Tag: Big Data

Founders and experts from Nestio, REX Real Estate, MetaProp, Compound Asset Management, and Corigin Ventures, met at the AWS Loft in NYC to discuss how the application of AI, automation, big data, and other emerging technologies can offer boundless opportunities and benefits for entrepreneurs looking to tap into the market.

For Ira Cohen, founder and chief data scientist of Anodot, timing is everything. Despite having 11 years of work at Hewlett Packard under his belt, he always knew that when the right idea and timing struck, he’d make his way into the startup world. The right idea? Anodot, an autonomous analytics company that uses machine learning techniques to equip business owners with the tools they need to learn and grow using data.

Containers and Serverless are fast gaining traction and organizations understand that their cloud spending is sometimes suboptimal; they are constantly looking for ways to optimize their spend without any additional operational overhead. This problem is compounded by a severe talent shortage in the market.

Kyrus is focused on solving what we call the associated “patient access paradox”–a situation in which patients wait long periods to see providers while appointment capacity simultaneously goes unutilized, even at top health systems.

With an aim to make the overwhelming variety of master data simple to consume, Bernhard Bicher and Tobias Widmer founded Onedot in 2014 in Zürich Switzerland, with a focus on processing structured and semi-structured product master data.

Panoply is a smart data warehouse for BI and basically layers machine learning algorithms on top of Amazon Redshift.

Felix Perdana, Software Engineering Manager at Traveloka, talks about working for a “unicorn” startup based out of Indonesia, how engineers are different from programmers, and key technical lessons he has learned. He also shares how the company uses AWS to maintain visibility into (and behind) its systems.

Couchbase is NoSQL database and data management software maker best known for creating the world’s first “Engagement Database.” Known as the Couchbase Data Platform, the distributed, multi-cloud, and mobile NoSQL document database is based on a memory-first, async everywhere architecture. AWS Startups recently interviewed Wayne Carter, Couchbase’s Vice President of Mobile, about the company’s mission, methods, and most successful ideas. 

In the fall of 2016, Jeff Gerber, Suplari’s co-founder and CTO, approached me with a simple solution to a growing business problem. He had noticed that most data within organizations was too siloed, making it hard to surface basic analytics.

gridX co-founders Andy Booke and David Balensiefen came up with the idea for their IoT startup, gridX, while travelling in Ecuador, where the stability of the power grid left something to be desired.