Tag: Australia

This week on the AWS Security Blog we will be sharing a post for startups and small teams on how they can improve their security in the cloud. We also want to share two customer stories about their journey to achieving a solid security backbone in the cloud. In this post, we hear from Tic:Toc, a fintech startup based in Australia.

FloodMapp is a world-first flood modelling solution, purpose-built for flood forecasting and early warning. Aimed at improving safety and preventing damage, FloodMapp provides highly accurate, real-time, property-specific, and dynamic flood inundation and depth insights for businesses exposed to flooding. It is 10,000 faster and 200 higher resolution than traditional models in an emergency response setting. Here’s how it works.

These are not the times to try and dance around the realities of what it takes (and costs) to run a startup, says Emma Weston, CEO and co-founder of Sydney, Australia-based AgriDigital. AgriDigital straddles the worlds of farming and fintech, offering a platform for buyers and sellers of commodity crops like grain and cotton to do business with more speed and transparency.

Founded in 2012, Eagle.io offers a data-analytics platform that enterprises use to monitor environmental sensors. Learn more about the company and how its current CEO went from customer to leader.

“With more and more businesses online, and more and more tools to attack digital storefronts and web apps, why would a criminal perform a physical break-in or theft?” says Ghin Khoo, Sales Manager at Kasada, an Australian cybersecurity company focused on the emerging Bot Risk Management space.

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.

Fleet CEO Flavia Tata Nardini wants to connect you to every part of the world, and her plan to make it happen is out of this world. That’s not hyperbole.