Llama Lounge Agentic Hackathon:

We completed the first Llama Lounge Agentic Hackathon.

Over 150 developers participated, forming roughly 25 teams that built real agentic systems in two-days. The winner received $5k and the (almost) Gold Llama, featured in my hands see photo.

Teams leveraged:

• Composio to connect live data and external services

• CrewAI to orchestrate multi-step agent workflows

• Skyfire to enable agentic payments, identity verification, and real transactions

• All three are portfolio companies of Blitzscaling Ventures where I’m a VC.

This was not theoretical. These were working systems built on real infrastructure.

We were hosted by the Snowflake team in their SVAI Loft, overlooking the Valley and the Bay. Participants were provisioned Snowflake accounts and given access to premium datasets, allowing them to move quickly from concept to implementation. Big thanks to Elsa Mayer, Chad Chalker and Ivanna Hernandez and Cerebral Valley for the operational support.

Thank you to the many first round judges from the partners and Y Combinator, and the many expert judges including Chris Yeh, Itbaan Nafi, Linda Lee, Amir Sarhangi. João (Joe) Moura, Lynn Duan, Ivy Nguyen, Sushmitha Mallesh, Grace Gong

When I started Llama Lounge nearly three years ago, it was primarily a pitch event. It has since evolved into something broader: an ecoystem where builders test the limits of agentic AI in live environments.

Next event: March 19th, 2026 Llama Lounge is nearly sold out, hosted at Google.