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Wealth management chatbot Cleo’s users use a colloquial style to communicate with her, much as if they were talking to a friend, and it’s important that Cleo understands and responds helpfully. Their team explains how SageMaker helps.

The future is bright with innovative ideas ready to take flight, so Startup Series: Notes from Founders Vol.02 is dedicated to you. Enjoy the series. Build on.

Keatext, an AI-powered analytics platform, interprets textual customer feedback. Co-founder and CEO Narjès Boufaden, tells us more.

Ben Sanders, CTO of Proof, talks about how the Toronto-based startup helps cut through governmental red tape by streamlining approvals. He also shares his thoughts on cloud technology simplifying government processes, and what’s next in 2019.

Co-founders Shane O’Sullivan and Oran Mulvey break down how Glimpse uses computer vision to analyze the demographics of those who approach physical ad spaces. They also discuss the makeup of their customer base, the importance of privacy in ad tech, and how AWS has helped the startup grow. 

Sarah Nahm is the CEO at Lever, a software company in San Francisco that’s building modern talent software to help companies power their next-generation recruiting. For Nahm, a typical day is shaped by a series of highly intentional interactions with her team. Some of these are scheduled, some are serendipitous, all are crafted to prime her employees, and therefore her company, for success.

Jamie Sutherland, CTO of Scottish e-commerce startup Mallzee, explains how the platform acts as both Tindr-style product aggregator and a predictive analytics tool for retail businesses. He also shares why machine learning is critical to Mallzee’s success.

Founded in 2013, Canopy offers account aggregation, portfolio analytics, and client reporting to firms that manage the money of high net worth individuals (HNIs), family offices, and external asset managers (EAMs). CTO Amit Gupta sat down to tell us more.

Huub Heijnen, Co-founder and CTO of Scape Technologies, explains why large scale 3D mapping is critical to the work — creating an image-driven visual positioning system — that the computer vision startup is doing.

Engineering Manager of Infrastructure, Jacob Stultz, and Senior Platform Engineer, Jeff Pollard, of Strava, share how they rely on a robust ephemeral cache in Redis to more quickly and effectively service the majority of their reads.