January 21, 2026
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Nickie Louise

Nickie is a writer, editor, and co-founder of TechStartups.com based in the Washington Metropolitan Area. She covers early-stage startups, AI, emerging technologies, cryptocurrencies, gaming, and gadgets. When she’s not writing about innovation, Nickie enjoys crafts, spending time with her family and children, hiking, and exploring God’s majestic creation.


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FoodTech startup Forsea bags $5.2M to cultivate cell-based seafood alternatives to endangered fish species
Nickie Louise Posted On October 26, 2022


The global demand for seafood has led to overfishing that threatens the world’s oceans and drives species like eels to extinction. As the global demand for seafood continues to rise, it will exacerbate the intensive aquaculture that is already disrupting oceanic […]


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Crypto winter is hurting Google’s ad business as companies pull back on search spending
Nickie Louise Posted On October 26, 2022


Alphabet’s Google reported a lackluster result on Tuesday during its third-quarter earnings call. It’s now clear that not even Google is immune from the ongoing Crypto winter. The tech giant misses on earnings as revenue growth dipped to 6%. The tech behemoth saw […]


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Dubai-based crypto exchange BitOasis inks a deal with Mastercard to let users make payments with crypto-linked credit cards
Nickie Louise Posted On October 25, 2022


BitOasis, a Middle East-focused cryptocurrency exchange startup, has struck a deal with Mastercard to launch payment credit cards linked to cryptocurrencies, the two companies said in a joint statement Tuesday. The Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based BitOasis said the cards will enable its […]


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Blockchain hackers stole over $2.5 billion in the first three quarters of 2022 despite slowdown in crypto market
Nickie Louise Posted On October 25, 2022


Over the past decade, hackers and scammers have stolen over $12 billion in crypto assets. Unfortunately, the trend has accelerated rapidly in 2022. In the first nine months of this year, companies and investors have lost billions to cyber criminals […]


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Seqera Labs lands €22M in Series A funding for its data orchestration and workflow platform for life sciences
Nickie Louise Posted On October 25, 2022


Seqera Labs, a provider of open-source data orchestration and workflow software for life sciences, has raised €22 million in Series A funding led by Addition, with follow-on funding from Talis Capital, Speedinvest, BoxOne Ventures, and Amino Collective. The Barcelona-based Seqera Labs will use […]


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WhatsApp is partially back online after global outage hits millions of users
Nickie Louise Posted On October 25, 2022


Meta’s messaging app WhatsApp is slowly coming back online after a global outage hits millions of users. At around 0900 GMT, WhatsApp reported the issue has been fixed after millions of users reported problems earlier on Tuesday. Outage monitoring site Downdetector […]


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CryptoQuant becomes the first on-chain data provider for CME Group
Nickie Louise Posted On October 25, 2022


CryptoQuant, an on-chain data platform, has become the official provider of on-chain data for CME Group’s Datamine. This on-demand platform allows traditional financial institutions to access detailed historical data. Being the first and only on-chain data provider of CME Datamine […]


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Fintech Holdings, a fintech startup founded by former Tinkoff execs, raises $16M to focus on Southeast Asia market
Nickie Louise Posted On October 24, 2022


On February 24, Russia launched a full-scale military attack on Ukraine. Immediately after the invasion, the United States and Europe imposed hefty sanctions on Russia. The sanctions forced thousands of Russian banks and financial institutions to stop doing business with the […]


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EV tech startup VinFast gets a $135 million climate financing package led by ADB to support electric mobility in Vietnam
Nickie Louise Posted On October 24, 2022


While hundreds of tech companies were laying off thousands of their staff, Vietnam’s EV tech startup VinFast announced in August it was hiring 8,000 new employees to further ramp up production and meet the increasing demands for its electric cars. Now, VinFast has […]


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MarketAcross Is Named The Official Global Media Partner Of AIBC Europe Malta 2022
Nickie Louise Posted On October 24, 2022


A month after MarketAcross was named the official global media partner of the World Crypto Conference to be held in January 2023 in Zurich, Switzerland, the leading global blockchain PR and Marketing firm has just inked another partnership with AIBC in a Europe, […]


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How this Web3 startup plans to simplify fine art investing with NFTs
Nickie Louise Posted On October 24, 2022


As blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) continue to grow in popularity, we are witnessing a dramatic transformation in the art world. This is particularly evident when it comes to digital art, as artists now have a whole new way […]


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Four U.S. state regulators order metaverse casino startup Slotie to stop the sale of fraudulent NFTs
Nickie Louise Posted On October 21, 2022


The metaverse became the latest buzzword late last following the announcement that Facebook has changed its corporate to Meta to reflect its focus on the metaverse, a term originally coined by Neal Stephenson in the dystopian novel “Snow Crash” three decades ago. Since […]


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Grocery delivery startup Instacart postpones its plans to go public this year as tech IPO market cracks open
Nickie Louise Posted On October 21, 2022


The tech IPO market is facing its worst drought in nearly 20 years amid global economic uncertainty, wars, and looming recession in Europe and the United States. So far this year, only 14 tech companies have floated their shares on stock exchanges […]


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Kudos, a fintech startup founded by ex-Google and PayPal engineers, raises $7M to simplify online checkout and maximize rewards for consumers
Nickie Louise Posted On October 20, 2022


The global customer loyalty management market is currently valued at more than $5.57 billion and it is projected to surpass $24 billion by the end of 2028. One of the biggest players is Honey, a shopping and rewards startup PayPal acquired […]


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Europe’s digital bank startup N26 launches crypto trading service with new Bitpanda integration
Nickie Louise Posted On October 20, 2022


Fortunes, they say, are made during recessions. This is probably the case for Europe’s $9 billion digital bank N26. Just last week we wrote about the German challenger bank N26 after its reported losses climbed 14% to €172.4 million. But the […]


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Amazon faces a $1 bln lawsuit in the UK for abusing its market dominance and ‘favoring its own products’
Nickie Louise Posted On October 20, 2022


Late last year, retail giant Amazon was fined a record $1.3 billion by Italy’s antitrust watchdog for its abuse of market dominance, as EU antitrust regulators rein in a handful of US big tech companies abusing their monopolies. The fine […]


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This is Elon Musk in 1995 fixing his old BMW because he didn’t have money to pay for repairs; now he can afford to buy the entire BMW Group with billions left to spare
Nickie Louise Posted On October 20, 2022


Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the richest man in the world with a net worth of over $200 billion, surpassing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who now has a net worth of $137 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. However, […]


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SnapCommerce rebrands to Super, expands to fintech with the launch of SuperCash cashback card
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


SnapCommerce, an e-commerce platform that personalizes the mobile shopping experience for users, has rebranded to Super as the six-year-old Silicon Valley startup expands its offering to include fintech. SnapCommerce also renamed its additional offerings in alignment with the new core brand, living […]


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Malaysian payments tech startup Super Apps to go public in the US via a $1.1 billion SPAC deal
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


Super Apps Holdings announced it will go public in the United States through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) with  Technology & Telecommunication Acquisition Corporation in a deal that values the Malaysian payments technology firm at $1.1 billion, the […]


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London-based cybersecurity startup OutThink raises $10 million to tackle human errors behind data breaches
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


Every year, businesses and organizations around the world spend enormous amounts of money on cybersecurity and data protection, but still lose billions of dollars to data breaches. A recent IBM study conducted by the Ponemon Institute found that data breaches cost […]


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