March 18, 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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MaC Venture Capital, a majority Black-owned VC firm, raises $203M Fund II to invest in tech startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors
Nickie Louise Posted On June 27, 2022


Venture capital funding in technology startups has grown in recent years. But investments in minority and female-led startups still are still lagging behind. The disparity in funding to minority startups is at an all-time high. In the last five years, […]


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Smart exchange ecosystem Unizen secures a $200M investment commitment from Global Emerging Markets Global (GEM) to boost innovation in CeDeFi
Nickie Louise Posted On June 27, 2022


Unizen, a smart exchange aggregator, has today announced a $200M commitment funding from Global Emerging Markets Global (GEM) to boost innovation on its platform and expand its features. Additionally, the funding commitment enables new product development and global adoption of […]


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Kristo Käärmann, co-founder and CEO of fintech startup Wise, is now under investigation by FCA over tax breach
Nickie Louise Posted On June 27, 2022


Wise (formally TransferWise) is one of the UK’s largest fintech companies with a valuation of $4.8 billion. We covered the unicorn fintech startup back in September 2021 after its Billionaire co-founder and CEO Kristo Kaarmann was fined nearly $500,000 for deliberately not paying […]


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Crypto exchange FTX in talks to acquire stake in crypto lender BlockFi as crisis with beleaguered startup deepens
Nickie Louise Posted On June 27, 2022


BlockFi found itself in deep financial trouble following reports of multiple complaints that customers could not withdraw their funds due to the company’s exposure to Three Arrows Capital. Last week. the crypto lender received $250 million credit line from crypto exchange FTX as […]


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Nearly $100 million worth of crypto stolen in another major hack as hackers exploited Harmony’s Horizon blockchain bridge
Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2022


Crypto tech startup Harmony announced Thursday that hackers have stolen $100 million worth of crypto from its Horizon blockchain bridge. The hack is the latest in a series of major heists in the world of decentralized finance (DeFI). The announcement comes just three […]


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Video game startups expected to register further success in 2022 and beyond
Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2022


As well as accessing social media tools like Twitter and utilizing services such as Netflix, gaming is a favored entertainment option in the modern world. In fact, gaming has always been a go-to product for many of us, except the […]


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This is what happens when you wring a wet towel in zero-gravity space: Watch
Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2022


Have you ever wondered what happens when you wring out a wet towel in a zero-gravity? Thanks to an experiment by high school students from Fall River, Nova Scotia, we now know. The experiment was designed by high school students from Nova […]


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Google says Apple and Android phones were hacked by Italian spyware
Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2022


Google announced on Thursday that Apple and Android smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan were hacked by an Italian company’s hacking tools. According to the report, the tech giant said that Milan-based RCS Lab, whose website claims European law enforcement agencies as clients, […]


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London-based fintech startup SumUp raises $620 million at $8.4 billion valuation
Nickie Louise Posted On June 23, 2022


SumUp, a London-based fintech startup with over 4 million small businesses worldwide, has raised $620 million (€590 million) in funding. The financing, which is a combination of debt and equity, pushes the company’s valuation to $8.4 billion (€8 billion), a big drop […]


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Fintech startup Vergo bags $4.1M in Seed funding to provide banking for architects, designers, and builders
Nickie Louise Posted On June 22, 2022


The U.S. construction sector was valued at around $1.36 trillion as of the end of 2020 and was expected to decline further in the next year, according to data from Statista. If you add the interior design industry, the combined […]


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Crypto.com scores approval from Singapore finance regulators
Nickie Louise Posted On June 22, 2022


The ongoing turmoil in the crypto market has done little to stop the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com from making great strides. Today, Crypto.com announced it has received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for its Major Payment Institution […]


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Germany is going back to burning coal after spending close to a trillion on renewable energy
Nickie Louise Posted On June 22, 2022


Coal is back from the dead in Germany as the country grapples with the fallout of economic sanctions it imposed on Russia. According to reports from major media outlets, Germany is now “planning to fire up coal plants as Russia throttles […]


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Crypto startup FalconX raises $150M to grow its digital asset trading platform; now valued at $8 billion
Nickie Louise Posted On June 22, 2022


With fears of uncertainty sweeping across the crypto market, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for crypto startups to raise new funds. Struggling startups have turned to capital preservation measures including layoffs to keep their business afloat. However, the unfavorable market environment […]


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Twitter’s board unanimously approves Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover deal
Nickie Louise Posted On June 21, 2022


Elon Musk is a step closer to becoming the new owner of Twitter after the company’s board of directors unanimously approved Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover deal, an SEC filing document shows. According to a regulatory filing with the SEC […]


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Tesla to lay off 3.5% of the total workforce instead of the 10% as former employees sued the company
Nickie Louise Posted On June 21, 2022


Early this month, we wrote about Tesla after CEO Elon Musk said the company planned to lay off 10% of Tesla’s total workforce due to a “super bad feeling” he has about the economy. Now Musk has clarified that layoffs will affect […]


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Web2 gaming platform giant BUFF teams up with Web3 gaming pioneer MonkeyLeague to merge Web2 and Web3
Nickie Louise Posted On June 21, 2022


We covered MonkeyLeague early this month after the Web3 gaming startup scored a coup in its quest to develop the world’s first esports-focused metaverse with the hiring of former first employee and CPO of NASDAQ-traded PlaytikaRaz Friedman as its Chief Product […]


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China’s largest messaging app WeChat to ban accounts engaging in Bitcoin, crypto, and NFTs
Nickie Louise Posted On June 21, 2022


WeChat, China’s most popular messaging app with over 1.1 billion daily users, announced on Monday that it will ban accounts that provide services or content related to bitcoin or cryptocurrency. The Chinese social network said it has changed its policy and will […]


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How to sustainably manage and reduce waste from electric and electronic equipment (WEEE)
Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2022


Sustainability is at the center of public discussion. In 2022, world leaders gathered at COP26, deciding that greenhouse gas emissions need to see a reduction of 45%  by 2030, and net zero will be achieved by 2050. To achieve these […]


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Facebook’s Meta is launching avatar fashion store to sell designer virtual clothes for real money
Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2022


After Facebook announced it was changing its name to Meta in October 2021, the metaverse took the internet by storm, dominating tech headlines. No day goes by without a story about the metaverse. The talk about the metaverse is slowly making its […]


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Crypto exchange Bybit launches grid trading bot
Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2022


We covered Bybit last month after Oracle Red Bull Racing unveiled the 2022 NFT collection at the Monaco Grand on Bybit’s NFT Marketplace. Since then, the Bybit team has been busy working behind the scene on another important project. Today, Bybit announced […]


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