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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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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Friday, June 15
Nickie Louise Posted On June 15, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Friday, June 15. Cryptocurrency Ether soars 9% after SEC official says it’s not a security. Ether, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, jumped about 9 percent Thursday after […]


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Social intelligence startup Influential raises $12 million to take its AI SaaS platform to market
Nickie Louise Posted On June 14, 2018


Influential, the social intelligence startup has raised a $12 million Series B financing round to take the its AI SaaS platform to market. The current round was led by existing investors, Capital Zed and Europlay Capitol Advisors, with participation from WME. The […]


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Google is opening its first AI research center in Africa
Nickie Louise Posted On June 14, 2018


Google announced yesterday in a blog post that it will open an artificial intelligence (AI) research center in Accra, Ghana. The AI center is scheduled to open later this year. It will be Google’s first AI center on the African […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Thursday, June 14
Nickie Louise Posted On June 14, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Thursday, June 14. SpinLaunch just raised $40 million to build a space catapult. Flying cars, vacation in space, cures for death and now we have a Silicon Valley […]


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OpenSpace launches AI for the construction industry
Nickie Louise Posted On June 13, 2018


OpenSpace,  a stealth machine vision company solving interesting problems for large-scale construction, today launches to the public an AI framework that gives builders and construction workers a photographic memory. Using OpenSpace, field workers can travel through time to look at […]


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Data platform startup Quovo closes Series B funding round extension; brings total funding to $20 million
Nickie Louise Posted On June 13, 2018


Quovo, a data platform providing connectivity to consumer financial accounts, has closed its Series B funding round extension, bringing the firm’s total funding to $20 million. The investments were led by Portag3 Ventures, a leading Canadian-based venture capital firm exclusively […]


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CryptoFriends will celebrate its 1st Birthday on the “Blockchain Island”
Nickie Louise Posted On June 13, 2018


CryptoFriends, the eclectic Blockchain and Crypto events company will be turning 1 year old in a week, and they are throwing an exclusive Crypto iGathering Party on the ‘Blockchain Island’ of Malta on June 16th to celebrate. Read more to […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Wednesday, June 13
Nickie Louise Posted On June 13, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Wednesday, June 13. Toyota pours $1 billion in Grab making it the biggest investment in ride-hailing. Toyota makes record $1 billion investment in ride-hailing firm Grab in Southeast […]


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Salesforce is investing over $2.5 billion in its UK business to accelerate growth
Nickie Louise Posted On June 12, 2018


Salesforce is planning to invest more than $2.5 billion over the next five years to fuel the growth of its UK business. The global leader in CRM made the announcement ahead of participating in Prime Minister May’s Tech Investment Roundtable […]


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Tesla is laying off 9% of its 46,000-person workforce
Nickie Louise Posted On June 12, 2018


Tesla is laying off approximately 9 percent of its 46,000-person workforce. The cuts will focus on salaried positions. The company told its employees Tuesday that it will cut about 9 percent of its workforce, trimming mostly salaried positions, leaving hourly factory jobs […]


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Healthtech startup Sensome raises $5.6 million to bring the first connected stroke device to market
Nickie Louise Posted On June 12, 2018


In 2015, there were 795,000 reported cases of stroke in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association. That’s one stroke every 7 seconds. A patient dies or is left with disability as a result of stroke. One startup is trying […]


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Primary Venture Partners raises $100 million to invest in New York City startups
Nickie Louise Posted On June 12, 2018


Primary Venture Partners today has raised $100 million to invest in seed-stage technology startups based in New York City. The fund is the second for co-founders Brad Svrluga and Ben Sun, who finished investing out of their first $60 million seed […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Tuesday, June 12
Nickie Louise Posted On June 12, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, June 12. Xiaomi’s is considering a $10 billion IPO. The Chinese smartphone maker is considering raising about half of its proposed $10 billion initial public offering […]


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Oncology software startup Radformation raises $1.6 million to automate cancer treatment workflows
Nickie Louise Posted On June 11, 2018


After a windfall first half of 2018, featuring New York-based healthtech startups raising millions of dollars in funding, the Big Apple’s oncology community is looking towards newly seed funded Radformation, an oncology startup founded by three physicists. The  startup announced it […]


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Industrial cyber security startup Claroty raises $60 million in Series B funding
Nickie Louise Posted On June 11, 2018


Industrial cyber security startup Claroty has secured $60 million in Series B funding. The funding came from a prominent syndicate of investors, including industrial operators and control system vendors. The latest funding round brings the company’s total investment to date to […]


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Electric-car startup Byton secures $500 million in new funding to further mass production, R&D and product development
Nickie Louise Posted On June 11, 2018


We covered Byton back in January when the startup unveiled its electric SUV concept at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Today the Chinese electric startup announced it has concluded its successful Series-B fundraising round, attracting a total of […]


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Workday acquires Adaptive Insights for $1.55 billion to accelerate business planning efforts
Nickie Louise Posted On June 11, 2018


Workday, the cloud-based platform startup that offers HR and other back-office apps for businesses, has acquired Adaptive Insights for $1.55 billion to bolsters its business planning efforts. Workday made the announcement in a blog post on its website. The transaction is expected to close […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Monday, June 11
Nickie Louise Posted On June 11, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Monday, June 11. South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail hacked for nearly $40 million. It was another sad day for cryptocurrency investors as bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies […]


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Top tech startup news of the week (startup weekend roundup – June 9)
Nickie Louise Posted On June 10, 2018


Happy weekend! Here is a roundup of the top startup news of the past week. Please subscribe to the TechStartups Newsletter using the form at the right corner of this page, if you want this weekly update in your inbox […]


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US unveils world’s most powerful supercomputer; beats China’s fastest machine to regain the supercomputer crown
Nickie Louise Posted On June 8, 2018


The United States today unveils world’s most powerful AI-based supercomputer that beats China’s fastest machine. The US regains the crown for world’s fastest computer for the first time since 2012.  The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) announced Friday. The new America’s AI-based […]


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