AWS Global Start-Up Challenge | Finalists
Big Data & High Performance Computing
Mortar Data
New York, USA
Mortar is two things: an open source development framework for building big data pipelines using Hadoop, and a Hadoop platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for executing code written in the Mortar framework on Amazon Web Services’ Elastic MapReduce.
QMedic
Massachusetts, USA
Founded by MIT scientists, QMedic keeps older adults connected, healthy, and safe in the home. QMedic's patent-pending wearable sensing platform passively monitors physical activity, sleep and falls, and provides real-time alerts to caregivers via cloud-enabled devices. QMedic is the first and only solution that continuously samples behavioral data, does not require battery recharge, and can contextualize interactive social and clinical content to the user via a base station in the home.
DemystData
Hong Kong
DemystData helps financial institutions tap into the explosive growth of online, social, and internal data to make better customer decisions. The company’s product, demystdata.com, enables real-time analysis of both consumer and small business profiles allowing for improved interactions as a result of richer, more relevant information. DemystData has offices in Hong Kong and New York.
Business Applications
PlanGrid
California, USA
PlanGrid is a mobile construction blueprint replacement app powered by AWS that provides real-time updates and seamless file synching over Wi-Fi and cellular radio. PlanGrid replaces paper blueprints, brings the benefits of version control to field workers, and is a collaborative platform for sharing construction information like field markups, progress photos and issues tracking.
Poikos
Netherlands
Poikos is a multiple award-winning computer vision systems house which has developed a revolutionary patent-pending technology for imaging and measuring the body in 3D, using consumer grade hardware such as smartphones, tablets and PCs. We are developing a platform for delivery of our technology to partners within the health, bespoke and e-commerce sectors, for a range of new capabilities across all industries.
TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud
Massachusetts, USA
TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud was developed to help save lives, protect product integrity and to ensure global availability of medicines. The TraceLink Business Cloud connects people, processes and information across the global supply network, improving visibility, traceability and performance from raw material supply and manufacturing down to the consumer.
Consumer Applications
LogMyCalls
Utah, USA
LogMyCalls is a marketing analytics and marketing automation platform for the phone. Based on the keywords, phrases and analytics within a call, LogMyCalls gathers analytics, triggers real-time PPC bid optimization, automates lead scoring, triggers mobile remarketing actions and improves close rates--all based on the actual words said during a phone call. LogMyCalls is a service of ContactPoint.
Hive
Australia
Hive is the modern, affordable way for you, your closest family, friends and neighbors to secure and protect the places, people and things you care about most. Hive is easily installed, runs on your existing Wi-Fi network, and is controlled through your mobile device, and can even travel with you. Hive adds the power of your trusted social networks to the world’s first ultra-long life, battery-powered security camera to make it simple to secure your stuff, no matter who you are or where you are.
Wikidot Inc.
Poland
Wikidot.com is a web platform that allows you to start your own wiki-style website within seconds. "Wikis" can be used for personal blogs, community sites, gaming sites, business websites or collaboration spaces for workgroups. Wikidot leverages social features, hosting elements and its ultra-flexible "wiki" language to provide its users with both easy and powerful tools.
Gaming
Bossa Studios Ltd
United Kingdom
Bossa is an award-winning studio built to disrupt the social games market by making asynchronous gameplay obsolete. Our games are designed to be real-time multiplayer, cross-platform (PC, Browser, iOS, Android) all at the same time; it doesn't matter where you and your friends are playing, you should be able to play together!
Grand Cru OY
Finland
Grand Cru is a Helsinki based game developer. Our inaugural game “The Supernauts” will be ready for launch in the first half of 2013 and is a casual take on the very successful Minecraft style of sandbox and creativity fueled game-play. The game is designed with a tablet first mindset and brings easy and intuitive touch-screen controls to a fully customizable 3D world. The Supernauts will be free-to-play and exclusive to iOS mobile devices.
Playblazer
India
Playblazer provides game developers/studios a configurable API that provides instant access to a comprehensive set of pre-built - data models, components and workflows; that enable rapid development of a game server for social & multiplayer games, accessible from any platform.
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