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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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Simplesat’s CSAT Surveys Provide the Holistic View You Need to Grow Your Business
Nickie Louise Posted On October 10, 2018


If you’re looking to scale your business and dominate your space, collecting customer satisfaction data (CSAT) is crucial. This information is gold and will shed light on what’s working and what is not. However, for many businesses, it’s not about […]


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Biotech startup RWDC closes $13 million Series A2 to accelerate the development of PHA biodegradable biopolymers as alternative to  plastics
Nickie Louise Posted On October 10, 2018


RWDC Industries Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based biotech startup, closed a $13 million Series A2 funding to expand RWDC’s PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate) production capacity in Athens, Georgia (USA), to 2,000 tonnes per year, making the company among the world’s largest PHA producers by […]


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Wool Cross X: The All-terrain, Temperature Regulating Shoe for the Outdoor Adventurer is Here
Nickie Louise Posted On October 10, 2018


If you’re an outdoor adventurer, you may have trouble finding the right pair of shoes since many activities require something different such as hiking versus running. New on Kickstarter is the Wool Cross X – the first ever all-terrain multi-sport […]


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Cyber Defense startup Mission Secure raises Series A venture financing to accelerate growth and expansion to energy, defense, and transportation sectors
Nickie Louise Posted On October 10, 2018


Mission Secure Inc. (MSi), a cyber defense startup focused on energy, defense, and transportation, has closed raised undisclosed amount  in Series A financing round to accelerate growth and expansion of its throughout the energy, defense, and transportation sectors. The latest round was led by […]


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The Canadian Tech Startup Cities Index: The Best Cities and Tech Hubs to Start a Business in Canada
Nickie Louise Posted On October 10, 2018


Our friend at Expert Market, a leading B2B comparison site, has released new research revealing Canada’s top tech haven cities. Ontarian tri-cities Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo beat out the competition for first place, while the Canadian capital Ottawa languishes in fourth position. The study investigates […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Wednesday, October 10
Nickie Louise Posted On October 10, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Wednesday, October 10. Japanese startup ispace is teaming with Draper, and other Apollo-era companies to build moon lunar landers for NASA. ispace, a Japanese space startup […]


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Perceptive Automata raises $16 million in Series A funding to advance human intuition for self-driving cars
Nickie Louise Posted On October 9, 2018


The hardest problem facing autonomous vehicles today is understanding human behavior and intention. There is perception gap and today’s machines lack this critical ability to interpret the visual cues from humans. That’s exactly the problem the team at Perceptive Automata has […]


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These three creative startups are 2018 winners of $50,000 from The Center for Creative Economy
Nickie Louise Posted On October 9, 2018


The Center for Creative Economy is an independent non-profit organization established in 2011 by principals from industry, education and the Piedmont Triad Partnership (PTP) in Winston-Salem, North Carolia. The Center helps to launch, grow, and accelerate creative businesses. Every year the […]


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Israeli startup TechSee secured a strategic investment to fuel innovation and accelerate business growth and sales
Nickie Louise Posted On October 9, 2018


TechSee, a provider of AI-based visual engagement platform that automates customer interactions with a virtual tech assistant, has secured a strategic investment to further accelerate its business growth and strengthen its technology. The latest investment was led by Salesforce Ventures. The […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Tuesday, October 9
Nickie Louise Posted On October 9, 2018


Good afternoon! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, October 9. Basis, a mental health support startup, has secured $3.75 million in funding. Basis is a mental health startup founded by ex-Uber executive Andrew Chapin […]


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Artificial intelligence startup Machinify secures $10 million in Series A funding to develop first “Data-To-Cash” AI platform
Nickie Louise Posted On October 8, 2018


Did you know that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day? Organizations around the world face the challenges of making sense of the data and getting the right insights needed to make informed decisions. That is the problem […]


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Google Plus is officially shutting down after security breach exposes up to 500,000 users’ data
Nickie Louise Posted On October 8, 2018


After several attempts to compete with Facebook, Google Plus is finally shutting down. Google is shutting down the struggling social media  following the discovery of a software glitch this past spring that may have exposed the private profile data of 500,000 […]


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Blockchain voting startup Votem acquires election software and online voting company Everyone Counts
Nickie Louise Posted On October 8, 2018


Votem, a blockchain-based mobile voting platform that enables citizens around the world to easily vote online with unprecedented verifiability, accessibility, security, and transparency, has acquired a 21-year old market-leading election software and online voting company, Everyone Counts. The terms of […]


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Fintech Europe Plug and Play selects 10 startups for its second batch
Nickie Louise Posted On October 8, 2018


Last week, we wrote about 12 disruptive health tech startups selected to join Plug and Play Cleveland Innovation Platform. This week Fintech Europe, a Plug and Play’s fintech-focused innovation platform based out of Frankfurt, Germany, announced today it has selected 10 […]


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Corporate credit card for startups Brex raises $125 million Series C to accelerate growth
Nickie Louise Posted On October 8, 2018


One of the challenges with launching a new startup is funding. We’ve written many articles about startups raising funding from venture capitalists, startup accelerators, incubators and in some cases, government grants and bootstrapping. In some cases, startup founders have no other […]


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WAU – The BEST feature-packed smart eBike
Nickie Louise Posted On October 5, 2018


With gas prices going up around the world, everyone is trying to find ways to save money. A growing number of people are also turning to electric bikes to save themselves from city traffic, live healthier lives and the fun […]


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SaaS machine learning platform startup Valohai joins Microsoft ScaleUp program to boost deep learning for enterprises
Nickie Louise Posted On October 5, 2018


Valohai, a SaaS machine learning platform that automates training and deployment infrastructure, announced it has joined Microsoft ScaleUp program to boost deep learning for enterprises. In joining the program, Valohai and Microsoft will be strengthening the offering to Azure’s enterprise customers with an […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Friday, October 5
Nickie Louise Posted On October 5, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Friday, October 5. Fintech startup Curve is seeking to raise $50 million to become the ‘Amazon of banking.’ Curve, a fintech startup that simplifies your financial life […]


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PureSec raises $7M in Series A funding to secure serverless applications; launches a free tier plan.
Nickie Louise Posted On October 5, 2018


Serverless computing is revolutionizing the IT landscape and turning the traditional computing architecture on its head. Gone are the days when organizations have to spend millions of dollars on computing infrastructure, later to replace it every 5 years. Serverless computing […]


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Cybersecurity startup Perch Security raises $9 million Series A funding to fuel expansion in software development, marketing and customer success
Nickie Louise Posted On October 4, 2018


Perch Security, a cybersecurity startup that makes threat intelligence accessible and affordable for  organizations who don’t have dedicated threat analyst teams, has secured a $9 million in Series A funding to accelerate and expand development, marketing and customer success. The round was […]


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