Nelli_Avetisyan

#StopDoubleStandards
#NoMoreWar

[Lindsey Snell @LindseySnell]

Azerbaijan, the EU's trusted partner and alternative to energy from evil Russia, has pushed one of its hundreds of political prisoners to the brink of suicide

[Lindsey Snell @LindseySnell]

Looking at depraved people on pro-Jolani telegram channels celebrating the suicide bombing of a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus today serves as a reminder that Jolani's former al-Qaeda affiliate often used suicide bombers in attacks that killed civilians.

[NVIDIA Newsroom @nvidianewsroom]

NVIDIA is collaborating with PM @NikolPashinyan of Armenia and @FirebirdCloudAI to deploy thousands of Blackwell GPUs — advancing AI computing across the Caucasus region.

This partnership will unlock new opportunities for innovation and economic growth for the country.

Learn more: https://t.co/U3kNxkEN62

[Nara @nmatini]

If you kill 🇺🇦 Ukrainians, 🇩🇪 we will sanction you.

If you kill 🇦🇲 Armenians, 🇩🇪 we will award you with 10-year gas deal.

Expect hypocrisy from @GermanyDiplo @bundeskanzler @AussenMinDE for the next 10 years.

#GermanValues @SEFEGmbH

[Zartonk Media @ZartonkMedia]

BREAKING: Armenian-Founded Gecko Robotics Reaches Historic Unicorn Status With $1.25 Billion Valuation 🇦🇲
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Gecko Robotics, co-founded and led by Armenian-American entrepreneur Jake Loosararian, has officially reached unicorn status. The Pittsburgh-based company just raised $125 million in a Series D funding round, more than doubling its previous valuation to $1.25 billion, reports Zartonk Media citing CNBC. Gecko Robotics announced the round on Thursday, June 12, 2025.

The company’s technology has been increasingly utilized in the defense, energy, and manufacturing sectors—industries where insights on the health of costly aircraft, ships, pipelines, and plants are invaluable.

The new funding means the company, founded in 2013 by Loosararian and co-founder Troy Demmer out of their college dorm room, continues its upward trajectory. Demmer serves as the company’s Chief Operating Officer and has helped scale Gecko’s operations as it continues to expand across industries and geographies. The company’s previous round, a $173 million Series C in December 2023, valued it at $633 million.

The round was led by Cox Enterprises, with continued backing from existing investors including USIT, XN, Founders Fund, and Y Combinator. To date, the company has now raised $347 million.

Gecko Robotics builds AI-powered robots that help organizations—including the U.S. military—inspect and monitor critical infrastructure. Its robots inspect and monitor critical infrastructure—ranging from military aircraft and ships to power plants and gas facilities. The company’s robots are capable of climbing, crawling, flying, and swimming to assess the health of high-value assets and access difficult locations. The data they collect is analyzed through Gecko’s proprietary operating platform, Cantilever, which delivers insights to optimize performance, extend lifespan, and improve safety.

A two-time CNBC Disruptor 50 company, Gecko ranked No. 30 on the 2025 list. Its customers span defense, energy, and manufacturing sectors. The company works across a variety of physical assets and industries, including:
• L3Harris Technologies and the U.S. Navy, to inspect and maintain critical military aircraft and ships
• NAES, the largest independent power operator in the U.S., to modernize and optimize energy plant efficiency
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), to inspect gas infrastructure, tanks, and facilities

“Gecko was built out of my college dorm room, to what it is today — the company ensuring the safety of public infrastructure, the optimization of energy and manufacturing facilities, and the modernization of militaries to deter global conflict,” Loosararian said in a statement.

Gecko’s AI-driven Cantilever platform has reportedly enabled power plants to operate up to 5% more efficiently and has been used to modernize C-130 military aircraft. The company stated that it will use the additional capital to accelerate growth and deepen its presence in defense, energy, and manufacturing.

Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and co-founder and executive chairman of defense tech company Anduril, CNBC’s 2025 No. 1 Disruptor, praised Gecko: “While much of the tech industry is focused on consumer AI applications, Gecko Robotics is using AI to address an important, underappreciated challenge – the building and maintenance of critical infrastructure. Gecko’s business continues to grow as organizations across a wide variety of sectors realize this work is more safely and thoroughly performed by sensors and robots than humans.”

Gecko was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, which helped the company scale its platform while still early and bootstrapped.

Gecko’s mission is bold: to make the world safer with robots.

With Armenian roots and global ambition, this is a win for innovation and representation.

[Tatevik Hayrapetyan @TatevikHayrape1]

It was my pleasure to serve as a panelist at the 2025 APRI Forum. I primarily spoke about the risks and dangers associated with the institutionalization of the "Western Azerbaijan" expansionist concept by the Azerbaijani leadership.

