Category: Startup Spotlight

Today, we are announcing the AWS GenAI Lofts, a global tour of pop-up collaborative spaces and immersive experiences for startups and developers. Learn more about our commitment to making it easy for developers of all skill levels to build and scale generative AI applications.

Since day one, AWS has helped startups bring their ideas to life by democratizing access to the technology powering some of the largest enterprises around the world including Amazon. These startups have the ability to transform industries and shape the future, which is why today we announced a commitment of $230 million to accelerate the creation of generative AI applications by startups around the world. Read to learn how to apply to become a member of this global program.

Handpicked from a pool of hundreds of applicants, 23 startups embarked on an exciting journey through the AWS and Crowdstrike Cybersecurity Accelerator. Today, meet the winner and startup finalists changing the face of security.

In 2020, Boosted.ai expanded their artificial intelligence (AI)-powered financial analysis platform—Boosted Insights. But using an LLM came with some significant drawbacks—a high annual cost to operate and GPU capacity limitations that limited their ability to scale.

What if artificial intelligence (AI) could augment our ability to really listen and truly relate to others? What if technology could draw upon our collective lived experiences and help us be more human to each other? These are the questions Dr. Grin Lord, clinical psychologist and founder of conversation analytics company mpathic, has spent the last 15 years chasing.

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words – and, according to Forrester Research, a minute of video may be worth 1.8 million words. For businesses ranging from ecommerce to social media, visual content is worth more than the amount of words that it conveys: it is an opportunity to build customer engagement, increase trust and safety, enhance personalization, and glean actionable insights based on content engagement. Coactive helps data practitioners derive rapid insights from unstructured data at scale and with minimal supervision. Accessible by user interface or APIs, the platform’s capabilities range from intelligent search to production analytics that use the full power of SQL.

For Flodesk, it has always been about flipping the narrative. The company has strong roots in design—they were an early leader in dreaming big about how beautiful emails can be. The oxymoron formed by “beautiful” and “emails” built the foundation of what would become Flodesk. Read on to learn more about their story.

Machine learning (ML) startups are often heavy compute users, because they train large models using high-end GPUs and deploy them at scale for inference. AWS Startups partners with startups from inception to IPO, and has helped thousands of founders and artificial intelligence (AI) innovators build their businesses on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Amazon […]

Learn how Crate, an innovative generative AI startup founded by CEO Anna Bofa, builds their app on AWS to offer users an online storage system inclusive of all forms of digital artifacts.

Sign-Speak is an innovative startup whose language software recognizes American Sign Language (ASL) and translates it into spoken words (and vice versa) with machine learning. Their platform offers real-time ASL recognition, avatar, and transcription to facilitate communication with Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals. Sign-Speak leveraged the AWS Impact Accelerator Latino Founders cohort to gain technical and business support as they make the world a more accessible and inclusive place.