AWS Startups Blog
Category: Startup
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.
How Flexport Uses Tracking Data to Guide Shipments Through Weather Disruptions
When most people think about global trade, they usually imagine planes, trains, automobiles, and ships. What they fail to picture are the companies that orchestrate how all those services to work together—companies like the full-service air and ocean freight forwarder Flexport.
Kyruus is Helping Health Systems Make Better Patient Access a Reality
Kyrus is focused on solving what we call the associated “patient access paradox”–a situation in which patients wait long periods to see providers while appointment capacity simultaneously goes unutilized, even at top health systems.
Blue Hexagon Cybersecurity Fights Fire With Fire Using Deep Learning
Business technology may be growing increasingly complex, but when it comes to cybersecurity, it remains a game of cat and mouse. Hackers and cyber criminals are currently creating malware at an unprecedented level to infiltrate websites around the world, disrupt business, steal company secrets, shut down sites, and take customers’ information. In 2017 alone, over 120 million new malware samples were detected. And even if your business deploys state-of-the-art signature-based detection systems and malware sandboxing, it can quickly get overwhelmed by a daily deluge of new threats. Sunnyvale, Calif-based Blue Hexagon, however, thinks it’s cracked the problem.
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.
How Coinbase Builds Its Blockchain Infrastructure
Coinbase is a marketplace to buy and sell digital currency. It’s one of the best-known portals for anyone hoping to approach the crypto-currency market, because it’s the “easiest and most trusted place to buy, sell, and manage your digital currency,” according to Jack Kearney, a software engineer at Coinbase working on infrastructure and security.
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.
CryptoMove on Making the Cloud More Secure and Effective for Developers
In this article highlighting AWS’ partnership with CryptoMove, we’ll discuss how innovations like moving target defense make the cloud more secure and effective for developers.