May 1, 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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Top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, January 4, 2023: ACI, Candy Digital, Coinbase, Fanatics, Gatik, Microsoft, and Salesforce
Nickie Louise Posted On January 4, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, January 4, 2023. Sports platform Fanatics divests 60% stake in NFT company Candy Digital Fanatics, a sports platform founded by Michael Rubin, is divesting its 60% stake in NFT […]


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Microsoft to invest over $10M in autonomous delivery tech startup Gatik, pushing its valuation to $700 million
Nickie Louise Posted On January 4, 2023


Tech giant Microsoft Corp is in advanced talks to invest in San Francisco, California-based startup Gatik, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the discussions. The investment is part of Microsoft’s cloud partnership with autonomous middle-mile logistics startup. According to the report, Microsoft […]


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Rethink Your Tech Talent Strategy: Identifying and Utilizing Undervalued Sources
Nickie Louise Posted On January 4, 2023


Are you tired of scouring tech hubs and major cities for top tech talent, only to come up empty-handed or face fierce competition for the few diamonds in the rough you do find? It’s a tough market out there, and […]


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Top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, January 3, 2023: Apple, ByteDance, FTX, Glip, SpaceX, and Tesla
Nickie Louise Posted On January 3, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Apple’s market cap falls under $2 trillion for the first time since May 2022 After briefly hitting a $3 trillion valuation in January […]


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TikTok-owner ByteDance cuts hundreds of jobs in China to streamline operations amid global slowdown
Nickie Louise Posted On January 3, 2023


ByteDance, the parent company of the popular video app TikTok, is the latest in a series of companies to announce layoffs amid recession anxiety and global slowdown. ByteDance laid off hundreds of staff in December last year, according to a Tuesday report […]


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Game discovery tech startup Glip partners with top web2 studios to expand web3 gaming
Nickie Louise Posted On January 3, 2023


Back in November, India-based startup global web3 game discovery and wallet app Glip landed $2.5 million in funding led by Hashed Emergent with participation from Beenext and existing investor Prime Venture Partners with the goal of bringing millions of gamers to web3. […]


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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is raising $750 million at a $137 billion valuation, from $127B valuation 6 months ago
Nickie Louise Posted On January 3, 2023


Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX is raising $750 million in a new round of funding that values the company at $137 billion, CNBC reported late Monday. The announcement comes just three days after the SpaceX Falcon team achieved a major milestone […]


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Top tech startup news for today, Monday, January 2, 2023: Amazon, Baidu, Gemini, Tesla, Wickr Me, Zomato
Nickie Louise Posted On January 2, 2023


Happy New Year! It’s been a while since we last covered the top startup news of the day. We listened closely to you and overwhelmingly, a majority of you want us to resume the series. What better time to resume […]


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Indian food delivery startup Zomato’s co-founder Gunjan Patidar resigns, the second co-founder to quit in less than 2 months
Nickie Louise Posted On January 2, 2023


The co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Indian food delivery startup Zomato Gunjan Patidar has resigned, the latest in a series of top-level executive exits to leave the 12-year-old startup. Patidar’s exit comes just two months after another co-founder, Mohit Gupta, resigned from […]


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Top Startups of 2022
Nickie Louise Posted On December 30, 2022


2022 is finally drawing to a close. This year is probably one of the worse years we’ve seen in decades. In the last 12 months, we saw the worst inflation in 40 years, economic downturn, global uncertainties, recession, and war. […]


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Wolters Kluwer acquires London-based tech startup Della AI to shore up its Legal & Regulatory software unit
Nickie Louise Posted On December 30, 2022


With just one day left in 2022, Madrid-based Wolters Kluwer is ending the year with a bang. Today, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, the global provider of information services, legal solutions, and consulting for companies, announced it has acquired Della AI, bringing the four-year-old startup […]


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FTX and its founder Bankman-Fried diverted $200 million of customer money to fund investments in 2 tech startup companies
Nickie Louise Posted On December 29, 2022


The collapsed crypto exchange FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried diverted $200 million of customer funds to make two venture capital investments, according to complaints filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The announcement comes just a few […]


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Kraken crypto exchange to shut down its Japan operations amid a weak global crypto market
Nickie Louise Posted On December 28, 2022


Crypto exchange Kraken announced today it will shut down its operations in Japan in January next year as crypto winter takes a toll on the entire crypto industry. The announcement comes just a month after the Kraken laid off 1,100 employees, […]


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Hacker ‘Ryushi’ demands Twitter pay $200,000 ransom to avoid releasing personal data of over 400 million Twitter users
Nickie Louise Posted On December 28, 2022


A hacker by the name ‘Ryushi’ claimed to have the data of 400 million Twitter users and is offering it for sale unless Elon Musk pays a ransom. While security firms are still working to verify the authenticity of the data, Ryushi is […]


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Remembering failed startups of 2022
Nickie Louise Posted On December 26, 2022


We’ve been covering failed startups for five years but this year is unlike any other year in our ten-year history. The past 12 months were unprecedented for tech companies, especially for tech startups. To put things in perspective, the tech industry lost […]


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Indian fintech startup Money View raises $75 million at $900 million valuation
Nickie Louise Posted On December 26, 2022


Money View, a fintech startup that simplifies access to credit for billions of people in India, has raised $75 million in a Series E funding round to grow its credit business, grow its team, and expand its product portfolio with new […]


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Web3 infrastructure startup AAG taps Coinbase Pay as a fiat on-ramping solution for the MetaOne Wallet
Nickie Louise Posted On December 23, 2022


The popularity of bitcoin has led to a rise in the use of fiat “on-ramp,” a service that allows for the exchange of fiat currencies like the US dollar (USD) and Euros for cryptocurrencies. For example, you could exchange USD […]


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LastPass Hacked: LastPass says hackers stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults; “worst breach”
Nickie Louise Posted On December 22, 2022


“Stop using LastPass as your password manager. Move to any other one, and please change any passwords you have on there now,” that was a dire warning from the Director of Engineering at SpotAi. LastPass, the startup that’s supposed to users’ passwords safe, […]


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Binance introduces new features for web3-centric social platform Binance Feed
Nickie Louise Posted On December 22, 2022


Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has endured wild weeks in wake of the collapse of FTX. While the company was doing its best to fend off the onslaught of media reports about its digital asset holdings, Binance was still […]


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Okta source code stolen as a result of GitHub repositories hack. Was remediation possible?
Nickie Louise Posted On December 22, 2022


Back in March, we wrote about single-sign-on cybersecurity firm Okta after the company confirmed that hundreds of its customers were hit by a data breach from the Lapsus$ hacking group. Okta, one of the leading providers of authentication services and Identity […]


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