<\/a>
mayan<\/a>
jaeman<\/a>
Kelly O<\/a>
Dusan vuksanovic<\/a>
Chad Cook<\/a>
Catherine Kurt<\/a>
Celeny<\/a>
Joanna Zhang<\/a>
Puneet<\/a>
Juliano Murlick<\/a>
Matthieu Soule<\/a>
Luana Helsinger<\/a>
Karan of Composio<\/a>
Jeremiah Owyang my post<\/a>
Jasmine Chen Wang<\/a>

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Corporate AI Leaders: Who partner with AI Startups:<\/strong>
1. AWS: our generous host
2. Abbvie: Innovative Trial Designs
3. Accenture: SF AI Studio Lead. AI R&D Labs
4. Adobe: Digital Media Enterprise
5. Airbus: Innovation Center, Biz Dev
6. Blackrock: AI Champion for Investing
7. Cathay Innovation
8. Cisco: Engineering
9. Cisco Meraki: Computer vision
10. Databricks: SW Engineering
11. Deloitte: AI Leader
12. Deutsche Telekom: Sr BD & Partnerships AI
13. Fujitsu Research of America
14. Google: Numerous AI teams
15. Google Deepmind: Research Scientist
16. HP: Supply chain data science
17. IBM: Product leader
18. IBM: VP Product & Eng for Data, AI
19. Intel: Software team
20. Intuit: Senior AI Scientist
21. KPMG: A Partner
22. Mazda: Innovation & new Biz Dev
23. McKinsey: Co-leader of AI Trust
24. Meta: AI Scientist
25. Microsoft: TPM. AI Engineer
26. NEC: (Innovation) X, Inc.
27. Nvidia: Software engineering
28. Oracle: Product Manager. Director of Cloud
29. Palo Alto Networks: AI program manager
30. Pegasus Airlines: Innovation lab
31. Pinterest: Software Engineering
32. SAP: Partnerships
33. Salesforce: AgentForce
34. ServiceTitan: Dir of Engineering
35. Samsung: Dev Rel for Conversational AI
36. Sumitomo: VP of Strategy
37. Swisscom
38. Trinet: Partnerships
39. Uber: Product Design
40. Yahoo!: Software engineering. Research
41. Visa: AI\/ML, Gen AI
42. Volkswagen: USA Tech Strategy & Scouting
43. Williams Sonoma: Data Science
44. Workday: Product Manager. Partnerships, Strategy<\/p>\n

VCs and Investors:<\/strong>
1. Blitzscaling Ventures
2. 2468 Ventures
3. 500 Global
4. 99VC
5. AE Investments
6. Akkadian & Raise
7. Alaya Capital
8. Alpha Partners
9. Alpha Square Group
10. Alumni Ventures
11. Amino Capital
12. Arka Venture Labs\/Benhamou Global Ventures
13. Atlantic Venture Capital
14. BAM Corner Point
15. Bay Angels
16. Bee Partners
17. Berkeley SkyDeck
18. BIG Ventures
19. Bosch Ventures
20. CCV Capital
21. Corenest Capital
22. Citi Ventures
23. DST Global
24. East Sunshine Ventures
25. Embedding VC
26. Founders Circle
27. Foundation Capital
28. Galaxy Ventures
29. Ganas Ventures
30. Geodesic Capital
31. GIC
32. Good Trouble Ventures
33. Google Ventures
34. Hat-Trick Capital
35. Hanwha Asset Management USA
36. Hitachi Ventures
37. Honeystone Ventures
38. Inception Studio
39. Infrastructure Ventures
40. InMotion Ventures
41. Indeed Ventures
42. Insight Partners
43. iSeed Ventures
44. IVP
45. Izuzu CVC
46. Kapor Capital
47. KFC ventures
48. LEAP Global Partners
49. Ludlow Ventures
50. M13
51. Mayfield
52. Mentors Fund
53. Mighty Capital
54. Nazare Ventures
55. Next47
56. Next Sequence
57. Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures
58. Okta Ventures
59. Open Core Ventures
60. Overlook VC
61. Page One
62. Point72 Ventures
63. Presidio Ventures
64. Qualcomm Ventures
65. Race Capital
66. Redpoint Ventures
67. Region4
68. Resilience Reserve
69. RingCentral Ventures
70. Salesforce Ventures
71. Section Partners
72. Scrum Ventures
73. Shack15 Ventures
74. shuckerVC
75. SoftBank Corp
76. Susa Ventures
77. The NeuroImpact Fund
78. Toppan Global Venture Partners
79. TPG
80. True Blue Partners
81. Truebridge Capital Partners
82. UP.Labs
83. Vertex Ventures
84. Vibranium VC
85. VU Venture Partners
86. The Westly Group
87. XY Ventures
88. YellowRocks VC<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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