AWS for Software Companies Podcast Ep116: Building the AI Economy - Inside NVIDIA's 25,000-Strong Startup Ecosystem
Jul 9, 2025
12:52
NVIDIA’s Global Head of Partnerships & Cloud for Startups, Jen Hoskins, details their collaboration with AWS to support over 25,000 startups through their Inception program.
Topics Include:
- AI transformation happening across all industries and verticals
- NVIDIA evolved from GPU company to full-stack AI solutions
- Accelerated computing requires complete stack re-engineering from chip up
- Traditional CPU scaling has reached its fundamental performance limits
- NVIDIA-AWS partnership spans over 13 years of co-development
- DGX Cloud integrates seamlessly with AWS SageMaker and Bedrock
- Over 26 NVIDIA solutions available in AWS Marketplace
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise accelerates data science and deployment pipelines
- NIM microservices streamline AI model development like Docker containers
- Codeway gaming startup saved 48% on compute costs using NVIDIA
- Eternal improved marketing ROI by 30X with generative AI
- Quoto achieved 10X content length and 3X throughput improvement
- NOATech biotech scaled cancer research with small team efficiently
- NVIDIA Inception program supports over 25,000 startups globally
- Program covers 100+ countries across all verticals and stages
- Startups get AWS credits up to $100,000 through Activate
- Developer program offers free access to hundreds of SDKs
- Three program pillars: Innovate, Build, and Grow stages
- VC Alliance connects startups with over 1,000 investors
- Venture Capital Connect directly links startups to funding opportunities
Participants:
- Jen Hoskins – Startups, Global Head of Cloud, Partnerships & Go to Market, NVIDIA
Further Links:
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