Author: Mikey Tom

Founded in 2013, Arkose Labs offers an array of tools to help enterprises protect themselves against fraudulent activity.

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.

Founded in 2017, Lime is an urban transportation company that provides smart bikes and scooters for consumers to travel around cities.

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.

Panoply is a smart data warehouse for BI and basically layers machine learning algorithms on top of Amazon Redshift.

The cars used during Formula 1 races are incredibly advanced, many housing up to 120 sensors creating three gigabytes of data within a single race. To better leverage all of this data, Formula 1 has partnered with AWS to move the vast majority of its infrastructure to the cloud from on-premise solutions. Check out the above interview with Adrian Cockroft, VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy at AWS, to learn more.

With serverless on the rise, an increasing number of startups are popping up to help support the growing ecosystem. One such company is Epsagon, which helps users of these services—such as AWS Lambda—to monitor, trace, and understand the costs of their applications. Check out our interview with Nitzan Shapira, Co-founder and CEO of Epsagon, to learn more about the company and its recent partnership with AWS.

Founded in 2012, San Francisco-based AppsFlyer aims to offer data-driven marketers what they need to be successful.

Founded in 2014, Azoomee’s mission is to make screen time positive for kids ages 5-10.

Robot Care Systems has built a robotic walker designed to provide additional safety and stability to users.