Meet the 40 Startups Powering AWS’ 2025 Generative AI Push
AWS unveils a global lineup of innovators for its 2025 AI Accelerator, backing them with $1 million in credits, mentorship, and a fast-tracked path to scale
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has selected the startups that will participate in its generative AI accelerator (GAIA). The third cohort comprises a diverse mix of companies from software, life sciences, healthcare, media and entertainment, finance, professional services, manufacturing, cybersecurity, legal, robotics, and education sectors—all with one thing in common: they are utilizing AI.
“This year’s cohort reinforces our mission to help that innovation move faster and deliver real-world impact for customers in every industry,” Sherry Karamdashti, AWS’ general manager and head of startups in North America, says in a release. “We’re removing the barriers and accelerating opportunities so these leaders can grow their world-changing solutions.”
Unlike previous years, AWS has limited the number of participating startups. In 2024, there were 80 enrolled, but now there are 40. The program is also on a truncated timeline, with two fewer weeks. However, AWS’ commitment remains the same, investing up to $1 million in AWS credits to each company, providing technical support, mentorship, and go-to market support, and access to its gen AI technology.
Here are the startups enrolled in GAIA this year (in alphabetical order)
AI Cube (Brazil): No-code AI automation to streamline tasks and boost workflow efficiency
Basetwo AI (Canada): AI copilot helping engineers optimize pharmaceutical manufacturing in real time
Chai Discovery (U.S.): Uses AI to design better molecules and accelerate drug discovery
Dharma-AI (Brazil): Builds small language models for secure, efficient enterprise automation
Eloquent AI (U.S.): AI operator automating complex financial operations without APIs or coding
Exaforce (U.S.): AI-powered SOC platform enhancing cybersecurity detection and response
Forlex (Brazil): Legal AI agents and multilingual models transforming law firm operations
Hedra Inc. (U.S.): Generative media platform for end-to-end marketing and content creation
Hemispheric (Israel): AI foundation for brain-computer interfaces advancing neuroscience
Hyperbots (India): Agentic AI platform boosting finance team productivity by over 90 percent
Inception (U.S.): Developing diffusion LLMs to make AI faster and cheaper
Inephany (U.K.): Optimizes machine learning training speed and cost through AI tools
Invisible Universe (U.S.): Builds AI-native studios for creators making short-form videos
Jentic (Ireland): Deploys AI agents in secure sandboxes for enterprise automation
Lettria (France): No-code AI GraphRAG platform turning unstructured data into insights
Lisan (UAE): Multilingual AI writing and document generation tools for enterprises
LlamaIndex (U.S.): Framework for building agentic workflows to extract and synthesize knowledge
Manifold Bio (U.S.): Uses AI and protein engineering to develop targeted therapeutics.
Mary Technology (Australia): AI-powered fact management system for law firms
Mimic Robotics (Switzerland): AI robotics automating complex manual tasks in retail and manufacturing
NeuBird (U.S.): Autonomous AI system resolving IT incidents rapidly
Nexxa.ai (U.S.): Specialized AI for heavy industries to accelerate engineering work
Orakl Oncology (France): AI-powered predictive modeling to improve drug development outcomes
Pathway (U.S.): Builds real-time learning AI systems to mimic human cognition
Pluralis Research (Australia): Enables collaborative foundation model training among organizations
Qomplement (Mexico): Automates back-office tasks across legacy systems using computer-use agents
Ravenna (U.S.): AI help desk automating IT, HR, and operations support in Slack
RLWRLD (Korea): Robotics foundation models for industrial automation
Reevo (U.S.): AI platform unifying B2B sales and marketing operations
Runloop (U.S.): Developer infrastructure for building AI agent-based software
SDio (Japan): Transforms long videos into searchable, analyzable intelligence
Smallest AI (India): Foundational voice AI models for real-time enterprise communication
Stimuler (India): Voice AI app teaching English fluency to non-native speakers
Synthera (Colombia): AI simulations for modeling financial markets and macro trends
SyntheticGestalt (Japan): Molecular-focused foundation AI model accelerating scientific discovery
Trillion Labs (Korea): Builds large language models for Korean and Asian languages
Typhoon (Thailand): Open-source multimodal LLMs for Thai developers and businesses
VidLab7 (Germany): AI demo platform creating interactive sales avatars
Wondera (U.S.): AI music creation and publishing tools empowering creators
AWS notes that all of these startups are making notable contributions in the field of gen AI, whether it involves fine-tuning open-source models, pre-training foundation models, or providing critical services to the tech stack.
All will be gathering in Seattle, Washington, on October 14 to kick off the 2025 program. From there, teams will go through what is billed as a “comprehensive” agenda aimed at turning their groundbreaking ideas into impactful solutions. It all culminates in December at AWS re:Invent. That said, it’s unclear at this time if any of these startups will participate in the second-annual “Unicorn Tank” competition.