Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a comprehensive suite of information technology infrastructure services to businesses through cloud computing. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Seattle, AWS provides a range of products including compute, networking, storage, content delivery, databases, and analytics. Its services cater to various sectors, such as government, education, and non-profits, across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. AWS also supports developers with tools, documentation, SDKs, and training resources. By enabling organizations to convert fixed capital expenses into variable costs, AWS facilitates a flexible business model that enhances operational efficiency. The company operates data centers in key global locations, including the United States, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. AWS functions as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.

Adrian Cockcroft

Vice President Cloud Architecture Strategy

Past deals in Grant

ACT

Grant in 2022
ACT is an independent, non-profit organization that provides more than a hundred assessment, research, information, and program management services in the broad areas of education and workforce development.

Arkangel AI

Grant in 2021
Arkangel AI is a company focused on improving global health outcomes by utilizing an artificial intelligence platform designed to detect preventable diseases quickly and accurately. By achieving a detection accuracy of 90%, the platform generates results in seconds, making it a scalable and cost-effective solution for identifying diseases, especially in remote areas with limited healthcare infrastructure. Founded in 2019, Arkangel AI aims to reduce the death rate from viral diseases by combining scientific advancements with community knowledge, ensuring that equal health conditions are accessible to everyone worldwide. The company operates offices in Canada and Colombia.

NatureDots

Grant in 2021
We are a Hard-Tech start-up, creating resource-intelligent nature-based systems and solutions integrated with DeepTech for establishing a climate-Resilient New Nature Economy. Our dream is to map 2.5 million ha of freshwater bodies in India for creating a Digital Twin of freshwater ecosystems. With our novel value-innovation, we use the power of Nature and DeepTech for 100% de-risking freshwater fisheries towards establishing sustainable fisheries in India with which we are tackling the pain-points of 15 million fish farmers.

capsula.ai

Grant in 2021
capsula.ai empowers companies to inject Artificial Intelligence into their core processes. For businesses, practical AI applications can manifest in all sorts of ways depending on the organizational needs, goals, and available data. Every industry will need to leverage Artificial Intelligence refocusing its people on tasks that add the most value to their business. Capsula.ai maximizes the value of its partners in 2 ways: AI-powered SaaS solutions and practical AI transformation programs.

CINCEL

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
We accelerate deals between businesses, closing agreements in a faster and more secure way. Keep control of the whole contract lifecycle. By using cryptographic signatures that are biometrically-linked to the signer.

Airbuy

Grant in 2018
Airbuy is an African payment solution that allows you to pay online for micro-purchases using your airtime.

Werpx

Grant in 2017
Werpx creates a communication channel between Producers, Distributors, Retailers & Consumers to solve the Inventory Distortion Problem, Artificial Intelligence will be used to predict demands and ensure the product that Consumer want is always on the shelf.