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The public sector poses incredibly complex challenges to startups today. Given that they offer critical services to millions of people, coming up with innovative and relevant solutions is the need of the hour. If you’re an early-stage startup with
The AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp is the right stage to kickstart your plans. As India is the first country to kick off this programme, apply now and be at the forefront of change.
The AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp is a global undertaking, where early-stage startups build innovative, agile and disruptive solutions for public sector customers worldwide. This unique programme enables early-stage startups to build and scale solutions that are powered by Amazon Web Services’s cloud platform
The challenges that public sector startups face is in the intertwined nature of the problem. Social, political, environmental and technological factors must be taken into account when building an agile solution. The AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp provides the resources required to create a multi-layered solution, including access to training, support, as well as AWS Promotional Credit. Startups can choose between two membership tiers - the innovator tier or member tier.
(This programme is also open to Economic Development Organisations)
This stage is for public sector startups in the nascent stage. AWS will provide members of this tier with seed investment of AWS Promotional Credit, as well as business and technical resources. Members will also be introduced to the global public sector startup community to help launch their company.
This stage is for startups with existing innovative offerings. The AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp programme will help these startups build and scale these solutions by offering a wide array of technical and business support and widespread exposure to investors, public sector customers, media and fellow entrepreneurs.
Through various Innovation Challenges and Pitch days, we have partnered with various state and central government bodies (Govt of Maharashtra, Govt of West Bengal, NITI Aayog, T-AIM) to help identify startups across various domains, including agritech, healthtech, smart infrastructure, etc.
These startups received AWS credits, technical expertise and support to build Proof of Concepts and ready solutions for the relevant governing bodies to showcase the impact on communities and citizens in that region.
Additionally, these startups received larger outreach through AWS hosted webinars, roundtables and events over the last 2.5 years. We have also worked with these startups to build case studies, video testimonials, e-books and podcasts and amplified this content to the Indian and global audience through digital and social campaigns on AWS pages
