Investor Type | Firm |
Industries | Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • AR/VR • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • SaaS • DeepTech • Consumer |
Stages | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A |
Investment Sweet Spot | €20,000 |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform that offers over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. They cater to various industries, providing solutions in business services, web security and privacy, cloud services and infrastructure, developer tools, SaaS, and Deeptech. As part of their growth and innovation strategy, AWS extends support to startups through investment activities, focusing on stages from Pre-Seed, Seed to Series A rounds. Their investment thesis prioritizes startups that demonstrate the potential to leverage the advanced capabilities of cloud computing to create novel and scalable solutions. AWS is interested in businesses that emphasize innovation in their offerings and operations, and which align with the expansive ecosystem of AWS services. By investing in these areas, AWS reinforces its ecosystem and promotes a new generation of businesses that can benefit from or contribute to the AWS platform's extensive functionalities. The startups benefiting from AWS investments typically integrate into the AWS infrastructure, ultilizing the platform's vast capabilities to deliver their services efficiently and at scale. AWS's investment activities demonstrate the company's commitment to fostering innovation in the tech sector, especially in emerging technologies that align with their vision of continuous advancement and disruption in cloud computing and related services.