Tag: startups

Feed: Events. Author: . Today is our second-annual Google Cloud Startup Summit, and we couldn’t be more excited to connect with leaders, founders, and innovators from across the startup ecosystem to learn how they’re innovating and solving some of the world’s biggest challenges.Startups come to Google Cloud to build their companies and products on our trusted, developer-friendly infrastructure, and to take advantage of our leading capabilities in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and analytics. In January, we expanded our support for early-stage startups to make it even easier for them to get up-and-running on Google Cloud by covering their ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Grant Hume. A core function of every country is to protect and defend its people and borders. For countries like the UK, being at the forefront of innovation is vital to maintaining an agile, swift, and effective defence strategy. To support this need, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching its first Defence Accelerator for UK based startups, and startups from Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) doing business in the UK. The AWS Defence Accelerator’s goal is to support startups that use cloud technologies to provide defensive cyber, data discovery and optimisation, space exploitation, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Manpreet Mattu. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to officially announce the innovative startups chosen to participate in the AWS Sustainable Cities Accelerator. These selected startups are developing groundbreaking solutions to help cities address sustainability challenges, like tackling traffic analysis, smart internet of things (IoT) lampposts, and much more. The 12 companies were selected from hundreds of applications, representing 19 countries, by a panel of experts from AWS, Freshwater Advisors, and Public Spend Forum. The types of startups that applied to the program ranged from pre-revenue to $50 million in annual revenue and from ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Clint Crosier. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to officially announce the selection of the 10 participants for the 2022 AWS Space Accelerator. This year’s finalists brought forward pioneering ideas that will draw valuable insights from the depths of the ocean floor to the surface of the moon, and nearly everything in between. This global group of emerging startups from across the United States, Asia, and Europe was selected from among hundreds of applications by a panel from AWS and AlchemistX. The selected startups each have an inspiring and innovative vision for how to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Clint Crosier. Seventy-five years ago, a camera aboard a V-22 rocket returned the first-ever photograph captured from space. The black and white image was taken with a 35 millimeter motion picture camera at an altitude of 65 miles, just above the Karman Line, the official boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. Fast forward to today, an exciting era where advances in engineering are helping to transport human technology far beyond Earth’s atmosphere. As the rapid pace of innovation continues not only for space exploration but across the global aerospace industry, organizations continue to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Manpreet Mattu. Cities occupy just 3% of the land on Earth but account for 75% of carbon emissions. With the urban population expected to grow 1.5 times to 6 billion people by 2045, developing sustainable cities is a crucial component of the fight against climate change. Innovation is key to launching sustainability initiatives in the face of challenges – from driving decarbonization to modernizing mobility. The culture of innovation surrounding startups has put them at the forefront of developing the next generation solutions that can transform cities and address the challenges of the climate ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Ben Schein. The total economic impact of Domo on organizations is well documented. Over the last several years, Forrester Consulting has conducted numerous studies on how Domo affects businesses’ bottom lines. The latest of those studies was published earlier this year and focused on four small- to medium-sized operations that, collectively, experienced an ROI in Domo of 345% over a three-year period. Odele Beauty was not one of the operations Forrester examined. But it is a small business. And it does use Domo. Which is why Odele Co-Founder Britta Chatterjee made for such a compelling guest alongside Forrester Principal Consultant Dean ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Build on AWS, a new offering from AWS Activate designed to help startups build their infrastructure on AWS in minutes. Build on AWS is a collection of infrastructure templates and reference architectures covering a wide variety of solutions curated specifically for startups. These solutions are built by experts at AWS and based on AWS best practices. This enables startups to focus on building their core product knowing they’re using AWS best practices for their underlying cloud infrastructure. With the launch of Build on AWS, we’ve simplified the first ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sandy Carter. The healthcare industry is currently experiencing seismic shifts with much of the focus being placed on COVID-19 clinical, operational, and financial efforts. However, even in the setting of the pandemic, the healthcare industry is still faced with addressing a growing aging population, a widening workforce gap, and a proliferating volume of healthcare data. Healthcare organizations, from hospital systems to public health agencies, have been turning to technology solutions to help them quickly adapt and respond to these challenges and rapidly innovate with data-driven and compliant solutions. To support both high-potential healthcare startups ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: John Boynton. Our voice is the latest evolution in how we interact with technology. Alexa is Amazon’s voice-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) service and the brain behind millions of devices around the world, including the Amazon Echo. Alexa provides app-like features—called skills—that enable customers to create a personalized experience using their voice. Families and students now learn with Alexa in their homes, and education technology (EdTech) companies are using Alexa to help bridge the gap in engaging and accessible at-home learning. Two EdTech startups, NuMoola and Ecree, announced Alexa skills to help facilitate student learning ... Read More