AWS Startups Blog
PulpoAR Uses Machine Learning to Build an Augmented Reality Shopping Experience for Beauty Products
PulpoAR looks to bring together the digital and physical worlds using augmented reality. The company has launched its platform with the ability to virtually try on makeup online, but plans to expand into other categories, like skincare, in the near future.
HackerEarth Scales Up Continuous Integration for Future Needs with AWS
One of the goals of every fast-paced organization is to have a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline that ensures every check-in is best verified before it can be pushed to production. HackerEarth wanted to achieve a CI model that has enough safety nets for every check-in that goes into each Pull Request (PR), as well as make the process scalable and cost effective. These safety nets in the pipeline provide constructive feedback for the PR, and the necessary steps are then taken to mitigate the gaps. For integration tests in this pipeline, HackerEarth used AWS CodeBuild along with Amazon S3 and Amazon ECR.
FutureFit AI Is Building a GPS for Your Career
FutureFit AI’s platform is designed to help guide individuals through the process of planning their careers. It starts with first figuring out where they are, then gaining an understanding of where they want to go and helping them map a course between points A and B.
Brand Tracking with Bayesian Statistics and AWS Batch
Brand tracking startup Latana’s Senior Data Scientist Corrie Bartelheimer outlines how mathematical models and probability theory, specifically Bayesian methods, address some of the big problems in brand marketing and how AWS Batch, together with Metaflow, solves many of the technical issues that used to be major obstacles to using Bayesian methods at scale.
Creating Customized Business Applications with Clappia’s No Code Platform
Clappia is a no code platform where creating customized business applications is as easy as working with Excel sheets. Apps built on Clappia range from elementary to very complex, involving master data, automation workflows, and integrations with external systems. Its co-founders, Ashutosh Kumar and Sarthak Jain, walk us through how they achieved success.
SaaS Founder Series: Dremio’s Journey to Unicorn Status
The AWS SaaS Factory team invited Founder and Chief Product Officer of Dremio, Tomer Shiran, to discuss Dremio’s journey to software-as-a-service and to share key learnings for businesses building SaaS and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings on AWS.
Qbiq: Using AWS Lambda Container Images & Distributed ML to Optimize Construction
Real estate software startup Qbiq system delivers an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven space planning design engine that generates large volumes of customized floor plans, compares alternatives, and optimizes the results. They relied heavily on AWS Lambda image containers to achieve scale. Here’s how they did it.
Purple Ant on Using AWS to Transform the Insurance Industry
Purple Ant is a subscription-based property monitoring platform that enables its customers to detect, prevent, and track damage to their homes using IoT devices. We recently sat down to walk through how they’re leveraging AWS IoT Core to do it.
Syntegra: Bridging the Healthcare Data Gap
Despite the emergence of big data in healthcare, it remains nearly impossible to share useful, comprehensive, patient-level data sets externally due to strict privacy concerns. Even internally, it can be cumbersome to share data with other teams for analytic and educational purposes. These long-standing challenges led to the creation of Syntegra in 2019. We sat down with their CTO and Co-founder Ofer Mendelevitch to learn more.
Changing the Landscape of Molecular Testing
This past year has demonstrated, now more than ever, the critical need to be able to develop and deploy rapid molecular testing at scale. The ability to do this has emerged as a major differentiator for ChromaCode, a startup diagnostics company based in Carlsbad, California. Paul Flook, PhD, CIO and VP of Software Engineering walks us through their journey.