Category: Startup

Join us at Startup Central’s theater for a series of engaging talks from other startup companies’ CEOs, CTOs, and lead engineers. These talks will include information on various projects they’re working on, products/services they’ve used, and how they’ve leveraged AWS to ultimately find success. Featured startups include Zocdoc, Bustle, Redox, and more.

Notes from Founders is the first of a series of eBooks comprised of 25 original founder interviews split across five issues.

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.

To get a better understanding of the service and how it came to be, we sat down with one of the product managers of SageMaker, Kumar Venkateswar. He told us about what the team set out to build, the problems they were looking to fix, and what startups are currently using the service.

Tink, a personal finance management app based in Sweden, has a unique end goal in mind for its users: financial happiness.

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.