Top 6 Startup Trends for 2022

Watch for startups to make a big splash in these areas this year

It would not be a proper entry to the new year if there were not a flurry of blogs posts, podcasts, and videos predicting the future. I normally avoid writing or discussing the future because there are plenty of others that jump in to fill that space and no one has a crystal ball. In the tech industry, this is especially tricky because the cycles of tech innovation and novelty turn so rapidly now.

Take the big tech trend of 2021. There were lots of things to get excited about, but the one trend almost everyone missed was NFT’s. The art and auction world went into a frenzy when Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million. Big brands and sports organizations dove into NFT’s. Twitter profile pics changed into cryptopunks and odd-looking apes. NFT’s went fully mainstream, and with NFT’s, so did the idea of buying and trading cryptocurrency, owning a digital wallet, and getting hip to Web3 lingo.

From my vantage point as the Global Startup Advocate at AWS, I have a unique perspective of seeing various trends emerge in my work. I am often in conversations with founders that are just getting started on taking crazy and outlandish ideas and turning them into reality. So, this year I figured, what the hell, let me take a few swings at what is going to…