AWS Startups Blog
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.
How Bark and Co. uses Amazon Comprehend for Both the User and Pet Experience
To improve their customer experience, Bark and Co VP of Engineering Becky Segal says the company started using AWS Comprehend to take custom, text-written responses from customers and get a better read on sentiment analysis.
Safety First: HopSkipDrive and the Rideshare Economy
Joanna McFarland is the co-founder and CEO of HopSkipDrive, a ridesharing app specifically geared toward alleviating the daily stress of planning hectic family transportation schedules.
8i Brings Holograms to a Living Room Near You
Beam me up, Scotty. You might not know it now, but these could be the four most influential words in the English language today. At least that’s what Steve Raymond, CEO of 8i, is shooting for.
From Cinema to Civic Engagement: Pilotly’s James Norman on User-Focused Data Collection
James Norman, founder and CEO of Pilotly, may have come up through the entertainment industry, but he’s got a broader target in mind.
Back to the Future: Van Robotics Embraces a Retro Feel for Its Robot Tutors
When designing a robot buddy for students, you’d think the more realistic looking the robot, the more appealing, right? Not so, says academic-turned-entrepreneur Laura Boccanfuso.
How Zocdoc is Using AI to Schedule Your Next Doctor’s Appointment
When Zocdoc’s patients told the startup that insurance was confusing, the company decided to build an insurance-checker product.
Brent Bushnell of Two Bit Circus Believes Web 3.0 Is Almost Here
The anti-social downsides of social technologies are starting to be a big concern for tech companies these days. It’s a surprise, since Web 2.0 was all about building out the social capacity of existing tech offerings. But Brent Bushnell of Two Bit Circus isn’t worried. In fact, he believes he’s well positioned for the next big thing: bringing people back together again in public.
Poker Champ and Primed Mind Founder Fedor Holz Is Bringing Elite Mindset Coaching to the Masses
Ambition has never been an issue for Fedor Holz. When he was barely out of his teens, he beat out 183 other pros to scoop up nearly five million dollars at the 2016 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Now he’s the founder of Primed Mind, a tech offering that takes the experience of having a personal mindset coach and translates that into a series of two-part audio sessions.
What Is Deep Learning? A Primer with Bonsai’s Mark Hammond
Today, there are a lot of people talking about AI without having a real grasp on how deep learning works or even what it means. So what is it, really?
How Segment uses Okta to Secure Access to Dozens of Accounts
Segment receives billions of events from our customers daily and has grown into dozens of AWS accounts. Expanding into many more accounts was necessary in order to best align with our GDPR and security initiatives. In order to continue scaling gracefully, we are centrally managing employee access to AWS with terraform and our identity provider. To organize the expansion into numerous accounts, we needed a mechanism to control our accounts, which accounts employees have access to, and each employee’s permissions in each account.