AWS Startups Blog
Category: Startup
Startup Central is Heading to Mexico City!
AWS Summits is a free, global event series that brings the cloud community together and next week, AWS will be in Mexico City where Stephen Orban (General Manager, New Initiative, AWS Marketplace) will be delivering the keynote.
ofo’s Multimodal Wheelhouse: Dockless Bike-Sharing Platform Rolls into Cities Worldwide
It’s a dilemma almost as old as the internal combustion engine: you’re too far to walk somewhere yet too close to drive. In transit circles, it’s called the “first-mile/last-mile problem,” and the team at ofo is looking to solve it.
Hot Startups for May 2018: Schoology, MissionU, EdCast
As the internet becomes more accessible to a wider audience of users all around the world—especially school-age children and other learners—the field of education technology has boomed.
Sarah Moran on Going from Girls’ Night to Launching Girl Geek Academy
On International Women’s Day 2014, Sarah Moran sat down with the women who would become her fellow Girl Geek Academy co-founders to lament the state of hackathons—events, which can go on for days, focused on bringing tech minds together to build products, launch apps, and engage in collaborative computer programming.
AWS teams up with GIST at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress
AWS joined hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers, and other startup champions from more than 170 countries at the 2018 Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) in Istanbul, Turkey last month.
Startups on Air takes on London
Mackenzie Kosut, Global Startup Evangelist, and Startups on Air, Kosut’s video series, took London by storm last week, chatting with CEOs, CTOs, and lead engineers from eight different startups throughout the city.
Orbit Brings Smartphone Augmented Reality into the Classroom
Imagine you’re sitting in your classroom for a biology lesson on the respiratory system and instead of conventional books, we place a breathing human being right in front of you. You can remove its skin and are allowed to step inside the organs and see how the nose, larynx, heart, and lungs work together to help us breathe. Imagine how clear your understanding would be after learning this way. That’s what Orbit does.
Dome9 on Static Code Analysis of Your Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has emerged as an essential strategy associated with organizations’ DevOps practices. Tools such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform allow software-defined infrastructure to be deployed quickly and repeatedly to the public cloud infrastructure.
The Road to Cloud Nirvana: The Madrona Venture Group’s View on Serverless
As more companies move towards this mode of application development, we expect to see a massive amount of innovation around AI and machine learning, application of AI to vertically-focused applications, and new applications for IOT devices driven by the ability for companies to build products faster than ever.
Starling Bank CTO Greg Hawkins on the Future of Banking
Starling Bank CTO Greg Hawkins talks about taking on an incumbent industry like banking, working with regulators, and helping customers live a more financially happy life.