Daniel Levi

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Daniel is a writer and editor for Tech Startups. Daniel has been involved in technology and gaming for over two decades. He has previous experience in software development and loves writing about emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and cryptocurrency. Daniel also enjoys hiking and camping.

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: Bitcoin has no value and authorities will soon ‘regulate the hell out of it’

Daniel Levi Posted On October 4, 2021

In 2017, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon took a shot at Bitcoin, saying the world’s most popular cryptocurrency “is a fraud.” At a gathering hosted by Barclays in New York, Dimon said, “It’s just not a real thing, eventually it will be closed.” […]

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Startup Funding / Tech Startup News / Tech Startups / Technology News / Venture Capital

Summit Partners raises $8.35 billion for its 11th fund to provide growth capital for startups and entrepreneurs

Daniel Levi Posted On October 4, 2021

Summit Partners, a global alternative investment firm, announced today it has raised $8.35 billion for its latest flagship U.S. growth equity fund. The Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund XI was launched in June 2021. Summit said the latest fund will target minority […]

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Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency / DeFi / Ethereum / Tech Startup News / Tech Startups / Technology News / Token

DeFi bug accidentally gives $162 million to users; founder is now begging and threatening users to return the tokens

Daniel Levi Posted On October 4, 2021

What started last Friday as one of the largest Decentralized Finance (DeFi) bugs in history is now turning out to be bigger than what everyone had originally anticipated. Last Friday, Compound Labs, a popular decentralized-finance staking protocol, reported that about $90 […]

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Acquisition / Self-Driving / Smart Car / Tech Startup News / Tech Startups / Technology News

Qualcomm, investment firm SSW Partners to buy Swedish automotive company Veoneer for $4.5 billion

Daniel Levi Posted On October 4, 2021

Qualcomm and investment firm SSW Partners announced on Monday they had reached a deal to buy Swedish company Veoneer for $4.5 billion in cash, according to news first reported by Reuters. Founded just three years ago, Veoneer is an American Swedish […]

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El Salvador becomes the first country to mine bitcoins using energy from volcanoes

Daniel Levi Posted On October 4, 2021

In June, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender alongside the US dollar. Even though the initial nationwide rollout hit a bumpy road due to some technical issues, many observers still called it a […]

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Al Gore invests $600 million in UK clean energy tech startup Octopus Energy Group at $4.6 billion valuation

Daniel Levi Posted On October 2, 2021

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has invested $600 million of equity in U.K. energy tech startup Octopus Energy Group. The funding, which valued the company at $4.6 billion, was made via Al Gore’s investment firm Generation Investment Management. As […]

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Science / Technology News

Shortage of carbon dioxide causing food shortages and mass disruption to food supplies in the UK

Daniel Levi Posted On October 1, 2021

The UK food industry, already stressed from supply chain woes and labor shortages due to Brexit and the covid pandemic, is now under even more pressure due to the lack of carbon dioxide (CO2). Yes, you read it right–lack of […]

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FinTech / Startup Funding / Tech Startup News / Tech Startups / Technology News

Top 100 Startups Reshaping the B2B Payments Fintech Market

Daniel Levi Posted On October 1, 2021

In 2020, the global GDP amounted to about $84.54 trillion, according to data from research firm Statista. On the other hand, the global B2B eCommerce market was estimated to be $12.2 trillion in 2019, which is over 6 times that […]

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Startup Funding / Technology News

SoftBank-backed Indian tech startup Oyo files for $1.2 billion IPO

Daniel Levi Posted On October 1, 2021

As you may recall, we reported last week that Indian hotel chain Oyo, a SoftBank-backed Indian hospitality startup was planning for an initial public offering (IPO) this week to raise around $1 billion. The day has finally come and we […]

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Research / Space / Technology News

New study warns humanity: Rare solar superstorm could cause ‘internet apocalypse’ and global outages that could last for several months

Daniel Levi Posted On September 30, 2021

In September 1859, the first recorded solar storm, also known as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), hit the United States. Known as the Carrington Event, the solar storm caused widespread telegraph problems. If the same Carrington-scale event were to hit the United […]

