AWS Startups Blog
Startups on Air: Bounding Around Belgium
AWS Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut recently crisscrossed Belgium talking to its entrepreneurs and hearing their stories.
Willkommen! The AWS Pop-Up Loft returns to Munich
To tap into and assist the city’s technical talent, the AWS Pop-up Loft in downtown Munich will soon once again open its doors to the public.
That’s a wrap on the AWS Pop-up Loft London!
It’s been epic. More than 1,000 visitors, 12,000 Twitch views and counting, 36 breakout sessions, 19 live streams, 5 hands-on workshops, 3 networking evenings, 2 breakfast briefings, a Fintech innovation showcase, and an AWS Community Day later, we’ve now officially closed the London Pop-up Loft for yet another year. Thanks to an interesting mix of […]
Engineers from Buzzfeed, Sprinklr and General Assembly Speak at AWS’s New York Summit
In addition to announcing a slew of new products at this year’s Summit New York in New York, AWS invited over a dozen up-and-coming startups to speak during our Startup Lightning Talks program. Participants included everyone from Buzzfeed to General Assembly to shopping site Spring. You can watch the full lineup of speakers below: Buzzfeed Software engineer Justin […]
FinTech’s not disrupting financial services. Consumers are.
The concept of “banking on the go” was the topic du jour last week at a FinTech panel discussion hosted by AWS’s London Pop-up Loft.
Startup Battlefield Winners Pi on Presentation Prep, Picking Co-Founders, and Mastering Live Demos
Sometimes going first can have its advantages. Pi, a tech startup based in San Bruno, California that produces wireless charging devices, won the grand prize at the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2017. The first of the 22 competitors to give their presentation, Pi impressed two rounds of judges with their device’s ability to charge up to four phones at full speed, as long as they are located within a foot of Pi’s patented power platform.
Why GoPro is Migrating Their Online Video Hosting Services to Amazon ECS
To put that in context, Zaven Boni, a DevOps Manager for GoPro, recently explained to a room full of entrepreneurs at the AWS Startup Loft in San Francisco that GoPro Plus—the name of their online video hosting service—processes hundreds of thousands of API requests per minute; at peak times, it can even top half a million per minute.
Startups on Air: On the Ground in San Francisco
With 125, 175, and 160 employees, respectively, Periscope Data, Segment, and Turo are all growing companies with some similar startup aesthetics (work anniversary balloons abound in their offices). But each, as you can see in the videos below, is working on a unique problem and trying to keep their customers happy.
Drumroll please: The AWS Pop-up Loft London is back!
We are extremely excited to welcome the AWS Pop-up Loft back to London. From Sept. 18 to 29, the Loft—newly located in the heart of Shoreditch—will offer startups and AWS enthusiasts an opportunity to talk to AWS technical experts, attend training workshops, participate in networking events, and enjoy our onsite co-working facilities.
Securing Funding from VCs: The Changing Rules for Startups
according to venture capitalist Charles Hudson, a partner at Precursor Ventures, such playbook tactics have gotten stale. As he recently told a roomful of attendees at the AWS Startup Day in San Francisco, technological and financial advancements have finally reached a point where the old rules should no longer be treated as gospel.