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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Mental HealthTech startup BetterUp raises $300 million at near $5 billion valuation

Daniel Levi Posted On October 8, 2021

BetterUp made headlines back in March after the Silicon Valley-based mental health startup hired Prince Harry as its Chief Impact Officer. In his new role, The Duke of Sussex is expected to have input into product strategy decisions and charitable contributions, and advocate publicly […]

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Technology News

Chinese delivery giant Meituan fined $533 million in China’s tech crackdown. “We accept the penalty with sincerity,” Meituan says

Daniel Levi Posted On October 8, 2021

As you may recall back in May, Chinese food delivery giant Meituan lost $38.96 billion of its value after the Chinese government’s antitrust crackdown wiped off over $250 billion from Chinese tech stocks. It all started on April 26 when China’s […]

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Microsoft acquires productivity software startup Ally.io to revolutionize how organizations use technology

Daniel Levi Posted On October 8, 2021

Microsoft announced Thursday it has acquired Ally.io, a Washington-based tech startup that provides software to help organizations keep track of their progress on key goals. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. So far this year Microsoft has […]

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Startup Funding

Paris-based tech startup Elevo raises $6.9M to help companies go beyond the annual performance appraisal interview and transform the employee experience

Daniel Levi Posted On October 7, 2021

Most employees hate the annual performance evaluations. 66% of the employees were strongly dissatisfied with the performance evaluations they received in their organizations, according to a piece published in Harvard Business Review, citing a survey of Fortune 1,000 companies done by the […]

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From bootstrapping to IPO: Estonia tech startup TextMagic to go public on Nasdaq First North Tallinn

Daniel Levi Posted On October 7, 2021

Text messaging service provider TextMagic, a UK tech startup that has never raised external capital, plans to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares this year. The shares will trade on First North Tallinn, an alternative market within […]

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Best cities for remote workers 2021: Here are the top 100 destinations for remote workers

Daniel Levi Posted On October 7, 2021

If there is one lesson we learned from this pandemic, it is that remote work is critical to the existence of any business. The pandemic has now accelerated the future of remote work. Before the pandemic began in February 2020, […]

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Amazon’s Twitch hacked: Hackers expose source code and payouts of creators and top 100 highest-paid Twitch streamers

Daniel Levi Posted On October 6, 2021

Another day, another hacking news. This time it’s Amazon’s video streaming service Twitch that was hacked Wednesday in a cyber breach that exposed details on payments to gamers, content creators, future product plans, and an unreleased product from Amazon Game Studios. The anonymous […]

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Israeli semiconductor startup NeuroBlade raises $83 million to develop AI chip for data centers and end-devices

Daniel Levi Posted On October 6, 2021

There’s a lot of buzz about edge computing in recent years. Edge computing is a distributed computing framework that brings enterprise applications closer to data sources such as IoT devices or local edge servers. But one aspect of edge computing that receives […]

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New York tech startup Aquant lands $70 million Series C funding to revolutionize the service industry using AI

Daniel Levi Posted On October 6, 2021

New York tech startups have seen a jump in funding activity since the beginning of the year. In 2020 alone, venture-capital firms pumped $5.8 billion into New York City enterprise-technology startups, with startups developing cybersecurity, robotics artificial intelligence, and machine […]

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Health / HealthTech

Bill Gates talked about using vaccines to control population growth, here is the unedited 2010 TED Talk video plus the transcript

Daniel Levi Posted On October 6, 2021

In August 2020, we wrote about Bill Gates after an unearthed video showed him talking about using new vaccines for population control. However, it didn’t take long before the fact-checkers called the video misinformation and fake news. Fast forward a little […]

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Technology News

Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos to reclaim the title of the world’s richest person; the third person ever to amass a fortune worth $200 billion

Daniel Levi Posted On October 5, 2021

On January 7, Elon Musk became the world’s richest person with a net worth of more than $185 billion, surpassing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But it didn’t take long Bezos reclaimed his title as the world’s richest person after he leapfrogged […]

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Amazon Air founder launches Pandion to liberate retailers from UPS and FedEx; raises $30M in funding

Daniel Levi Posted On October 5, 2021

Over the years, the growing complexities of first and last-mile delivery often shift the focus away from middle-mile delivery operations. As the name implies, middle mile delivery or middle mile logistics is the shipment of goods and parcels from a […]

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Mark Cuban-backed app Fireside launches to help podcasters, musicians, and creators host interactive shows with live audience

Daniel Levi Posted On October 5, 2021

The growing popularity of cryptocurrencies and NFTs has led to the creation of the new creator economy. In 2021 alone, the creator economy has seen a record $1.3B in funding, according to CB Insights. During the same time, we’ve also seen […]

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Hardware / Space / Technology News

Taiwan says it’s ‘preparing for war’ with China as a record 52 Chinese warplanes breached its air defense zone. “We will fight to the end,” Taiwan’s Foreign Minister warns

Daniel Levi Posted On October 4, 2021

In late August, China warned Taiwan that the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan is a lesson that the US “won’t help” Taiwan if war breaks out between the two nations. The Chinese’s state-run Global Times newspaper warned Taiwan that the US […]

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Health / HealthTech / Medical News

Double vaccinated and no underlying health conditions Emmy winner died of Covid at 53

Daniel Levi Posted On October 4, 2021

Emmy winner and hair and makeup artist Marc Pilcher died of COVID-19 on Sunday at the age of 53. Pilcher was double vaccinated and had no underlying health conditions, according to a report from New York Post, citing his agency […]

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

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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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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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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