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

On Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, we honor the 1.5 million Armenians senselessly killed in a horrific genocide 110 years ago.

I had the solemn honor of visiting the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in 2022 to pay respects to the victims of this atrocity. It is essential that we continue to shine a bright light on this dark chapter of history.

In 2019, the Democratic House formally recognized the Armenian Genocide—an historic and long-overdue acknowledgment of truth and a lasting commitment to human rights.

[Sossi Tatikyan @STatikyan]

My favorite contemporary Armenian sportsman, multiple champion of Europe.

[Nelli_Avetisyan @avetis_nelli]

The aggressor can't act another way!!! #alive wants war but no-one approve that.

[MoD of Armenia 🇦🇲 @armenia_mod]

📢 🇦🇲🇦🇿 Another instance of #disinformation from MoD of #Azerbaijan

1/4: The claim that on March 20, btwn 12:30 p.m. & 3:15 p.m., units of the #Armenian Armed Forces fired on 🇦🇿 positions in the eastern & southeastern sectors of the border, does not correspond to reality.

[MoD of Armenia 🇦🇲 @armenia_mod]

📢 🇦🇲🇦🇿 The Azerbaijani MoD has once again spread #disinformation.

1/4: The claim that on March 19 at around 2:15 p.m., units of the #Armenian Armed Forces fired on #Azerbaijani combat positions in the eastern section of the border does not correspond to reality.

[Nara @nmatini]

Azerbaijan is escalating its #disinformation campaign. For several days, AZE falsely claims Armenia has opened fire on their positions. Absolutely FALSE! @EUmARMENIA observers also noted that it had been quiet along the border. #FakeAzeriPeace

[Armenian Assembly @ARAMAC_DC]

📰@CNN: Any Armenia-Azerbaijan treaty must include prisoner release, says Moderna co-founder @NoubarAfeyan

Watch: https://t.co/1SECw32xAA

[Tatevik Hayrapetyan @TatevikHayrape1]

Aliyev becomes more aggressive and the Azerbaijan’s MoD continues the disinformation campaign after the call of @MikeWaltz47 , potentially ignoring Trump's administration. What’s the reasoning behind? To show that he doesn’t care what the US says?

[Nelli_Avetisyan @avetis_nelli]

@HenrikhMkh Good morning winner, wish one day to say Good Morning Champion 🏆 🇦🇲🖤💙

[David Ignatius @IgnatiusPost]

Listen to Dr. Tom Catena, a courageous Catholic relief doctor in South Sudan, explain why the Azerbaijani charges against his friend @RubenVardanyan_ are “completely false and absurd.”

[Noubar Afeyan @NoubarAfeyan]

I’ll be on @CNN with @paulanewtonCNN at 1:30 Eastern to discuss the urgent need to free @RubenVardanyan_ , and the other Christian Armenian prisoners being held by #Azerbaijan, following the clear direction form @MikeWaltz47 that they must be freed before or with the peace treaty.

[MoD of Armenia 🇦🇲 @armenia_mod]

🇦🇲🇦🇿 1/3: The MoD of Azerbaijan has once again disseminated #disinformation.

The statement by the MoD of #Azerbaijan, claiming that on March 17, btwn 5:25 p.m. & 9:45 p.m., #Armenian AF units fired on🇦🇿positions in the E. & SE. border sectors, does not correspond to reality.

[LIBERTAS #FreeArmenianHostages @FreeArmenianPOW]

"#Armenia is obligated to take all necessary measures to secure the possibility of consular visits to Armenian prisoners in #Azerbaijan" - Siranush Sahakyan, representative of Armenian prisoners' interests at the ECHR & head of CICL
#FreeArmenianHostages
https://t.co/lQRFjMc2Yc

[Jared Genser @JaredGenser]

The opinion from the @UN Working Group on #Arbitrary #Detention about @RubenVardanyan_’s case is more then four months old & has long been superseded by later events. Specifically, it occurred before the transfer of his case to the #Baku Military Court & egregious due process abuses there. The WG has long said military courts aren’t competent to try civilians and military judges & prosecutors aren’t independent or impartial. It remains clear Ruben is being held illegally and in violation of international law. Indeed, just last week @UNHumanRights #High #Commissioner @volker_turk said “[a]ll those arbitrarily detained in Azerbaijan, including ethnic Armenians, must be released immediately.” https://t.co/G1JHH4VLIB

[MoD of Armenia 🇦🇲 @armenia_mod]

🇦🇲🇦🇿The Azerbaijani MoD has once again spread #disinformation.

The claim that #Armenian AF fired on #Azerbaijani positions on March 16 at 6:35 p.m. is false.

The PM’s Office of 🇦🇲has proposed a joint 🇦🇲🇦🇿mechanism to investigate ceasefire violations,but Aze has yet to respond.