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Gremlin: Chaos Engineering and Providing Failure as a Service
Gremlin CEO and Co-Founder Kolton Andrus wants you to think of his company as a flu shot. “We basically inject a little of harm [into your system] in order to find weak spots and build an immunity,” he says. “We proactively break things… to help make them stronger.” While Andrus notes that the idea of preparing for disaster isn’t new—”we were doing hardware failure testing in the 60s and 70s and people were writing papers about this in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s”—what they have noticed is that migrating to the Cloud has introduced new challenges.
Read MoreHow Arkose Labs Built a Toolkit to Fight Fraud
Founded in 2013, Arkose Labs offers an array of tools to help enterprises protect themselves against fraudulent activity.
Read MoreAI-Powered IT Analytics with Numerify
Numerify is an AI-powered IT analytics company that provides businesses, such as Fortune 500 companies, with these solutions, using predictive analysis to gauge how likely it is that these changes will be successful.
Read MoreModern Giving With Pinkaloo’s Gideon Taub
Gideon Taub, founder and CEO of Pinkaloo, has studied the issue of engaging millenials, and he’s become something of an expert. He knows that the desire for social consciousness extends to employment choices.
Read MoreScalable, Automated Data Preparation with the Power of AI
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.
Read MoreKeeping It Simple: 8 Securities CEO Mikaal Abdulla on Value and Data in Fintech
8 Securities, a mobile-only investment service based in Hong Kong, is a company looking to change the paradigm of finance.
Read MoreHow Dollar Shave Club Keeps Their Grooming Products Affordable Using CircleCI and AWS
At face value, Dollar Shave Club looks like a fairly simple service. Users come to the site and are able to search through various grooming products, such as shower gels, toothpastes, or, of course, razors. The simplicity and ease of navigation is no mistake, however, with the DSC engineering team focusing heavily on creating a seamless user experience that showcases the company’s affordable products.
Read MoreHow Lime Leverages Data to Keep Their E-Scooters Charged and Accessible
Founded in 2017, Lime is an urban transportation company that provides smart bikes and scooters for consumers to travel around cities.
Read MoreKasada Defends Companies Against Online Break-ins
“With more and more businesses online, and more and more tools to attack digital storefronts and web apps, why would a criminal perform a physical break-in or theft?” says Ghin Khoo, Sales Manager at Kasada, an Australian cybersecurity company focused on the emerging Bot Risk Management space.
Read MoreOnline-lending Platform Konfío Helps LATAM SMEs Get Funding
As some economies develop, small businesses that also develop and grow can sometimes be left out in the rain when searching for capital. Banks frequently look for collateral to be posted with loans, which can be difficult for smaller companies. This gap in offering is exactly where many startups are flourishing via assessing companies credit statuses through atypical methods or data, and providing financing to the previously underserved. Konfío, a fintech startup founded in 2013, does just that for micro-businesses throughout Latin America.
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