Recent Posts by Amy Sorrells

[Editor's Note: We continue to add new startups to this running list. It was last updated on April 14, 2020.]  Startups are known to be adaptive, innovative, and agile. When there’s a crisis or disruption, these up-and-coming businesses are quick with a solution, and this situation is no different. Despite being hit hard themselves, startups are stepping up to help by offering their virtual technologies and resources for free. Among them, we are proud to share, are several...

Security is a critical consideration for businesses of every size. Startups can earn and keep their customers' trust with good data practices and technology that enables security at every turn.  By providing secure and scalable cloud resources, Oracle helps startups prove their credibility to enterprise customers.  Startups partner with Oracle for many reasons. Cost savings, connections to enterprise tools, and a global network of customers mean startups can grow both their...

Among the many benefits of cloud computing, the ability to scale resources up or down based on demand is one of the most impactful, especially for startups. This scalability gives companies the performance they need, when they need it, to meet the fluctuating demands of their startup business.  Beyond flexible scale, startups depend on a cloud’s stability to protect against latency or downtimes that affect performance for customers.  A growing number of developers and startups...

Developers want choice when creating, not headaches with IT operations and vendor lock-in.   Open source and open standards—with languages, databases, and compute shapes—are a critical consideration for startups as they select cloud providers, especially as more and more companies consider a multi-cloud approach.  A recent report cited openness as a developer’s top reason for choosing a cloud. We are seeing that play out in real time. Startups who migrate to Oracle Cloud cite...

Smart allocation of capital matters to all businesses, but especially to growing startups where every dollar counts. Saving money on capital-intensive costs like technology infrastructure is super important, particularly when those savings can be reinvested back into the company to increase efficiencies and maximize profits. When cost savings come with a better performing product, that’s a price-performance ratio that’ll make your CFO and investors smile. Consider Snap Tech...

Oracle for Startups is a hotspot for startups that need blazing performance from their cloud.  With data source quantity and volume exploding, high performance computing (HPC) is what startups need to deliver innovation in fields from biomedical advances to protecting fragile ecosystems. Expanding beyond the traditional definitions of HPC, environments that deal with massive amounts of data, active real-time analysis, and immense computational power require a high performance...

The NORAD Tracks Santa ® website has become a holiday tradition, with more than 20 million excited children and parents flocking to the site every Christmas Eve to keep tabs on Santa’s path around the world. As if that’s not exciting enough, the cloud startup that helps power the world-famous Santa Tracker is joining Oracle for Startups.  Cesium, a complete platform for 3D geospatial data, has joined Oracle's startup program to scale their business and technical capabilities....

AptivIO uses AI and real-time market data to automate and enhance the sales process They joined Oracle for Startups because of technology, but they’re staying for the revenue-generating opportunities Oracle Cloud is proving more robust, scalable and reliable than Azure How far can you get into your day before hearing or reading the word “autonomous”? 30 minutes? An hour? From vehicles to chatbots to intelligent applications, autonomous is everywhere, but autonomous sales...

Earlier this year, we announced that Oracle for Startups was co-developing a blockchain project for selected startups through a collaboration with Chainlink, a decentralized blockchain oracle network infrastructure, and experts from Oracle Blockchain, LinkPool and Honeycomb. So why should startups care?  Two big reasons: Revenue generation and innovation. The goal of the project is to enable an ecosystem where startups can generate new revenue from smart contracts executed on...