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Electric Car / Electric Vehicles / Smart Car / Smart City / Tech Startup News / Tech Startups / Technology News

Lordstown Motors, an EV startup under SEC investigation for an alleged 100,000 in fake preorders, reportedly sold its Ohio plant to Taiwan-based Foxconn

Daniel Levi Posted On September 30, 2021

Foxconn Technology Group (Foxconn), a Taiwan-based company and the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, is nearing a deal to buy the electric truck startup Lordstown Motors’ Ohio plant, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The […]

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Space / Technology News

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is a ‘toxic’ workplace, 21 current and former employees claim in an essay

Daniel Levi Posted On September 30, 2021

On Tuesday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took a jab at Jeff Bezos during an interview, saying, “you can’t sue your way to the moon.” Blue Origin, a space company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, sued NASA in August after the agency […]

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Israeli startup Empathy raises $30M Series A funding to help families deal with the death of loved ones

Daniel Levi Posted On September 30, 2021

In recent years, tech companies have been busy working on a variety of ways to prevent and avoid death — including uploading the human brain to a computer. However, there is still no disruptive technology out there that prevents humans […]

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Cryptocurrency

Elon Musk issues serious warnings about Bitcoin: Crypto isn’t ‘The Second Coming’ and government may slow down bitcoin and crypto advancement

Daniel Levi Posted On September 30, 2021

Crypto investors may be in for a very dark winter if a recent warning from Elon Musk is to be believed. Just two days ago, Elon Musk said the U.S. government should not be in the business of regulating cryptocurrencies as […]

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Apps / Featured / Launch / Social Media / Startup Funding / Tech Startup News / Tech Startups / Technology News

Lapse launches its social disposable camera app that lets you capture the magic of the pre-digital photos; raises a $1.4m seed round

Daniel Levi Posted On September 30, 2021

With billions of people now on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, the shift from public to private networks is undeniable. And that’s why this new tech startup has seen phenomenal success as thousands of users turn to its new camera app. Lapse […]

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Robotics / Tech Startup News / Tech Startups / Technology News

This Chinese robotics startup is selling a knock-off of Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot that costs $75,000 for only $2,500

Daniel Levi Posted On September 30, 2021

Shanzhai is a Chinese term that literally means “mountain fortress” or “mountain village.” But the contemporary use of the term usually encompasses counterfeit, imitation, or pirated products, which can involve the imitation and trademark infringement of brands and companies. You […]

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Israeli tech startup Speedata launches out of stealth with $70M to accelerate big data analytics

Daniel Levi Posted On September 30, 2021

The amount of data created every day is exploding at an exponential rate. According to estimates, an incredible 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day with 90% of the world’s data created in the last two years alone. […]

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Andela becomes the latest African unicorn startup after raising $200M in funding led by Softbank; now valued at a $1.5 billion

Daniel Levi Posted On September 29, 2021

There is a wave of optimism in post-pandemic Africa. The recent coronavirus pandemic and China’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang have led to a momentous shift in people’s attitudes toward China. Investors are beginning to move away from the communist country to business-friendly countries […]

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Cryptocurrency

Elon Musk says U.S. government should NOT regulate cryptocurrencies

Daniel Levi Posted On September 29, 2021

As you may recall in June Mark Cuban called for cryptocurrency regulation in the U.S after he lost money trading a DeFi token TITAN. The token is linked to fintech startup Iron Finance, a group that runs the wider IRON Stablecoin […]

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Featured / Futuristic / Hardware / Software / Tech Startup News / Tech Startups / Technology News

Quantum computer software startup QC Ware raises $25M to bring quantum computing power to the enterprise

Daniel Levi Posted On September 29, 2021

Quantum computing has been around since the early 1980s when physicist Paul Benioff proposed a quantum mechanical model of the Turing machine. Unlike the conventional computers that store information using bits represented by 0s or 1s, quantum computers use quantum […]

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