March 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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Meet NuCalm, The world’s first clinically proven neuroscience technology that relieves chronic stress at the midbrain level, and helps you make better decisions
Nickie Louise Posted On March 4, 2022


Americans are more stressed than they were in the 90s. New research published in February examined the impact of stress on people who are middle age. The new paper, which was published in the journal American Psychologist, Penn State researchers found a stark increase […]


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Twitter accused of double standard for banning Trump but not sitting US Senator who calls for Russian President Putin to be assassinated
Nickie Louise Posted On March 4, 2022


As the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine reaches a new level, a sitting U.S. Senator has called on the Russian people to assassinate their own President. In a tweet Thursday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham said that Russian President Vladimir Putin […]


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Space  / Startup Spotlight  / Technology News
Elon Musk sends a serious warning to the people of Ukraine
Nickie Louise Posted On March 4, 2022


Like billions of people around the world, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is closing monitoring the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. As you may recall, early this week Musk sent hundreds of Starlink terminals to Ukraine, ten hours after the […]


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Investment in female-founded tech startups breaks record in 2022, already surpassed total funding for both 2019 and 2020
Nickie Louise Posted On March 4, 2022


In recent years, women-founded startups have seen an inflow of billions of dollars as VC firms and accelerators pour money to encourage and support the once-neglected group. Just yesterday, we covered Mindshift Capital, a women-led VC fund that has attracted leading […]


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Technology News
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s son died at the age of 26, company says
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


Microsoft announced that the son of the company’s CEO Satya Nadella has died at the age of 26. Zain Nadella, who was born with cerebral palsy, died Monday, February 28 at the age of 26, the tech giant said in heart-breaking […]


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Women-led VC fund Mindshift Capital invests in global empowerment brand Rebel Girls as part of its $13M funding round
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


As we all know, female-led ventures are disproportionately overlooked by venture capitalists at multiple stages of the entrepreneurship pipeline. But women-led startups are creating more jobs than ever. In 2017 alone, for example, more than 1.1 million women-led businesses generated nearly $1.5 […]


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Ford sells its e-scooter unit Spin to German ride-sharing startup Tier in exchange for equity
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


As competition heats up in micro-mobility space, Ford Motor Company has decided to sell its e-scooter unit Spin, to Softbank-backed European rival Tier in exchange for equity. Ford said in a statement that the merger will provide the scale that’s “desperately […]


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Sports platform Fanatics hits a $27 billion valuation after raising a staggering $1.5B in new funding, adds BlackRock, Michael Dell as investors
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


Fanatics, a Jacksonville, Florida-based sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels, has raised a massive $1.5 billion in new financing, valuing the sports platform at $27 billion. The announcement comes a little over a month after Fanatics purchased […]


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London-based tech startup Ocushield raises $1.34M to build the world’s first medically-rated screen protectors that block harmful blue light that comes from our tech devices
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


Smartphones, tablets, and computer screens emit blue light, causing headaches, blurred vision, fatigue, and dry eyes. Blue light can also negatively affect your sleep hormones. With screen time rising due to the pandemic, harmful blue light is having a huge impact […]


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Quaise Energy, a geothermal energy startup spinoff out of MIT, is planning a sci-fi style WAVE ‘drill’ that will penetrate 12.4 miles into the Earth’s crust and help release unlimited clean energy
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


Back in 2020, we wrote about Kola Superdeep Borehole, the world’s deepest manmade hole ever dug. Located in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, the remote region of the Russian Arctic, the Kola hole reaches approximately 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) below the Earth’s surface and yet still only reaches […]


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AdaSwap, a Cardano DeFi ecosystem builder, raises $2.6M in funding from leading VCs and top angel investors
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


AdaSwap, an ecosystem builder that will establish one of the first DeFi protocols on the Cardano network, has announced today that it has raised $2.6 million in a round of funding led by iAngels. Shima Capital, Pluto Digital, GBV, Stardust, […]


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Cybersecurity  / Guest Post  / Security  / Technology News
How to Create A Cybersecurity Culture in your Organization
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


The cybersecurity landscape has evolved drastically over the last few years. Cybercrime has become more sophisticated, common, devastating, and successful, as is evident in the ITRC 2021 Data Breach Report. The ever-growing cyber threats, coupled with the strict enforcement of data privacy […]


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Metadata.io raises $40M to build the first automated operating system for B2B marketers
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


In 2020, the global B2B e-commerce market size was valued at USD 6.64 trillion and is expected to reach $18.57 trillion by 2026, according to data by Facts and Factor. For a market of this size, reaching potential customers is […]


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Electric Car  / Electric Vehicles  / Startup Spotlight  / Technology News  / Transportation
Elon Musk on Biden’s comments that GM is creating 11,000 jobs: “Tesla has created over 50,000 US jobs building electric vehicles & is investing more than double GM + Ford combined”
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


It looks like the feud between President Biden and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is never going to go away. Last month, Biden finally acknowledged Tesla as the “nation’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer” after months of snubbing the world’s most valuable […]


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Google’s Fitbit recalls 1.7 million of its Ionic smartwatches over burn hazard caused by lithium-ion battery overheat
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reported this morning that Google-owned Fitbit is recalling 1.7 million of its Ionic smartwatches due to a burn hazard. About 1 million of these smartwatches were sold in the U.S. with an additional 693,000 […]


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Universal 3D raises over $2 million for its GameFi Project AQUANEE
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


With the popularity of NFTs, interest in blockchain games has grown in recent months. The sudden success of the Play to Earn game has also caught the interest of users in the gaming and crypto space. The growth has led the […]


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Tokyo-based crypto tech startup SocialGood App raises $14.2M to let you earn free cryptocurrency while you shop
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


The value of the dollar has been falling since the US Federal Reserve turned on its money printer. In fact, 80 percent of all US dollars in existence were printed in the last 22 months. This has accelerated the adoption […]


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German digital bank startup N26 plans IPO after raising over $900 million at a $9 billion valuation
Nickie Louise Posted On March 1, 2022


As you may recall, we reported back in October 2021 after the Peter Thiel-backed mobile bank startup N26 raised over $900 million in funding, tripling its valuation to more than $9 billion in just one year. Fast forward four months […]


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Elon Musk says SpaceX will rescue the International Space Station and keep it from plummeting to Earth if Russia attempts to sabotage
Nickie Louise Posted On March 1, 2022


As the ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine reach a new level, the head of the Russian space agency Dimitry Rogozin warned last week that the International Space Station (ISS) is at risk of deorbiting and crashing if cooperation between the […]


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BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani has gone missing after convicted of stealing $2.4 billion in a crypto Ponzi scheme
Nickie Louise Posted On March 1, 2022


In May 2021, we covered Bitconnect after the U.S. Security Exchange Commission (SEC) charged five individuals involved in the crypto exchange startup of a Ponzi Scheme, alleging that they promoted a global unregistered digital asset securities offering that raised over $2 billion […]


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