Down To Business: Amazon Announces Its AWS Start-Up Challenge Winners
This year’s runner-up was Bizo, yet another business-oriented company, this one promising to deliver targeted audiences to customers. As the runner-up, Bizo gets $25,000 in AWS credits.
And finally, this year’s supplemental winner is FlightCaster, a company that says it can accurately predict flight delays. We’ve actually written about this Y Combinator startup a few times. With their AWS win they get $10,000 in AWS credits. Not bad, but probably not as big of a deal had they not just landed $1.3 million in new funding.
For next year’s AWS Challenge, Amazon is promising to open it up to a broader range of countries. They say they’ll announce details in early 2010.