January 4, 2013 at 16:13AWS: Startup Contest Semifinalists
Hello!
A couple of months ago I wrote the AWS Global Start-Up Challenge . This event gained momentum and collected applications from representatives from 84 countries from all the inhabited continents of our planet.
So, the semi-finalists were selected in 4 nominations by topics:
And now about each semi-finalist a bit of information separately.
Automated Insights, Inc.
North Carolina, USA
Automated Insights is a world leader in generating content from data. Our technology turns large amounts of data into something understandable to humans, using interesting patterns, trends, key points and describes everything in English, as if the writer were doing it.
Website >>
Mortar Data
New York, USA
Mortar combines two things - the open source framework, which allows you to create data processing applications based on Hadoop and Hadoop platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to run applications written on the Mortar framework based on AWS Elastic MapReduce.
Website >>
Positive Bioscience
India
Positive Bioscience is a bio-pharmaceutical company that analyzes the most advanced technologies. The main specialization of the company is research and treatment of cancerous tumors. The main goal is a revolution in medicine and the provision of new cancer treatments.
Website >>
QMedic
Massachusetts, USA
QMedic, founded by scientists from MIT, allows older people to monitor their health and not worry about it while at home. QMedic's proprietary technologies enable real-time monitoring of activity and sleep through devices and sending data to the clouds. Based on this data, triggers can be created, and the data itself is sent directly to medical institutions.
Website >>
Seven Bridges Genomics
Massachusetts, USA
Seven Bridges Genomics provides cloud services that enable biologists to perform AWS-based gene structure analyzes.
Website >>
DemystData
Hong Kong
DemystData helps financial institutions find the right solution for their customers, based on data obtained from various sources - online, social networks and internal developments.
Website >>
GoSquared
United Kingdom
GoSquared is a web analytics platform that enables organizations to quickly integrate into the online world. GoSquared technologies allow you to quickly track the interactions of your applications and sites with customers for subsequent improvements and optimization.
Website >>
Guidebook
California, USA
Guidebook connects users with geographic locations. Using mobile technology, the Guidebook allows companies to improve the quality of the service they provide to visitors.
Website >>
PlanGrid
California, USA
PlanGrid is a substitute for paper building plans based on a mobile application hosted on AWS. PlanGrid allows you to use versonization and the simultaneous use of plans by many workers. You can also create problem tickets and take photos of objects.
Website >>
Poikos
Netherlands
Poikos is a system using revolutionary patented technology to create 3D images of the human body using simple phones, tablets and computers. The main goal is to create applications in the field of medicine, e-commerce and other interested industries.
Website >>
TraceLink Business Cloud
Massachusetts, USA
TraceLink Business Cloud is designed to save lives and help deliver drugs worldwide. TraceLink Business Cloud is a global delivery network connecting customers and customers.
Website >>
Chute
California, USA
Chute provides an infrastructure for processing photos and videos for mobile applications using a huge number of API methods. The service provides authentication, resizing, commenting, combining and many other methods of processing video and images.
Website >>
Appy Couple
New York, USA
Appy Couple is a magical and very stylish way to create your own wedding apps and sites. Guests, invitations, menus, photos - everything can be found and easily created by yourself, hand out the application and be sure that everything will be fine!
Website >>
LogMyCalls
Utah, USA
LogMyCalls is a platform for analyzing and automating marketing technologies for the phone. Based on keywords, phrases, and call analysis, LogMyCalls collects data and can create triggers for subsequent actions. The program is used in contact centers.
Website >>
Hive
Australia
Hive is a new method for you, family and friends to provide security and protection for everything you care about. Hive is a webcam that can be installed on any Wi-Fi network. Camera signal can be seen on any device anywhere around the world.
Website >>
Magnasoft NorthStar
India
NorthStar provides technology for child and school childcare. It is possible to track school buses and other vehicles for schoolchildren. The platform also sends parents messages about the location of their children.
Website >>
Powhow
New York, USA
Powhow is the world's first marketplace and webcam lesson platform. Fitness lessons, guitars and pastry pies - all in one place.
Website >>
Wikidot Inc.
