January 14, 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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Cloud Capital emerges from stealth with $7.7M to tackle the $344B cloud cost crisis for CFOs
Nickie Louise Posted On April 24, 2025


CFOs are staring down a growing financial black hole—and it’s coming from their cloud bills. As companies double down on AI infrastructure, cloud usage is spiking at a rate most finance teams can’t keep up with. Costs are ballooning, long-term […]


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Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink eyes $500M raise at $8.5B valuation for brain-computer interface expansion
Nickie Louise Posted On April 24, 2025


Neuralink, the brain implant startup founded by Elon Musk, is planning to raise around $500 million in fresh funding at a pre-money valuation of $8.5 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the deal. The round, still in its early […]


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Security startup Chainguard raises $356M at $3.5B valuation as demand for secure software supply chains surges
Nickie Louise Posted On April 23, 2025


Open source has supercharged modern software development. Roughly 90% of production code today is pulled from public repositories, turning what once took weeks into something developers now ship in hours. But there’s a catch—one that teams feel every day. That […]


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CIV launches $200M VC fund to invest in manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure startups
Nickie Louise Posted On April 23, 2025


While Silicon Valley remains hooked on AI, a quieter movement is taking shape—one that’s focused on rebuilding what keeps society running. The latest sign? A new venture capital firm called CIV has just raised $200 million to back technology startups […]


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Lattica emerges from stealth with $3.25M to make encrypted AI a reality using FHE
Nickie Louise Posted On April 23, 2025


AI adoption has grown quickly since ChatGPT’s breakout two years ago, but trust hasn’t kept pace. While businesses are eager to explore AI, concerns around data privacy and security are slowing progress, especially in industries that handle sensitive information. According […]


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Swedish fintech startup Froda raises €20M Series B to expand embedded SME financing across Europe
Nickie Louise Posted On April 23, 2025


Amid a fintech funding slowdown that’s left many startups scrambling, Swedish embedded finance scaleup Froda just secured €20 million in fresh capital—one of the few standout equity rounds in Europe this year. The Series B was led by Stockholm-based Incore […]


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Pulling timely and relevant data for AI agents using Bright Data
Nickie Louise Posted On April 23, 2025


AI agent adoption is skyrocketing in all verticals, as part of the shift towards autonomous AI systems that can complete complex tasks without human involvement. Many organizations are benefiting from the value they can deliver, but there’s a significant obstacle […]


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Blockchain infrastructure startup Arch Labs raises $13M from Pantera to bring native smart contracts to Bitcoin
Nickie Louise Posted On April 22, 2025


Bitcoin may be the most valuable asset in crypto, worth over $2 trillion. However, using it for anything beyond payments is still a hassle. Developers looking to build DeFi apps or mint NFTs have to rely on centralized exchanges or […]


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Concordium secures native launch of four stablecoins backed by major currencies, expanding PayFi ecosystem
Nickie Louise Posted On April 22, 2025


Stablecoins have become a cornerstone of crypto transactions, but most still rely on smart contracts—code that’s been at the center of countless hacks and exploits. Concordium is rewriting that script. The enterprise-focused Layer 1 blockchain just landed four new stablecoins—each […]


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Nvidia loses $1.15 trillion in 3 months as China tensions rattle Wall Street
Nickie Louise Posted On April 21, 2025


On January 24, Nvidia closed with a staggering $3.49 trillion market cap. Just days later, it lost $600 billion in under two hours as DeepSeek’s surprise breakout sparked fresh doubts about runaway AI chip spending. Three months later, the bleeding […]


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Upexi is raising $100 million to buy Solana crypto token
Nickie Louise Posted On April 21, 2025


Upexi is shifting gears in a big way — and Wall Street noticed. The consumer brand company announced plans to raise $100 million as it moves into crypto, specifically with a strategy focused on buying and staking Solana. The news […]


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Keppel raises $1.53 billion for Fund III to power data centers amid AI boom
Nickie Louise Posted On April 21, 2025


Keppel, the Singapore-based asset manager and operator, announced on Monday it has secured S$2 billion (about $1.53 billion) in capital commitments from global institutional investors across three of its flagship strategies. The announcement came as interest in infrastructure tied to […]


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Sam Altman: Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI millions—Should users stop?
Nickie Louise Posted On April 20, 2025


OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just pulled back the curtain on a strange but fascinating cost driver behind ChatGPT: politeness. In a recent statement, Altman revealed that simple phrases like “please” and “thank you” are quietly racking up millions in computing […]


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How Early-Stage Blockchain Startups Can Win Over Cautious Investors
Nickie Louise Posted On April 20, 2025


Raising capital for your blockchain startup is not quite as easy as it used to be. Back in 2017, all you needed was a catchy idea, a whitepaper, decent tokenomics, and you’d be halfway towards raising millions through an ICO. […]


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Silo V2 Lending Reduces Risk and Ramps Up Rewards on Sonic
Nickie Louise Posted On April 18, 2025


Risk-isolated lending protocol Silo has launched V2 of its protocol on Sonic, the high-speed Layer 1 that was once known as Fantom. Risk-isolation has always been synonymous with Silo, whose lending and borrowing protocol has hundreds of millions of dollars […]


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Anthropic backs Goodfire in $50M Series A funding to decode AI models, marking first-ever startup investment
Nickie Louise Posted On April 18, 2025


Anthropic just made its first startup investment—and it’s a telling one. The AI startup behind the popular chatbot Claude has invested $1 million in Goodfire, a San Francisco-based company working to ‘break open the black box of generative AI models’ […]


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Uber in talks to acquire Turkish food delivery startup Trendyol Go
Nickie Louise Posted On April 18, 2025


Uber is looking to make a comeback in Turkey—and this time, it’s betting on food. According to Bloomberg, the U.S. ride-hailing and delivery giant is in talks to acquire food delivery startup Trendyol Go, a key player in Turkey’s booming […]


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Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash, a multimodal AI model built for speed, scale, and affordability
Nickie Louise Posted On April 17, 2025


Google just dropped a new AI model into the mix: Gemini 2.5 Flash, and it’s already turning heads. This preview release is aimed at developers and businesses looking for something smart, fast, and budget-friendly. Google is calling it a “workhorse […]


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Four Ways AI Is Transforming Fintech
Nickie Louise Posted On April 17, 2025


Comparisons between AI and the early internet are unavoidable. So let’s get them out of the way: we’re fast approaching a time where apps without AI will seem as unthinkable as doing business without the internet. Right now, there’s lot […]


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Judge finds Google guilty of illegal monopoly in online ad markets, DOJ antitrust case advances
Nickie Louise Posted On April 17, 2025


Alphabet’s advertising empire just took a major hit. A federal judge ruled Thursday that Google illegally dominated two key markets in online advertising, marking a significant win for the U.S. Department of Justice in its ongoing antitrust battle with the […]


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