AWS Startups Blog

This October, more than 200 investors and entrepreneurs will gather in New York City for a pitch and panel event where four seasoned founders, whittled down from a list of 200 contenders, will compete for a $20,000 prize. Just one winner will snag the cash, but no one will walk away empty-handed, since the event is designed to provide female founders with the contacts, funding, networking opportunities, and resources that male founders have already been receiving for decades.

German software startup Baqend has developed Speed Kit as an SaaS solution for accelerating e-commerce websites. Here’s how they did it.

In support of the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration, AWS partnered with revolutionary accelerator Y Combinator and Elpha, a startup professional network for women in tech, to host an evening reception for female startup founders.

Given that the gains from onshore oil drilling, and in yield and efficiency are beginning to flatten, the oil and gas industry needs to dive into another deep engineering phase to once again increase efficiency.

Analysts estimate that by 2021, videos will account for over 80% of consumer internet traffic. To stand out companies and brands will need to maximize the value of their content and understand how a story, a posting, a video can be optimized to leverage consumers interest. Identifying and owning the relevant data to achieve this is just the first step in the new workflow. Aiconix, named one of the 30 most promising startups in the German speaking regions by Forbes magazine, is doing just that.

Berlin-based House of Crops is an agtech startup that’s digitalizing the world’s most traditional industry: agriculture. COO Maximilian Commandeur recently sat down to tell us more.

Complete Auto Reports (CAR) is the brain child of New Jersey-based car mechanic Ricardo Da Cruz. Cruz shares how these challenges inspired him to build his own enterprise software, how that software works, and where he sees the industry going next.

Less than 10% of India’s population is able to get loans from banks. Technology can address this problem by reducing the costs of processing as well as distribution. A growing group of Indian fintech companies led by NIRA Finance are now addressing this market for small-ticket loans.

Armory is commercializing the distribution of Spinnaker, an open source continuous delivery platform that large companies use to safely and quickly ship software. CEO DROdio visited the San Francisco AWS Loft to tell us more.

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