A couple of months ago, I wrote the AWS Global Start-Up Challenge . This event gained momentum and gathered applications from representatives from 84 countries from all the inhabited continents of our planet.
So, the semi-finalists were selected in 4 nominations by topic:
Big Data & High Performance Computing
Business Applications
Consumer applications
Gaming
And now about each semi-finalist a little bit of information separately. ')
Big Data & High Performance Computing
Automated Insights, Inc. North Carolina, USA
Automated Insights is the world leader in generating content from data. Our technology turns large amounts of data into something that is understandable to humans, using interesting patterns, trends, key points and describes everything in English, as if the writer was doing it.
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.
Positive Bioscience is a bio-pharmaceutical company that performs the most advanced technology analysis. The main specialization of the company is research and treatment of cancer tumors. The main goal is a revolution in medicine and the provision of new cancer treatments.
QMedic, founded by scientists from MIT, allows older people to look after their health and not worry about it while at home. Patented QMedic technologies enable real-time monitoring of activity and sleep through devices and directing data to the clouds. On the basis of these data, triggers can be created, and the data itself is sent directly to medical institutions.
DemystData helps financial institutions find the right solution for their customers based on data from various sources - online, social networks and internal developments.
GoSquared is a web-based analytics platform that allows organizations to more quickly integrate into the online world. GoSquared technologies allow you to quickly track the interactions of your applications and sites with customers for future improvements and optimization.
Guidebook unites users and geographic locations. Using mobile technologies, Guidebook allows companies to improve the quality of service they provide visitors.
PlanGrid is a substitute for paper building plans based on a mobile application that is hosted on the basis of AWS. PlanGrid allows you to use the revision and simultaneous use of plans by many workers. You can also create problem tickets and take photos of objects.
Poikos is a system that uses the revolutionary patented technology to create a 3D image 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.
TraceLink Business Cloud is created to save lives and help deliver drugs worldwide. TraceLink Business Cloud is a global delivery network connecting customers and clients.
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 video and image processing methods.
Appy Couple is a really magical and very stylish method of creating your own wedding apps and sites. Guests, invitations, menus, photos - everything can be found and easily create yourself, distribute the application and be sure that everything will be fine!
LogMyCalls is a platform for analyzing and automating marketing technologies for a telephone. Based on keywords, phrases and call analysis, LogMyCalls collects data and can create triggers for subsequent actions. The program is used in contact centers.
Hive is a new method for you, family and friends to provide security and protection for everything that is dear to you. Hive is a webcam that can be installed on any Wi-Fi network. The camera signal can be seen on any device anywhere around the world.
NorthStar provides technology to care for children and students. There is the possibility of tracking school buses and other means of transportation of schoolchildren. The platform also sends parents messages about the location of their children.
Wikidot is a platform that allows you to quickly create your Wiki site. Own blogs, community sites, gaming sites and business sites are what you can do with this engine.
Bossa is a revolutionary technology for social games that leaves asynchronous algorithms far behind. Bossa games are realtime cross-platform applications.
Grand Cru, the development team from Helsinki, is developing a game in the style of MineCraft. Mainly created for tablets, the game allows you to dynamically change the 3D world using a simple interface.
Playblazer provides developers with access to the API and its functionality, consisting of pre-installed models, components and processes, allowing you to quickly create cross-platform mobile applications.
PlayCanvas set a goal to become the # 1 platform for online creation and playback of video for games. This is a video creation and publishing system based on AWS.
Smilu creates an Arena combat 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.
Claritics Gaming Analytics provides analytical applications for social networks and mobile games. The main function is the monetization of applications. Also, analyzes allow you to track user behavior to further improve their design and increase profits.