AWS Selects 7 Generative AI Startups from India for Global AWS Generative AI Accelerator Program

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has selected seven generative AI startups from India for the AWS Global Generative AI Accelerator program.

Selected Indian startups — Convrse, House of Models, Neural Garage, Orbo.ai, Phot.ai, Unscript AI, and Zocket — are among 80 companies selected by AWS globally for their innovative use of AI and global growth ambitions.

The Indian group also represents the largest number of startups selected from an Asia-Pacific country for the AWS Global Generative AI Accelerator program.

“At AWS, our $230 million commitment and global expansion of the Generative AI Accelerator reflect our continued focus on helping startups develop, build, and scale their unique ideas using generative AI,” said Amitabh Nagpal, Director, Startup Business Development, AWS India.

Selected startups will also be invited to AWS’s most important annual event, re:Invent, in Las Vegas, where they will showcase their solutions internationally.

In June, AWS announced $230 million to accelerate application development worldwide. The AWS Generative AI Accelerator program provides startups, especially early-stage startups, with AWS credits, mentoring, and education to help them further leverage AI and ML technologies.

The AWS Generative AI Accelerator program offers startups—especially early-stage startups—AWS Credits, mentoring, and education to advance their AI and machine learning adoption. Selected startups receive access to AWS compute, storage, and database technologies, as well as AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia2, which are high-performance, low-cost AI chips.

Credits can also be used across Amazon SageMaker, a service that helps you build and train entry-level models, and Amazon Bedrock, which provides tools to safely and easily build generative AI applications.

The 10-week program pairs participants with business and technical mentors based on their industry, and selected startups will receive up to $1 million in AWS credits to help them build, train, test, and launch their generative AI solutions. Participants will also have access to technology and technical sessions from presenting partner NVIDIA, a pioneer in accelerated computing.

According to PitchBook Data, Inc., 1,813 AI and machine learning companies have raised funding in India, with over $82 billion invested so far in 2024. However, only 35 percent of the world’s generative AI companies have offices outside the country where they are headquartered, showing that more can be done to help startups realize their growth ambitions.