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Author: Michelle Kung
Michelle Kung currently works in startup content at AWS and was previously the head of content at Index Ventures. Prior to joining the corporate world, Michelle was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, the founding Business Editor at the Huffington Post, a correspondent for The Boston Globe, a columnist for Publisher’s Weekly and a writer at Entertainment Weekly.
AI-Powered IT Analytics with Numerify
Numerify is an AI-powered IT analytics company that provides businesses, such as Fortune 500 companies, with these solutions, using predictive analysis to gauge how likely it is that these changes will be successful.
Modern Giving With Pinkaloo’s Gideon Taub
Gideon Taub, founder and CEO of Pinkaloo, has studied the issue of engaging millenials, and he’s become something of an expert. He knows that the desire for social consciousness extends to employment choices.
Keeping It Simple: 8 Securities CEO Mikaal Abdulla on Value and Data in Fintech
8 Securities, a mobile-only investment service based in Hong Kong, is a company looking to change the paradigm of finance.
Kasada Defends Companies Against Online Break-ins
“With more and more businesses online, and more and more tools to attack digital storefronts and web apps, why would a criminal perform a physical break-in or theft?” says Ghin Khoo, Sales Manager at Kasada, an Australian cybersecurity company focused on the emerging Bot Risk Management space.
OakNorth Turns Risk into Opportunity with Tech
For OakNorth, tech and banking truly go hand-in-hand. Its data and technology platform, OakNorth Analytical Intelligence (ONAI), allows it to do balance sheet lending via OakNorth Bank in the UK, profitably originating over £2 billion without a single default or late payment since its launch in September 2015.
How Traveloka Uses AWS to Maintain Visibility Into its Systems
Felix Perdana, Software Engineering Manager at Traveloka, talks about working for a “unicorn” startup based out of Indonesia, how engineers are different from programmers, and key technical lessons he has learned. He also shares how the company uses AWS to maintain visibility into (and behind) its systems.
Couchbase’s Wayne Carter on Why Every Enterprise Should Be Looking to Leverage Database Technologies
Couchbase is NoSQL database and data management software maker best known for creating the world’s first “Engagement Database.” Known as the Couchbase Data Platform, the distributed, multi-cloud, and mobile NoSQL document database is based on a memory-first, async everywhere architecture. AWS Startups recently interviewed Wayne Carter, Couchbase’s Vice President of Mobile, about the company’s mission, methods, and most successful ideas.
How Clicktale Uses AWS to Power a Successful Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday generates big sales for online retailers but it also generates big insights. As customers browse, retailers gain all kinds of new information about customer behavior and how the experience on their websites attracts—or repels—potential buyers. This is where experience analytics startup Clicktale comes in.
How Illumio Is Taking Network Security Beyond the Firewall
In 2013, PJ Kirner and Andrew Rubin founded Illumio with the intention of creating a more nimble, innovative approach to security.
How AWS Helps Skylight Build Weather Reports for Aviation Companies
Who likes to talk about the weather? Pilots. In fact they need to do a lot more than talk about the weather. They need to know the data from the inside out.