Solara Health Accepted into the AWS Founders Program

18th April 2026

In April 2026 we were accepted into the Amazon Web Services Founders program, an initiative that backs high-potential startups with credits, technical support and access to the AWS ecosystem. That recognition matters to us. It's a signal that the people backing early-stage startups see something in what we're building, and in the team building it. We received a special package of credits on the strength of our founding team's track record, with both our CEO Josh Farrington and CTO Tom Manderson recognised as repeat founders.

Josh previously co-founded Muse Digital, a Melbourne-based technology consulting and recruitment firm supporting enterprise, government and scale-up clients across healthcare, fintech and insurance, where he continues to lead operations in a profitable, multi-year business. He's also played a pivotal round in founding a previous digital health startup.

Tom brings over two decades of engineering and founding experience, including co-founding Flint, a digital agency he scaled over 16 years into a multidisciplinary team delivering high-traffic platforms for major clients, and Alpaca Travel, a global SaaS platform serving millions of users. Together, their backgrounds combine deep product, engineering and commercial experience across both startup and enterprise environments.

Behind the scenes, AWS has been part of how Solara runs from the start. Our entire infrastructure lives in the cloud, from the servers that power Skye to the data pipelines that keep everything running securely and reliably. For a health tech platform handling sensitive patient information, the robustness and security of that foundation isn't just a nice-to-have. It's everything.

Being part of the AWS Founders program gives our team access to resources that let us move faster and build smarter. This means more time solving real problems for patients and less time worrying about the infrastructure underneath.