AWS Startups Blog

In Latin America, small businesses and micro-entrepreneurs face significant economic barriers. To combat issues of limited technological knowledge, fears about the process of launching an online store, and uncertainty when it comes to choosing the right platform, Mexico-based Canasta Rosa (Spanish for Pink Basket) is guiding small businesses to success. Spearheaded by CEO Deborah Dana, the startup has a clear purpose: To empower micro and small entrepreneurs to build and scale their businesses.

We’re pleased to announce the launch of AWS IoT EduKit, a program that provides an extensible and easy-to-use reference hardware kit, tutorials, and sample code to quickly get started. To get startups excited about the endless possibilities that come with the EduKit, we’re sponsoring a hackathon that challenges you to reinvent healthy spaces with innovative IoT solutions.

Sumitovant Biopharma seeks to discover the drugs of the future and rapidly get them to the patients who need them. Scientific research is key to their endeavor. To help us bring medicines to market faster, they need to pick out specific insights from the ever-growing body of literature on chemistry, biology, and disease. So they turned to Amazon Comprehend.

Healthcare startup Healthmyne is a pioneer in applied radiomics, the cutting-edge field of extracting novel data and predictive biomarkers from medical images. Through their AI-enabled radiomic solutions, they help organizations access and easily translate ground-breaking radiomic insights into use in cancer research, treatment planning, and clinical management.

In 2019, Dutch fintech startup Floryn started the process to obtain a PSD2 license to also provide customers with insights into their liquidity management and financial health and simplify the customer experience of requesting a business loan. Here’s how they leveraged AWS to do it.

Founded in 2017, AfroLandTV looks to be a “Netflix for African content,” giving African filmmakers a voice and help them share their culture.

Empowering more than 500 lenders with a SaaS-based lending technology platform, AllCloud has changed how technology is perceived by banks and non-banking financial institutes by leveraging cloud technology to scale and stay secure and compliant.

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are a new type of digital asset that seems to be the hot topic of conversation everywhere. NFTs are described as nonsensical by skeptics, digital beanie babies or baseball cards by most, and a revolutionary new idea that will change everything from digital content to the way artists interact with fans by true believers. I’ve worked on NFTs in my role at Origin Protocol and I have already seen first hand how they are game changers in a number of industries. In this blog, I will briefly introduce you to the universe of NFTs and I will also teach you how to mint your own NFTs and sell them on a variety of platforms and marketplaces.

Surefront was designed to unify all tools needed for merchandising, product development, and sales. Officially termed a “unified collaboration management” platform, the cloud-based SaaS solution combines people, product data, and communications in a single space.

While global supply chain can be complicated, Gnosis offers the clarity and tools to effectively manage one’s shipments. Their platform combines data from multiple sources and formats into a single, fully integrated system with the help of AWS. Here’s how they’re doing it.