Category: Startup

As our online lives expand and businesses find new and better ways to provide everyday services via the internet, it can feel like increasing amounts of our sensitive data are in the hands of companies without stellar track records of keeping that data safe. James Neville, CEO and founder of Citizen, a one-touch login and registration app, hopes to change that metric. “We were working in payments, and it struck us how loose the security was around personal data when compared to card or bank accounts,” he explains. “And it’s only gotten worse over the years.” He’s right.

Before data scientist Jae Young Lee joined Dots in 2017, the mobile game studio only employed one other data scientist who was responsible for manually running all of the company’s Python scripts and SQL queries. Lee took it upon himself to help his colleague and decided to automate everything with AWS Data Pipeline.

Although AI/ML have seemingly spread rather quickly over the past few years, growth had been inhibited by the large resources required to build and train these models. That is, until about a year ago. In an effort to lower the barriers that used to come with building AI and ML solutions, AWS launched Sagemaker late-last year.

Tink, a personal finance management app based in Sweden, has a unique end goal in mind for its users: financial happiness. “We really wanted to take the complexity out of money management by presenting your finances and financial behavior in a more insightful way, and in the end, bring financial happiness,” says Jens Rantil, software and infrastructure engineer at Tink.

Earlier this month, Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut headed to the 13th arrondissement of Paris to interview startups at Station F, the largest startup campus in the world.

The Australian startup scene is a burgeoning market that’s ripe for expansion. Just in the state of New South Wales—home to Sydney, Australia’s largest city—high-growth small and medium-sized business created over one new million jobs between 2008 and 2014, despite comprising only 6 percent of the state’s businesses.

Kyruus is a solution company for solving supply-demand mismatches in healthcare. Co-Founder Julie Yoo talks about how they use big data to offer customers the best provider within their network.

AWS is headed to Hong Kong the week of July 9th for the 2018 RISE conference, which is Asia’s largest tech conference. Over 15,000 attendees from over 100 countries are expected to stop by throughout the week. AWS is excited to be a part of the action in Incense Harbour and will be hosting a variety of activities.

When developing a startup, it’s important to think about your company in the simplest terms possible. For Ryan Born, the CEO and co-founder of HAAWK, a company that helps to monetize and enforce copyrights on user-generated video and audio platforms (think YouTube, Facebook, and Spotify), his mission is simple: to create the TurboTax of music licensing.

On Thursday, May 31st, Mexico City hosted its first ever AWS Summit. Held at the Centro Citibanamex, the event was the year’s second Startup Central and attended by thousands of people all interested in entrepreneurship