Poland
Wikidot is a platform that allows you to quickly create your own Wiki site. Own blogs, community sites, gaming sites and sites for business - this is what you can do on this engine.
Website >>
Bossa Studios Ltd
United Kingdom
Bossa is a revolutionary technology for social games, leaving asynchronous algorithms far behind. Bossa games are realtime cross-platform applications.
Website >>
Grand Cru OY
Finland
Grand Cru, a development team from Helsinki, is developing a MineCraft-style game. Mainly created for tablets, the game makes it possible to dynamically change the 3D world using a simple interface.
Website >>
Playblazer
India
Playblazer provides developers with access to the API and its functionality, which consists of pre-installed models, components and processes, allowing you to quickly create cross-platform mobile applications.
Website >>
PlayCanvas
United Kingdom
PlayCanvas set a goal to become the # 1 platform for online creating and playing video for games. This is an AWS-based video creation and publishing system.
Website >>
Smilu, Inc.
California, USA
Smilu creates Arena fighting game, available for iOS, Windows and Android devices. The game is based on a platform that allows the application to run on any device and creates a real multiplayer between them.
Website >>
Claritics Gaming Analytics
California, USA
Claritics Gaming Analytics provides analytic applications for social networks and mobile games. The main function is application monetization. Also, analyzes allow you to track user behavior for the subsequent improvement of their design and increase profits.
Website >>
Let's introduce ourselves to the jury of the competition. Who would you vote for in each category?
A couple of months ago I wrote the AWS Global Start-Up Challenge . This event gained momentum and collected applications from representatives from 84 countries from all the inhabited continents of our planet.
So, the semi-finalists were selected in 4 nominations by topics:
- Big Data & High Performance Computing
- Business applications
- Consumer applications
- Gaming
And now about each semi-finalist a bit of information separately.
Big Data & High Performance Computing
Automated Insights, Inc.
North Carolina, USA
Automated Insights is a world leader in generating content from data. Our technology turns large amounts of data into something understandable to humans, using interesting patterns, trends, key points and describes everything in English, as if the writer were doing it.
Website >>
Mortar Data
New York, USA
Mortar combines two things - the open source framework, which allows you to create data processing applications based on Hadoop and Hadoop platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to run applications written on the Mortar framework based on AWS Elastic MapReduce.
Website >>
Positive Bioscience
India
Positive Bioscience is a bio-pharmaceutical company that analyzes the most advanced technologies. The main specialization of the company is research and treatment of cancerous tumors. The main goal is a revolution in medicine and the provision of new cancer treatments.
Website >>
QMedic
Massachusetts, USA
QMedic, founded by scientists from MIT, allows older people to monitor their health and not worry about it while at home. QMedic's proprietary technologies enable real-time monitoring of activity and sleep through devices and sending data to the clouds. Based on this data, triggers can be created, and the data itself is sent directly to medical institutions.
Website >>
Seven Bridges Genomics
Massachusetts, USA
Seven Bridges Genomics provides cloud services that enable biologists to perform AWS-based gene structure analyzes.
Website >>
DemystData
Hong Kong
DemystData helps financial institutions find the right solution for their customers, based on data obtained from various sources - online, social networks and internal developments.
Website >>
Business applications
GoSquared
United Kingdom
GoSquared is a web analytics platform that enables organizations to quickly integrate into the online world. GoSquared technologies allow you to quickly track the interactions of your applications and sites with customers for subsequent improvements and optimization.
Website >>
Guidebook
California, USA
Guidebook connects users with geographic locations. Using mobile technology, the Guidebook allows companies to improve the quality of the service they provide to visitors.
Website >>
PlanGrid
California, USA
PlanGrid is a substitute for paper building plans based on a mobile application hosted on AWS. PlanGrid allows you to use versonization and the simultaneous use of plans by many workers. You can also create problem tickets and take photos of objects.
Website >>
Poikos
Netherlands
Poikos is a system using revolutionary patented technology to create 3D images of the human body using simple phones, tablets and computers. The main goal is to create applications in the field of medicine, e-commerce and other interested industries.
