Tag: AWS Startups on Air

I recently embarked on a journey to bring AWS Startup Days to Johannesburg, Lagos, Accra and Nairobi. Here’s what I learn about startups, founders, and investors as I engaged with some of the hottest startup ecosystems in Africa.

Ever wondered how growing startups use AWS to build, scale, and change the ways their customers live and work? Read on to learn how three London-based mobile app startups got their starts and what AWS tools and services they used to launch their MVPs.

This past September, AWS Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut visited South Africa to learn how African Startups are solving regional entrepreneurial challenges. These include an unstable Internet, low bank penetration, limited smartphone availability, lack of access to education, informal to formal transportation, legacy insurance options, and even mailing logistics in areas with no established postal systems.

Learn more details about how TransferWise, OakNorth, Funding Circle and Monzo all leverage the benefits of the AWS cloud.

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.

For some people, road trips are all about scenery, snacks, and just getting away from it all. For Mackenzie Kosut, Amazon’s globe-trotting AWS startup evangelist, it’s all about supporting the world’s most innovative and undiscovered businesses.

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.

Over 40,000 attendees from every corner of healthcare descended upon Las Vegas last week for the annual HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Conference. Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut took advantage of this massive event to talk to nine healthcare startups, weaving his way through the expo halls to chat with CEOs, CTOs, and heads of engineering for his Startups on Air video series.

AWS’s annual re:Invent conference may not traditionally be known for its startup scene, but at this year’s iteration, Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut took advantage of the massive event to chat with five hot startups for his Startups on Air video series.

AWS Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut recently crisscrossed Belgium talking to its entrepreneurs and hearing their stories.