AWS Global Start-Up Challenge | Semi-Finalists
Big Data & High Performance Computing
Automated Insights, Inc.
North Carolina, USA
Automated Insights is the world leader in producing high-quality narrative content from data. Our technology humanizes Big Data by spotting interesting patterns, trends and key insights and describing those findings in plain English that have the tone and variability of a human writer.
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.
Positive Bioscience
India
Positive Bioscience is a bioinformatics company that provides analysis informed by cutting-edge technology. While our service will help anyone investigating a genetic disease, our specialty is in clinical use of genomics to diagnose and treat cancer. Our aim is to revolutionize medicine by providing an unprecedented level of patient information and treatment options to doctors.
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.
Seven Bridges Genomics
Massachusetts, USA
Seven Bridges Genomics provides a cloud-based service that enables bioinformaticians and biologists to perform highly demanding data analysis for genomics at unprecedented performance, price, and scalability.
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
GoSquared
United Kingdom
GoSquared’s real-time web analytics platform enables businesses and individuals to improve and adapt their online presence faster. Our applications provide a wealth of up-to-the-second metrics that help you gauge exactly how visitors are using and interacting with your application or website, and more importantly, how you can improve and optimize based on this information.
Guidebook
California, USA
Guidebook connects people with places. Using mobile technology, Guidebook enables organizations to improve the experiences they offer their visitors. The benefits of our services can be segmented into informational value, experiential value, and platform-based value.
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.
Chute
California, USA
Chute powers photo and video infrastructure for mobile and web applications. The Chute API provides application developers with dozens of methods to capture and manage photos and videos. We provide a full authentication engine, dynamic image resizing, organization, commenting, liking, sharing, moderation tools, and more. Everything needed to add media handling to a web or mobile app.
Consumer Applications
Appy Couple
New York, USA
Appy Couple is the most magical and stylish way to create and publish your own mobile wedding app (and website). It's private. It's social It's easy. Couples can ensure that guests have everything they could possibly need at their fingertips and stay socially connected—no more patched together solutions of DIY websites, photo sharing apps, social networks and emails: Appy Couple connects the dots and puts it all-together.
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.
Magnasoft NorthStar
India
NorthStar is an integrated child and school bus tracking and monitoring solution that ensures children's safety and security when they travel to and from school. It can track school buses, vans and other vehicles used to transport students It ensures their safety and security, has the ability to notify parents of their child’s impending arrival at pick up and drop off stops, can monitor unsafe driving and reduce transportation costs by optimizing bus routes.
Powhow
New York, USA
Powhow is the first global marketplace and technology platform for live webcam classes. Take fitness, dance, music, arts, cooking, DIY, and crafting classes from the best instructors in the world live from your living room. All you need is wifi and a webcam. Whatever your passion or interest, Powhow has the best in-class expert who can take your skills to the next level.
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.
PlayCanvas
United Kingdom
PlayCanvas aims to be the number one online destination for creating and playing video games. It is a revolutionary, cloud-hosted development and publishing platform, powered by Amazon Web Services. The core of PlayCanvas’ vision is social game development, with collaboration and accessibility being the primary focus.
Smilu, Inc.
California, USA
Smilu is developing ICON: Arena, a head to head sports battle game available on iOS, Windows, and Android powered devices. It is supported by Smilu's device agnostic platform, which deploys games live across formerly incompatible mobile devices. We have also incorporated Amazon's ec2 instances to support live multiplayer games between different mobile carriers, creating total multiplayer compatibility for the first time on mobile.
Claritics Gaming Analytics
California, USA
Claritics Gaming Analytics provides packaged analytics applications for social and mobile games to drive user engagement and game monetization. As games become more robust, they send more data about player behavior. Companies that can scale and sift through that data to improve game design, retention, and monetization inevitably succeed in the long-run.
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