AWS Startups Blog

SupWiz uses advanced AI technology to help companies deliver improved customer service to millions of people across the world. Co-founder and Chief AI Officer Søren Dahlgaard explains.

SELF TOKEN, a digital entertainment blockchain startup based in Taiwan, aims to create an “immersive entertainment ecosystem,” beginning by creating Asia’s first blockchain warfare film, The Last Thieves. Co-founder, CEO, and director Jack Hsu, along with the movie’s economic advisor, Dr. Tom Lam, sat down to tell us more.

As Reid Hoffman says, starting a company is like “jumping off a cliff and building an airplane on the way down.”  It’s hard. Very, very hard! And being an entrepreneur can be one of the loneliest places on Earth, especially when you’re staring down a challenge that you’ve never seen before and don’t know who to turn to. That’s why AWS and Masters of Scale are partnering to create this unique opportunity for startups to help startups. 

Sarah Garner, Founder of Retykle, an online platform for buying and selling designer baby and kids’ clothing, explains what inspired her to found the Hong Kong-based startup, what her best advice is for founders, and what’s on the roadmap for 2019.

Oil and gas operators are feeling the pinch. “Their wells are underperforming, so they can’t get enough oil out of the ground and they are missing financial forecasts,” says Josh Ulla, Chief Development Officer at Deep Imaging. Analytics are the life blood of the business world, but they haven’t yet taken a strong hold in the energy industry. That’s where startups like Deep Imaging Technologies come in.

As customers are distributed across different channels of acquisition, including social media, display advertising, or paid search, marketers need to deploy a strategy that spans across web, mobile, in-app, SMS, email, Facebook. The strategy also needs to follow the customer’s multi-platform journey to purchase. Founded in 2011, WebEngage enables marketers to do just this.

Measurable AI is building a platform to provide its clients with hyper-current information about sales trends and product retention rates—information that’s in high demand by stakeholders but can otherwise take companies months to compile and release. Founder Heatherm Huang tells us more.

While the oil and gas industry has a great history of collaboration on engineering and technology and is the source of many pioneering inventions, it is also highly regulated, under significant competitive pressures, and capital intensive, which has resulted in the creation of barriers to the sharing of information at an industry level, Rana Basu says. That’s why he and his Co-Founder Jean-Pierre Foehn decided to start Ondiflo, with the goal of delivering the benefits of IOTs, machine learning, and blockchain technology.

Developer workflow KintoHub enables developers to build cloud-native apps. Founder Joseph Cooper shares how trying to find the sweet spot between a gaming API development platform and GitHub eventually led to KintoHub’s creation. Cooper also talks through how customers use KintoHub, how many startups he has founded, and what his thoughts are on the Hong Kong startup scene.

Temi is a personal robot that hopes to revolutionize communication. CEO Gal Goren shares how temi’s autonomous nature allows for an improved user experience, like hands-free video calling or tight subject matter focus. He also walks through the depth of its integration with Amazon Alexa, what its use cases are, and why the time for temi is now.