AWS Startups Blog

AWS had the great privilege of partnering with SomosVC, an extraordinary group of Latino investors, for a panel discussion on building with generative artificial intelligence (AI). Panelists from the venture capital industry share their insights on how to secure funding for your startup, when to incorporate generative AI into your product, and the competitive advantages of being a startup in the generative AI industry.

AWS Startups is excited to announce the inauguration of a global movement, AWS Startups Women’s Demo Week, set to take place annually from November 6th – 10th.

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.

STIGMA is an asynchronous messaging app that connects people who are struggling with strangers who share their lived experience to give them living proof that what they’re going through is something they will get through. Participating in the AWS Impact Accelerator Latino Founder cohort helped STIGMA to come up with solutions that would improve the product experience for their members, while also helping the STIGMA team to hone skills such delivering a compelling pitch to investors.

Learn how Arcadia, a climate technology company, builds on Amazon Web Services to make energy utility consumption data and pricing data accessible and useful to businesses and individuals.

Learn which AWS services can help you to build a generative AI application. The approaches discussed here can help your startup get its product to market as quickly as possible, while maintaining cost efficiency and high performance.

Applications for the Compute for Climate Fellowship are open now! Submit your application before August 31 to be considered and maybe have the opportunity to be showcased at AWS re:Invent conference in November 2023. Applications submitted after September 1 will be considered for development in 2024.

Build a serverless system using nothing but AWS services and a few lines of code. This simple, cost-effective, and scalable solution allows you to focus on the core business logic of your startup, rather than worrying about scaling and maintaining the underlying infrastructure.

Dune, a web3 analytics unicorn founded in 2018, builds on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide a web-based platform that allows people to query public blockchain data and aggregate it into shareable dashboards. By migrating from their multi-cloud setup to go all-in on AWS, Dune significantly lowered their costs while optimizing their ability to build and scale.

This introduction to generative artificial intelligence (AI) for startups explains various approaches to build generative AI applications and reviews their key components.