1 Silicon Valley Startup Raised $23 Million - Week of January 6, 2025
1 Silicon Valley Startup Raised $23 Million - Week of January 6, 2025🤓 Top 10 Companies Have The Most H1B Visas Employees ♨️ Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super 🇭🇰 Big Things to Come for Crypto in Hong Kong 🎧 My Top 3 Podcast Episodes on 2025 Predictions 💰 Hello DeepseeHello, and welcome to 2025! 🇭🇰 I see big things coming for Crypto in Hong Kong — I was interviewed by Coindesk last week on my thoughts on Crypto and Hong Kong. Here are some of my key points:
🎧 My Top 3 Podcast episodes on 2025 predictions — I listened to many podcasts over the holidays and found some fun, but really enjoyed contradicting viewpoints from these three podcasts. A few key takeaways:
♨️ Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super came out of Jensen’s oven - The new NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, fits in the palm of a hand. This device supports 70 trillion operations per second! And it’s tiny. It was funny to watch Jenson pull this out of the oven. Read more on the Nvidia blog. 💰 Hello DeepSeek - The Six Million Dollar Model — It’s amazing to see a Chinese company able to rival OpenAI! DeepSeek V3 comes with 671 billion parameters and was trained in around two months at a cost of $5.58M, and using China-tailored H800 GPUs, plus significantly fewer computing resources than models developed by Meta and OpenAI. Read more on SCMP. 🤓 The Top 10 companies with the most employees working on H1B Visas — The tech industry has long pushed to expand the number H-1B visas granted by the government to bring skilled workers to the U.S. from India, China, Canada, Korea and other countries. The program is capped at 65,000 new visas each year, although an additional 20,000 can be issued for employees with a master’s degree or higher, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Here’s a rundown of the top 10 companies as listed by the number of H-1B petitions for initial employment that U.S. approved in fiscal-year 2024, according to NFAP. I am surprised Google or Microsoft don’t have more H-1B workers.
(Source: CBS News) Last week a total of 1 startup raised $23M in funding, 1 M&As:
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