AWS Startups Blog
Author: Michelle Kung
Michelle Kung currently works in startup content at AWS and was previously the head of content at Index Ventures. Prior to joining the corporate world, Michelle was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, the founding Business Editor at the Huffington Post, a correspondent for The Boston Globe, a columnist for Publisher’s Weekly and a writer at Entertainment Weekly.
The Road to Cloud Nirvana: The Venture Capitalist and Startup View on Serverless with Accel
Accel Partner Ping Li notes, The advent of cloud computing, which began in earnest with the launch of AWS in 2006, kickstarted an era of unprecedented new tools for developers — from minimizing operational overhead with IaaS to bypassing operations altogether with serverless services like AWS Lambda.
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GoGuardian’s Aza Steel on the Power of Listening and Iteration
Aza Steel might be a bit of a prodigy, but he never set out to be a technological savior for teachers and parents. In fact, when he first developed the Chrome browser extension that would become the seed of his company in the early aughts, he was just a UCLA sociology major trying to find a way to track his laptop’s location in case it was stolen.
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How Nauto Is Using AI & Ml to Build a Data Platform That Makes Driving Safer and Fleets Smarter
Founded in 2015, Nauto is focused on building a data platform to make vehicles on our roads safer while also improving the technology for autonomous vehicles in the future.
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What if you could A/B Test the Physical World?
Density has built a piece of enterprise hardware for corporate campuses that measures how space is used. Many believe the technology is key to optimizing how all physical space is used.
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Data in their DNA: Repositive.io Builds Common Ground for Genomic Research
What do you get when you put the world’s brightest scientists in a room, arm them with the most advanced tools of their trade, and get them to work on the world’s hardest problems? Not much without data. At least that’s the thought behind Repositive.io, the first portal for researchers to browse the world’s human genomic data.
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How Bark and Co. uses Amazon Comprehend for Both the User and Pet Experience
To improve their customer experience, Bark and Co VP of Engineering Becky Segal says the company started using AWS Comprehend to take custom, text-written responses from customers and get a better read on sentiment analysis.
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Safety First: HopSkipDrive and the Rideshare Economy
Joanna McFarland is the co-founder and CEO of HopSkipDrive, a ridesharing app specifically geared toward alleviating the daily stress of planning hectic family transportation schedules.
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8i Brings Holograms to a Living Room Near You
Beam me up, Scotty. You might not know it now, but these could be the four most influential words in the English language today. At least that’s what Steve Raymond, CEO of 8i, is shooting for.
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From Cinema to Civic Engagement: Pilotly’s James Norman on User-Focused Data Collection
James Norman, founder and CEO of Pilotly, may have come up through the entertainment industry, but he’s got a broader target in mind.
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Back to the Future: Van Robotics Embraces a Retro Feel for Its Robot Tutors
When designing a robot buddy for students, you’d think the more realistic looking the robot, the more appealing, right? Not so, says academic-turned-entrepreneur Laura Boccanfuso.
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