Category: Startup

Founded in 2016, Kavak is the digital platform that’s making it easier than ever to buy and sell cars. The Mexico City-based founded startup recently achieved “unicorn” status after reaching a $1.15 billion valuation, the first tech company in the country to do so. As Kavak expands its operations to Argentina and sets sights on Brazil, we sit down with Vice President of Data Science, Anders Christiansen, to chat about how machine learning and AWS serverless services helped build the engine behind the company’s ever-improving workflow.

Telehealth is changing healthcare as we know it. With platforms like Talkspace and Better Help at our fingertips, talk therapy in particular has become increasingly accessible. But according to William Negley, CEO of Sound Off, there are still major gaps to fill.

All medical coding must be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which has strict digital privacy rules in order to protect patient health information (PHI). Here’s how Nym Health does it with 98% accuracy.

There’s been plenty of attention paid by the media to the problems of facial recognition software in recent years. Invasion of privacy, for one, and high potential for misuse, for another. AIH Tech, a Toronto-based computer vision company, has set out to solve the problem that most other facial recognition technologies have faced in their bedrock: racial bias.

Web-based teleconferencing app Doxy.me saw explosive growth in the demand for their services after the COVID-19 pandemic began, with the peak being almost 3,000 sign-ups in a single day. With AWS, they were able to quickly readjust and rapidly scale their hardware to handle the influx. Here’s how they did it.

The fight against breast cancer has made progress over the past two decades thanks to advances in treatment and screening. But while mortality rates from the disease have fallen for women over 50, they remain frustratingly steady for younger women. Onkolyze, a startup based in Singapore, is hoping to help solve just that problem by applying high-powered AWS GPUs and ML, making early detection much easier.

Basepaws is the world’s first at-home consumer DNA test for cats. Anna Skaya, its CEO and Founder, walks us through how she grew the digital-first startup using Amazon Launchpad and leveraging the power of Prime Day.

In this post, we present a systematic approach to guide customers migrating a few commonly used cloud data analytics services from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to AWS. Rather than a detailed step-by-step implementation guide for a specific service, the post is intended to provide a holistic view and systematic approach for the migrations of these GCP services to AWS.

AWS Startup Advocate Mark Birch concludes his Founder Sales Series with advice on how to put all his tips and tricks together to create a more effective sales strategy for your startup.

CloudZero is a Boston-based cost intelligence platform that helps companies determine how best to invest in their cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2016, the startup uses machine learning to produce up-to-date cost insights, allowing engineers to make informed decisions in real-time when launching new products and features. With such a business, it makes sense that CloudZero has been closely tied in with AWS since the startup was founded.