Category: Startup

Convoy Inc., a digital freight network, uses machine learning on AWS to help the shipping industry increase its sustainability and reduce CO2 emissions. Aaron Terrazas, director of economic research at Convoy, and Jennifer Wong, head of sustainability marketing at Convoy, recently shared more on the AWS Fix This podcast about shipping, sustainability, and how the cloud powers Convoy’s work. 

Restlessness, resourcefulness, and an ambition to take on the world. This is how angel investor Richard Fearn picks founders from the crowd.

Chris Adelsbach, one of the busiest angels in the U.K., walks us through the noise and the opportunity in the fintech market.

San Francisco-based startup Nylas is unlocking one of the longest-lived and deepest stores of data – email.

Reverie Labs uses computation to drive the development of therapeutics for cancer. To do this, they’ve built substantial cloud-based infrastructure to train machine learning models, deploy models to production, and build and ship internal-facing applications for our chemistry teams.

Accelerators are a great way to jumpstart a startup, offering technical and business help, a built-in network, and the unrelenting pressure of time to get your MVP ready for demo day. Eamonn Carey from TechStars London walks us through the reasons you might want to apply to an accelerator, and why for some, raising an angel round is the better course.

Not long ago, eeMobility was fully dependent on an external team who decided how and where to run its software. Initially this allowed them to focus on developing our very young software solution and deliver feature after feature. However, as both the platform and the desire to become independent evolved, they knew an infrastructure solution tailored to fit our needs was a must. Here’s what they did next.

AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. This post will show you how to set a budget and adjust it when paying with AWS credits.

During re:Invent 2019, the AWS Health Care/Life Sciences team hosted an afternoon of sessions. Talks were organized into two main topics: Computational Biology and Chemistry for Drug Discovery and Development, and Machine Learning in Biotech R&D.

At OpenVPN, which provides secure and scalable communication services, we wanted to launch a virtual private network (VPN) using AWS to provide our remote workforce with security and privacy wherever they are. Here’s how we did it and how it would fit for a use case for a small business.