AWS Startups Blog

Adam Hijleh, Co-founder and CTO of digital mortgage platform Doorr, chats about what inspired his team to build the Toronto-based startup, why he chose to dive into a decidedly non-technical industry, and where he sees Doorr going next.

Jonno Southam leads Venture Capital (VC) business development for AWS in Europe. He is also an Amazon ‘Bar Raiser,’ a role dedicated to maintaining the high hiring bar. Here, Jonno shares his thoughts on the hiring process and his experience at AWS.

Founded in 2011, Mobilewalla offers a customer insights platform that enables enterprises to leverage a wealth of data to better understand and target their customers.

Serial entrepreneur and Hockeystick founder Raymond Luk talks about how the Canadian startup uses data to match entrepreneurs with the right investors.

Fintech startup Extend is a digital credit card distribution platform and mobile app that allows enterprises to distribute virtual credit card numbers. Co-founder and CTO Danny Morrow and software architect Ian Enders sat down to explain.

Alcohol, in addition to being one of the largest revenue drivers in retail, is also one of the most highly regulated industries in the country, with restrictions that vary from state to state. These varying restrictions make alcohol difficult to sell via apps, resulting in missed sales opportunities for retailers. That’s where BYBE comes in.

Junwei Bao, Co-founder and CEO of LiDAR technology developer Innovusion, and Jason Ferns, its Director of Marketing and Applications, sat down to chat with us about LiDAR and autonomous driving.

For hawk:AI, many of the fraud challenges the financial industry faces can be overcome with the power of AWS machine learning.

Hiring the right people for your startup is one of the most important things that you will do as a founder. Beyond finding product/market fit, it’s probably the most important thing that you’ll do. Before joining AWS, I’d interviewed and hired a bunch of people as the CEO and Co-Founder of the live event startup Shortcut. Amazon, however, is the only employer that has actually taught and trained me how to properly interview and hire. I’d now like to share some of those lessons here because I think they are critical and particularly applicable to startups.

Nowadays, hardly a week goes by without fresh news of the struggles of media companies to adapt to the daunting economic landscape of the digital age. To face this challenge, iVideoSmart (IVS), a 3 year old startup based in Singapore, proposes an advertising business model based on the selling power of video.