Underrepresented Founders

This page highlights underrepresented startup founders breaking boundaries and inspiring a more diverse entrepreneurial landscape.

Women Founders

We're putting a spotlight on startups founded and led by women. Explore a diverse range of ventures - these trailblazing startups showcases the resilience, creativity, and leadership of women entrepreneurs, contributing to the ongoing narrative of progress and equality.

Black History Month

February is Black History Month in the U.S. and Canada. To honor the community’s longstanding contributions, and to promote Black creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, we are featuring Black founders and Black-owned startups for Black History Month 2024. Amazon is dedicated to supporting and creating inclusive experiences for employees, customers, and communities around the world. We hope you will join us this month—and every month—in celebrating Black culture and the individuals who make up a diverse, innovative, and history-making community.

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Discover four Pakistani startups at the forefront of AI/ML

Discover four Pakistani startups at the forefront of AI/ML

Join AWS and Epiphany in the AI/ML Reactor bootcamp, empowering Pakistani startups in AI/ML. Join the innovation journey today!

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Dune builds on AWS to amplify the impact of blockchain data

Dune builds on AWS to amplify the impact of blockchain data

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.

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Arcadia accelerates climate tech innovation while building on AWS

Arcadia accelerates climate tech innovation while building on AWS

Learn how Arcadia builds on AWS to make energy utility consumption data and pricing data accessible and useful to businesses and individuals.

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How Citus Health Uses AWS to Provide Secure and Real-Time Virtual Patient Care

How Citus Health Uses AWS to Provide Secure and Real-Time Virtual Patient Care

Citus Health enables real-time, secure collaboration between health care teams, partners, and families. Learn how they prioritize security and resilience to deliver quality services.

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CelerisTx: Drug Discovery for Incurable Diseases with ML on AWS

CelerisTx: Drug Discovery for Incurable Diseases with ML on AWS

CelerisTx is pioneering adoption of AI on proximity-inducing compounds for targeted protein degradation. Learn how they save developer time and gain quicker insights.

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How Emerald Cloud Lab Is Revolutionizing the Laboratory Using AWS

How Emerald Cloud Lab Is Revolutionizing the Laboratory Using AWS

Emerald Cloud Lab, a highly automated cloud lab, is available to any scientist with an internet connection. See how scalable, on-demand compute helps them meet computational demands.

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Lokavant Creates a Paradigm Shift in Clinical Trial Intelligence with AWS

Lokavant Creates a Paradigm Shift in Clinical Trial Intelligence with AWS

Lokavant is transforming clinical trial intelligence to decrease the time and cost of developing drugs. See how they maintain stability, scale at the right pace, and deliver solutions faster.

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How Amazon SageMaker helps Widebot provide Arabic sentiment analysis

How Amazon SageMaker helps Widebot provide Arabic sentiment analysis

Discover how Widebot leverages Amazon SageMaker for Arabic sentiment analysis. Learn how they enhance customer experiences with advanced NLP techniques.

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Menten AI Leverages AWS, AI, and Quantum Computing to Create New and Improved Drugs

Menten AI Leverages AWS, AI, and Quantum Computing to Create New and Improved Drugs

Menten AI imagines a future of personalized and improved medicine. Learn how they're using AI and quantum computing to transform drug discovery.

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Scaling rapidly with AWS—How SEON achieved 3x growth for 3 years running

Scaling rapidly with AWS—How SEON achieved 3x growth for 3 years running

SEON scaled rapidly for three consecutive years, achieving triple growth each year. Learn how they did it, all without major refactors to their architecture.

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How AWS Supported WOMBO’s Wildly Popular, AI-Powered App

How AWS Supported WOMBO’s Wildly Popular, AI-Powered App

WOMBO's AI-powered app scaled faster than the founders ever imagined. Learn how they managed this hyperscale moment.

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SaaS Founder Series: Dremio’s Journey to Unicorn Status

SaaS Founder Series: Dremio’s Journey to Unicorn Status

Dive into Dremio's journey to unicorn status. Discover key lessons for building successful SaaS and PaaS offerings.

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Accelerating AI/ML scaling and AI development with Anyscale and AWS

Accelerating AI/ML scaling and AI development with Anyscale and AWS

Learn how Anyscale and AWS accelerate AI/ML scaling and AI development to help customers reduce time-to-market and focus on product innovation.

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Alloy’s global identity decisioning platform, built on AWS

Alloy’s global identity decisioning platform, built on AWS

Discover how Alloy's global identity decisioning platform, built on AWS, revolutionizes automation for banks and fintech companies. Learn more now!

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Building serverless on AWS to scale Ramp’s fast-growing finance automation platform

Building serverless on AWS to scale Ramp’s fast-growing finance automation platform

Ramp reachedunicorn status and became America’s fastest-growing corporate card ~1 year after public launch. The key to this growth? Scalable architecture. Read on to learn more.

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How InsightFinder uses AWS solutions to build an AI-driven predictive observability platform

How InsightFinder uses AWS solutions to build an AI-driven predictive observability platform

InsightFinder helps customers prevent outages in the cloud. See how they use unsupervised machine learning to make cloud infrastructure more reliable.

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Autonomous driving startup TIER IV uses AWS to change the future of mobility

Autonomous driving startup TIER IV uses AWS to change the future of mobility

TIER IV is transforming the vehicle production process and the future of mobility, all with open-source software.

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How C2i Genomics builds on AWS to transform cancer care

How C2i Genomics builds on AWS to transform cancer care

C2i Genomics is revolutionizing cancer care. Read on to learn how they use AI/ML to detect cancer via blood test.

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Building application-specific blockchains with AWS on Avalanche

Building application-specific blockchains with AWS on Avalanche

Unlock the potential of application-specific blockchains on Avalanche with AWS. Learn how Ava Labs drives mainstream growth and blockchain innovation.

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 How SMore is building an inclusive dating app

Unlocking Authentic Connections: How S'More is building an inclusive dating app

Discover how S'more break the barriers of traditional dating apps with AWS's recognition technology, in order to embrace authentic connections.

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How LabVoice + AWS are expanding accessibility in research labs

How LabVoice + AWS are expanding accessibility in research labs

Breaking barriers in research labs with LabVoice and AWS. Explore their innovative inventory search solution for enhanced accessibility in scientific workflows.

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PulpoAR Uses Machine Learning to Build an Augmented Reality Shopping Experience for Beauty Products

PulpoAR Uses Machine Learning to Build an Augmented Reality Shopping Experience for Beauty Products

PulpoAR merges digital and physical worlds--find out how they use augmented reality in their platform to allow people to virtually try on makeup.

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Purple Ant on Using AWS to Transform the Insurance Industry

Purple Ant on Using AWS to Transform the Insurance Industry

Check out how Purple Ant enables customers to detect, prevent, and track damage to their homes.

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FutureFit AI Is Building a GPS for Your Career

FutureFit AI Is Building a GPS for Your Career

Learn why FutureFit built an AI platform on AWS to guide individuals through the process of planning their careers.

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