June 8, 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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Wellness tech startup TaskHuman bags $20M Series B funding to provide real-time digital coaching
Nickie Louise Posted On June 30, 2022


Employees’ wellness is one of the major challenges facing most companies today. More than 90 percent of business leaders say that promoting wellness can affect employee productivity and performance, according to survey results from the nonprofit Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO). Now, […]


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Blockchain startup Klever launches its own Klever Blockchain Mainnet on July 1
Nickie Louise Posted On June 30, 2022


Blockchain network Klever takes the next major step in its ecosystem evolution by launching the native layer 1 blockchain, the KleverChain. As a result, the Klever ecosystem will gain its full independence to bring more products and services to its […]


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Bitcoin price falls below $18,900 yet again as analysts now say bitcoin is on its way to $10,000
Nickie Louise Posted On June 30, 2022


On June 18, bitcoin tumbled below $17,665 as the crypto market and other macro events take a toll on the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. Since then, bitcoin has struggled to move past the $22,000 mark. Fast forward nearly two weeks […]


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Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy doubles down on Bitcoin, invests another $10M even as bitcoin falls by 70% from its all-time high
Nickie Louise Posted On June 29, 2022


The year is 2140. All the 21 million bitcoins have been mined and Michael Saylor owns them all. Due to the Changing World Order, it’s also the century that the Chinese Yuan becomes the world’s global currency. All of Saylor’s bitcoins […]


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Troubled crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital ordered into liquidation by a court in the British Virgin Islands; to sell assets and holdings in crypto startups
Nickie Louise Posted On June 29, 2022


Remember Three Arrows Capital, the crypto hedge fund that led to the demise of crypto lenders BlockFi and Celsius Network? Three Arrows Capital has now plunged into liquidation as the crisis engulfed the global digital assets sector, SkyNews first reported the story. The liquidation makes […]


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Cardano ecosystem builder AdaSwap launches its Public Testnet
Nickie Louise Posted On June 29, 2022


As you may recall back in March, we reported about AdaSwap when the Cardano DeFi ecosystem builder launched the exclusive NFT marketplace to help artists, buyers, and $ASW token holders get more value from their NFTs. Since then, the AdaSwap team has been […]


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Pinterest co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann steps down as top executives leave major tech companies
Nickie Louise Posted On June 29, 2022


What do Twitter, DocuSign, and Facebook’s Meta all have in common? These tech companies have all lost their top executives to greener pastures or were forced out for some unknown reasons. Now, Pinterest co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann just joined the […]


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Tesla lays off hundreds of autopilot employees; closes its San Mateo, California office
Nickie Louise Posted On June 28, 2022


Tesla has laid off hundreds of employees on its Autopilot team and closed its San Mateo office in California, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The sources told Bloomberg that 200 employees were let […]


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Konnecto raises $21M in Series A for the world’s first prescriptive path-to-purchase optimization platform
Nickie Louise Posted On June 28, 2022


Konnecto, the creator of the world’s first prescriptive path-to-purchase optimization platform, has closed $21 million in Series A funding to fuel its team expansion and continued investment in innovation to capitalize on immense demand for its solution from enterprises globally. The round was led […]


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Alkemi and Ledger join forces to bring DeFi lending to over 1.5 million Ledger Live users
Nickie Louise Posted On June 28, 2022


In just a span of four years, the decentralized finance (DeFi) space has grown into one of the leading ecosystems in the digital currency space as millions of users engage in lending and borrowing without having to go through a centralized intermediary like […]


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London’s green tech startup Circulor raises $25M to tackle corporate greenwashing and provide sustainable supply chain traceability using blockchain and AI
Nickie Louise Posted On June 28, 2022


Last month, we wrote a piece about corporate greenwashing and how net-zero is next-level greenwashing without supply chain emissions. For many years, governments and organizations around the world promised to do their fair share to reduce Co2 emissions destroying our planet. […]


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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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