January 22, 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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Cake DeFi partners with Razer Silver to provide gamers access to crypto assets
Nickie Louise Posted On July 21, 2022


The billion-dollar crypto fintech startup Cake DeFi has teamed up with Razer Silver to provide gamers access to crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and DeFiChain, the company announced today. Razer Silver is a loyalty rewards program for gamers, backed […]


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Human protocol unveils a new decentralized routing protocol to coordinate distributed job markets
Nickie Louise Posted On July 20, 2022


The HUMAN Protocol team has been busy over the past few months. The decentralized infrastructure project made a splash late last year when it launched its HUMAN App with over 200,000 users. Then in May, HUMAN Protocol awarded a grant to VeritaTrust to […]


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Web3 tech startup Socialstack launches a $350K grant fund to bring organizations and creators into Web3 through social tokens to advance social and environmental action
Nickie Louise Posted On July 20, 2022


Over the years, social tokens have emerged as a community engagement tool to advance common global causes. Now, one web3 tech startup is supporting purpose-driven organizations & creators with the first social token grant fund to fuel the next generation […]


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Fintech startup Bluejay Finance raises $2.9M to build a decentralized multi-currency stablecoin protocol for the Asian market
Nickie Louise Posted On July 20, 2022


While Southeast Asia’s economy has come a long way over the last decade, more than six out of ten Southeast Asians still remain underbanked or unbanked today. In addition, more than 1 billion people within the region still have no access […]


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Cybercriminals defrauded investors of more than $42 million using fake cryptocurrency apps, The FBI says
Nickie Louise Posted On July 20, 2022


Cybercriminals have defrauded US investors of millions of dollars using fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement. On Monday, the FBI warned financial institutions and investors about fraudulent cryptocurrency applications that have scammed 244 victims […]


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Fintech startup FairPlay lands $10M in Series A funding to reduce bias in lending to people of color
Nickie Louise Posted On July 19, 2022


In 2020, Black mortgage applicants were approved at a rate of less than 80% of White applicants. These approval decisions were made by algorithms. Unfortunately, this is not new. It has been going on for decades. Another report by an online real estate […]


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Meta Hollywood selected SOMA.finance to manage fan-first token offerings
Nickie Louise Posted On July 19, 2022


Meta Hollywood, the largest virtual community for movie lovers, studios, and creators, launched by Animoca Brands in partnership with the Planet Hollywood Group (“Planet Hollywood”),  today announced it has selected SOMA.finance as the issuing partner for its upcoming ecosystem of digital […]


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Crypto.com scores approval from Italy finance regulators, the Organismo Agenti e Mediatori (OAM)
Nickie Louise Posted On July 19, 2022


The ongoing turmoil in the crypto market has done little to stop the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com from making inroads into new markets. Today, Crypto.com announced today that it has received registration and regulatory approval from the Organismo Agenti e Mediatori […]


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Health talent startup Humanity Health lands $6 million to address barriers facing underrepresented leaders in healthcare and life sciences
Nickie Louise Posted On July 18, 2022


People of color represent less than 15% of executives in the largest US-based healthcare companies even though they represent 40% of the population. Now one startup is on a mission to change this trend by addressing the stubborn barriers to […]


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Snapchat finally rolls out web version of its popular photo messaging app more than a decade after launch
Nickie Louise Posted On July 18, 2022


Snapchat is finally coming to the web after more than ten years since the company debuted the mobile app. Snap, the parent of the popular photo and messaging app, said Monday that it’s rolling out “Snapchat for Web” to allow users to […]


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Crypto exchange Bybit and Actant team up to offer traders world-class trading tools
Nickie Louise Posted On July 18, 2022


Crypto Exchange Bybit has teamed up with electronic trading pioneer Actant to give traders some extra edge. The partnership will enable professional traders to take advantage of best-in-class trading tools. As a result of the agreement, Bybit, which has one of the largest […]


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Richard Branson backs a $25M funding in Lightyear, a stock trading startup that aims to become Europe’s answer to Robinhood
Nickie Louise Posted On July 15, 2022


You all probably remember Robinhood, the controversial commission-free stock trading app that blocked Reddit Army from trading Gamestop and AMC stocks back in April 2021. Robinhood also restricted thousands of retail investors from trading Dogecoin. The notorious fintech startup has since lost over 75% […]


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The future of TikTok growth: Total TikTok users predicted to reach 2.6 billion by 2025, new study shows
Nickie Louise Posted On July 15, 2022


In less than five years, TikTok, the Chinese viral video-sharing app that started out as a joke, has emerged to become the most popular app in the world. In December 2021, TikTok dethroned Google to become the most visited website in the […]


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World’s largest NFT marketplace OpenSea to lay off 20% of its workforce as NFT sales plunged to $700M from $5 billion in Jan.
Nickie Louise Posted On July 14, 2022


OpenSea, the world’s largest non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace announced Thursday it is cutting about 20% of its workforce to reduce costs amid a prolonged slump in crypto-asset markets. The announcement comes just two months after the NFT marketplace was hit by a phishing […]


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Austria-based tech startup Storyblok launches a €1.5M fund to take headless technology mainstream
Nickie Louise Posted On July 14, 2022


Creating and delivering content to end-users is no longer just a question of implementing responsive design. Companies want their content to be easily distributed over different communication channels: websites, web and mobile applications, and connected objects. Traditional content management systems […]


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Longtime Tesla autopilot and AI leader Andrej Karpathy resigns from the company
Nickie Louise Posted On July 14, 2022


It’s not been a good week for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. His week started out with a lawsuit from Twitter asking the billionaire to consummate the $44 billion merger agreement. Then yesterday, longtime Tesla Autopilot Executive Andrej Karpathy announced on […]


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Blockchain fintech startup Millicent successfully carries out world’s first test of a general purpose full-reserve digital currency
Nickie Louise Posted On July 14, 2022


As you may recall back in February, we wrote about Millicent after the distributed ledger fintech startup co-funded by the UK government’s R&D department received funding grants to build the next generation of digital finance. The award from the UK Research and Innovation […]


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Integrated Graphene to invest $9.5M to scale up the world’s first revolutionary 3D graphene foam
Nickie Louise Posted On July 13, 2022


Graphene is the thinnest material known to man. At just one atom thick, graphene is incredibly strong, about 200 times stronger than steel. Graphene has the potential to change the world, with a lot of promise in almost any industry. Its […]


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Spotify buys Wordle-inspired music recognition trivia gaming startup Heardle
Nickie Louise Posted On July 13, 2022


Music streaming giant Spotify announced on Tuesday it’s buying Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music recognition trivia game played by millions of users every day. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. The acquisition is part of Spotify’s effort to diversify its revenue streams […]


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US inflation explodes to 9.1% in June even as U.S. tech layoffs top 20,000
Nickie Louise Posted On July 13, 2022


A few minutes ago, the US Labor Department (DOL) released devastating inflation numbers for the month of June. The numbers are not looking good. In fact, it’s getting worse. According to the report, US inflation jumps by 0.5 percent from May to […]


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