AWS Startups Blog
Tag: Startup Spotlight
ICYMI: Meet the Inaugural Cohort of the Impact Accelerator, Come with Us to AWS Summit Atlanta, and More
Each month, the AWS Startups blog is packed with announcements, resources, stories, and videos. Let’s get caught up on anything that you might have missed in June.
Read MoreICYMI: A Startup’s Guide to AWS Services, Experiences from AWS Summit San Francisco That Will Give You FOMO, and More
Each month, the AWS Startups blog is packed with announcements, resources, stories, and videos. Let’s get caught up on anything that you might have missed in May.
Read MoreVideo: How Ergatta Partnered with AWS to Develop and Launch the Future of Game-based Fitness
Like many startups before them, the team behind the Ergatta Rower turned to AWS to help them develop and launch their product. Watch this video to learn more about the co-founders’ journey, including how they’re utilizing AWS’s guidance, services, tools, and technology to build the future of game-based fitness.
Read MoreBuilding Community with Common Room and AWS
Communities are vital to the health of individuals and companies, but they can be sprawling, disjointed, and difficult to grasp—especially online. Enter Common Room, which co-founder and Chief Architect Tom Kleinpeter describes as a community-intelligence platform that provides a single view into everything that’s important in your online community, across all the different places it might be happening.
Read MoreMonika Liikamaa, CEO of Enfuce Financial Services: “Regulators are people too.”
Regulators are people too. That’s what Monika Liikamaa, CEO of Enfuce Financial Services, wants to remind other founders who complain about meeting the strict standards of financial services regulators. “You have to be able to understand their concerns,” she says. “People are people, and they just want to feel secure that if they give a person a ‘go,’ the person they say okay to knows what they’re doing.” With Enfuce, the first infrastructure payments platform to run banks and financial institutions in a public cloud, Liikamaa’s solution to navigating the compliance process is doing her homework. For more from Liikamaa, including how she decides what features Enfuce should build and how she sees the banking industry evolving, listen here.
Read MoreTim Draper on why he thinks entrepreneurs should travel the world
Tim Draper is perhaps one of the world’s foremost proponents of Bitcoin. “It’s an exciting time for us bitcoin-ers,” the Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper Associates founding partner recently told AWS Startups. “In five years, you’re going to try to pay in fiat currency at Starbucks and they’re going to laugh at you.” In addition […]
Read MoreWeb Summit 2017: Data analytics startup Muzzley embodies Lisbon spirit
Lisbon is stepping up its game when it comes to attracting startups. Following the country’s $83 billion bailout by the European Union in 2011, the city—now in its second year of hosting the popular European tech conference Web Summit—is welcoming back the youth that fled the city during the downturn and encouraging new entrepreneurship with […]
Read MoreThat’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 […]
Read MoreScaling on AWS (Part 4) : > One Million Users
In the fourth and final part of this series, I want to show you how to scale an architecture to serve millions of users. If you have not…
Read MoreWhat’s Hot at AWS Pop-up Lofts in July
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