AWS Startups Blog
Author: Mikey Tom
Mikey works on the AWS Startup Marketing team to help highlight awesome founders leveraging the AWS ecosystem in interesting ways. Prior to his time at AWS, Mikey led the venture capital news coverage at PitchBook, researching and writing about industry trends and events.
Carlabs Brings AI-Based Customer Service to the Auto Industry
Founded in 2015, Carlabs.ai offers an artificial intelligence-based customer service platform for the auto industry.
Building a New Global Addressing System with what3words
Startups are almost all founded on an idea that sounds a bit crazy at the beginning. From Uber to Airbnb, companies’ early days are often marked by doubts, until one day they’re planning to go public and we’re all wondering how we lived without them. Well, what3words may fall firmly in that category.
Renovo Helps Autonomous Vehicle Companies Manage Their Mountains of Data
While data is extremely important in all technology industries, this importance is perhaps taken to another level with autonomous driving. Autonomous vehicles, for example, will generate roughly four to five terabytes of data an hour, meaning a fleet of 2,000 cars will generate more data a day than Facebook. That’s per Chris Heiser, Co-Founder and CEO of Renovo, a startup built to help companies process these new streams of data.
Want to Launch Your Startup in China? Get to Know the Market First
Before anyone can dive into the Chinese market, noted GSR Ventures Partner Yuechen Zhao at a recent AWS event in San Francisco, it’s important to understand what drives China, and how it is different from other markets around the world.
Intermix.io Helps You Monitor Your Data Flows on AWS
Founded in 2016, intermix.io enables data engineers with the tools they need to be successful. This in turn enables the data scientists to actually be successful. But how does the startup do it?
Techstars London’s Marko Srsan Explains How to Get Involved with the Accelerator
Check out our video interview with Marko Srsan, Program Director of Techstars London, to learn more about the organization and how startups can get in with their U.K. outpost.
Deliveroo Leverages AWS to Quickly Ship New Products
From PR to production, the Deliveroo Application Platform needs to get developers’ code into running containers as quickly and safely as possible. Check out the above talk from re:Invent 2018 to hear from Ben Cordero, Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo, about his team’s process for safely shipping software with support for automatic rollbacks, service scaling and configuration management.
Warung Pintar Brings Tech-enabled Stalls to Street Vendors
Founded in 2017, Warung Pintar offers street vendors tech-enabled stalls that include internet connectivity for customers, a digital POS system, LCD displays, and more.
Making Developers’ Lives Easier with GitLab VP Brandon Jung
With the introduction of Git, developers are better able to track changes in files and coordinate working on those files among multiple people, making DevOps easier, as well as developers’ lives. According to Brandon Jung, VP Alliances at GitLab, this is just the beginning.
Hiber Offers Global IoT Connectivity Through its Network of Custom Small Satellites
Based in Amsterdam, Hiber is building a global Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity hub that is linked together by a network of small satellites.