NEW DELHI:Amazon Net Companies (AWS) on Wednesday launched the primary area tech accelerator programme in India with assist from T-Hub and Minfy.
AWS House Accelerator: India, a technical, enterprise, and mentorship alternative designed to foster startups targeted on area know-how, and speed up their growth.
That is AWS’ first accelerator programme targeted on startups within the area sector, and follows the MoU it signed with ISRO and IN-SPACe in September final yr, which envisions to nurture startups in area tech and assist innovation within the sector.
“Applied sciences resembling generative AI open transformative alternatives for space-tech, and we’re dedicated to assist startups innovate and develop sustainable options for the area sector,” Clint Crosier, Director, Aerospace and Satellite tv for pc, AWS, mentioned in an announcement.
Functions for the AWS House Accelerator: India programme at the moment are open for submission.
In response to the corporate, the 14-week accelerator programme will present India-based startups with devoted enterprise assets, experience, and steerage round know-how and enterprise capabilities, and assist them leverage AWS to construct, develop, and scale their missions.
Startups qualifying for the programme can obtain an array of advantages, together with as much as $100,000 in AWS credit, in addition to steerage from consultants at ISRO, IN-SPACe, and AWS, and enterprise and know-how assist from T-Hub and Minfy.
Startups will study area area applied sciences and purposes, and learn how to leverage area information and construct scalable options utilizing cloud computing, information analytics, and machine studying, together with the potential to use generative Synthetic Intelligence (AI).
“India has world-class expertise within the area sector, and we look ahead to collaborating with ISRO, IN-SPACe, T-Hub and Minfy by means of this initiative to nurture space-tech innovation within the nation,” mentioned Shalini Kapoor, Director and Chief Technologist, Public Sector, AWS India Personal Restricted.
ISRO, as a part of its focus to create consciousness on space-tech and develop India’s area sector, will discover the provisions of the MoU with AWS, and lengthen the mandatory assist, according to the prevailing pointers of the division, to foster startup innovation within the nation.
