AWS Startups Blog

Fintech companies like finAPI enable access to and analysis of banking data and thus support banks, financial service providers, insurance companies, and many other software providers to reposition their digital services and create customer-friendly value-added services.

As an investor, Eric Jensen, co-founder and CTO of Causality Link, was frustrated with how difficult and time consuming it was to project trends in financial markets. Too often, he found there was either no information available or only regurgitated sources, and he decided to change how investors consume information to make decisions. Eric started Causality Link to empower investor decisions with natural language processing (NLP) and provide information from around the globe in a consolidated and interactive platform.

Together, Proscia, JPC, and AWS are unleashing a new wave of biomedical research with endless potential to shape our understanding and diagnosis of current and future disease. Here’s how we’re doing it.

We recently shared the story of Tic:Toc, a digital home loan scale-up based in Adelaide, Australia, and the steps they took to set their initial foundations. Once your foundations are in place, having a process in place for assessing your architecture is important in building on top of that foundation. To learn more about how customers are evolving their security posture, we sat down with Alan McLeod, the CTO at FYI.

This week on the AWS Security Blog we will be sharing a post for startups and small teams on how they can improve their security in the cloud. We also want to share two customer stories about their journey to achieving a solid security backbone in the cloud. In this post, we hear from Tic:Toc, a fintech startup based in Australia.

In his AWS Garage ScaleUp Partner series, Jonno Southam on the AWS Startup Business Development team has invited the most prominent scale coaches to pitch their industry leading thought leadership content to AWS customers to help provide those customers with insights in their areas of expertise. These include topics such as growth strategies, branding, culture, and understanding startup KPIs (key performance indicators) amongst others that we will explore throughout 2021. In episode one, they dive into sustained revenue growth.

In a new initiative to support founders attending universities, AWS launched the U.S. University Startup Competition in October 2020, giving startups a chance to showcase their ventures to investors, mentors, and the startup community and win prizes. Meet the winners here.

Didimo, which means “twin” in Greek, has built a platform for creating realistic 3D digital versions of people, based on simple photos or scans. That capability has potential applications in a host of industries, from AR/VR and video games to retail, fashion, and communications—really anywhere people want to have authentic, engaging, immersive experiences.

Learn how the winner of the 2020 AWS Startup Architecture Challenge, Datacoral, is leveraging AWS to change the data game.

The body is often a mystery, and it’s nice when an external source is able to provide expert, evidence-based information about it. Flo App, a holistic health and wellbeing platform that helps women understand their bodies and minds, was built to do just that. Founded in 2015, Flo supports women as they make better informed decisions about their reproductive, physical, and mental health.