Website >>
TraceLink Business Cloud
Massachusetts, USA
TraceLink Business Cloud is designed to save lives and help deliver drugs worldwide. TraceLink Business Cloud is a global delivery network connecting customers and customers.
Website >>
Chute
California, USA
Chute provides an infrastructure for processing photos and videos for mobile applications using a huge number of API methods. The service provides authentication, resizing, commenting, combining and many other methods of processing video and images.
Website >>
Consumer applications
Appy Couple
New York, USA
Appy Couple is a magical and very stylish way to create your own wedding apps and sites. Guests, invitations, menus, photos - everything can be found and easily created by yourself, hand out the application and be sure that everything will be fine!
Website >>
LogMyCalls
Utah, USA
LogMyCalls is a platform for analyzing and automating marketing technologies for the phone. Based on keywords, phrases, and call analysis, LogMyCalls collects data and can create triggers for subsequent actions. The program is used in contact centers.
Website >>
Hive
Australia
Hive is a new method for you, family and friends to provide security and protection for everything you care about. Hive is a webcam that can be installed on any Wi-Fi network. Camera signal can be seen on any device anywhere around the world.
Website >>
Magnasoft NorthStar
India
NorthStar provides technology for child and school childcare. It is possible to track school buses and other vehicles for schoolchildren. The platform also sends parents messages about the location of their children.
Website >>
Powhow
New York, USA
Powhow is the world's first marketplace and webcam lesson platform. Fitness lessons, guitars and pastry pies - all in one place.
Website >>
Wikidot Inc.
Poland
Wikidot is a platform that allows you to quickly create your own Wiki site. Own blogs, community sites, gaming sites and sites for business - this is what you can do on this engine.
Website >>
Gaming
Bossa Studios Ltd
United Kingdom
Bossa is a revolutionary technology for social games, leaving asynchronous algorithms far behind. Bossa games are realtime cross-platform applications.
Website >>
Grand Cru OY
Finland
Grand Cru, a development team from Helsinki, is developing a MineCraft-style game. Mainly created for tablets, the game makes it possible to dynamically change the 3D world using a simple interface.
Website >>
Playblazer
India
Playblazer provides developers with access to the API and its functionality, which consists of pre-installed models, components and processes, allowing you to quickly create cross-platform mobile applications.
Website >>
PlayCanvas
United Kingdom
PlayCanvas set a goal to become the # 1 platform for online creating and playing video for games. This is an AWS-based video creation and publishing system.
Website >>
Smilu, Inc.
California, USA
Smilu creates Arena fighting game, available for iOS, Windows and Android devices. The game is based on a platform that allows the application to run on any device and creates a real multiplayer between them.
Website >>
Claritics Gaming Analytics
California, USA
Claritics Gaming Analytics provides analytic applications for social networks and mobile games. The main function is application monetization. Also, analyzes allow you to track user behavior for the subsequent improvement of their design and increase profits.
Website >>
Let's introduce ourselves to the jury of the competition. Who would you vote for in each category?
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Big Data & High Performance Computing
- 30.7% Automated Insights (USA) 8
- 11.5% Demyst Data (Hong Kong) 3
- 3.8% Mortar Data (USA) 1
- 30.7% Positive Bioscience (India) 8
- 15.3% QMedic (USA) 4
- 7.6% Seven Bridges Genomics (USA) 2
Business applications
- 0% Chute (USA) 0
- 16.6% GoSquared (UK) 3
- 5.5% Guidebook (USA) 1
- 38.8% PlanGrid (USA) 7
- 27.7% Poikos (Netherlands) 5
- 11.1% Tracelink Business Cloud (USA) 2
Consumer applications
- 5% Appy Couple (USA) 1
- 15% LogMyCalls (USA) 3
- 25% Hive (Australia) 5
- 5% Magnasoft Northstar (India) 1
- 45% Powhow (USA) 9
- 5% Wikidot (Poland) 1
Gaming
- 4.7% Bossa Studios (UK) 1
- 9.5% Claritics Gaming Analytics (US) 2
- 28.5% Grand Cru (Finland) 6
- 4.7% Playblazer (India) 1
- 38% PlayCanvas (UK) 8
- 14.2% Smilu (US) 3