September 14, 2025
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Nickie Louise

Nickie is a writer and editor for TechStartups.com. Nickie loves writing about early-stage startups, new technologies, cryptocurrencies, gaming, and gadgets. When not writing about technology, Nickie enjoys crafts, spending time with family, hiking, and exploring God's majestic creation.


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Etched, an AI chip startup founded by college dropouts, raises $120 million in funding to take on Nvidia
Nickie Louise Posted On June 25, 2024


Nvidia has long been the uncontested leader in the AI GPU market, but a new contender has just emerged. Etched, a two-year-old startup founded by Harvard dropouts, is stepping into the ring to challenge the chipmaking giant’s dominance with substantial […]


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Pioneering the Future of Borderless Real-World Asset Transactions
Nickie Louise Posted On June 25, 2024


Real-world assets (RWAs) have the potential to become a borderless and boundless disruptive technological advancement — but they face global barriers to adoption. These barriers arise in the face of international transactions, regulatory navigation, and verification practices. However, Web3 can […]


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Did OpenAI just secretly acquire Multi?
Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2024


Less than a week following its acquisition of enterprise data startup Rockset, OpenAI has reportedly added another tech startup to its portfolio: Multi. This news was first reported on Hacker News, with no major news outlets confirming the acquisition, except […]


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AI startup companies Suno and Udio sued by major music labels for copyright infringement
Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2024


In a major legal challenge that could have widespread implications across the AI industry, major record labels Sony Music, Universal Music Group (UMG), and Warner Records have filed lawsuits on Monday against generative AI startups Suno and Udio. The lawsuits, […]


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Paris-based startup Skynopy secures $3.1M in funding to simplify mobile phone connectivity for LEO satellites
Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2024


Paris-based space startup Skynopy has raised $3.1 million in a swift funding round to bring simple and seamless mobile phone connectivity to low earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Impressively, the funding was secured in just three weeks, just a few months […]


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Apple in talks with Meta on major AI partnership
Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2024


While Apple and OpenAI have just made their partnership official, other tech giants are eagerly vying for a spot on the Apple Intelligence bandwagon — including some of Apple’s fiercest rivals. The latest is Meta. According to an exclusive report […]


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Nvidia-backed AI startup Synthesia now lets you create multilingual presentations from your phone
Nickie Louise Posted On June 24, 2024


In April, we wrote about Synthesia after the Nvidia-backed AI startup unveiled new emotion-reading AI avatars. Dubbed “Expressive Avatars,” Synthesia’s AI Avatars are designed to bridge the gap between the virtual and real worlds by conveying human emotions through text […]


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OpenAI acquires enterprise data startup Rockset to bolster real-time analytics
Nickie Louise Posted On June 21, 2024


OpenAI has acquired enterprise analytics startup Rockset to leverage data more effectively across its suite of products and  “power our retrieval infrastructure across products,” the company said in a blog post on Friday. The announcement comes just a day after […]


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Would you trust Elon Musk’s X to be your new bank?
Nickie Louise Posted On June 21, 2024


Elon Musk, the visionary billionaire behind Tesla and Neuralink, is setting his sights on a new industry: financial services. Now, Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) wants to be your new bank he eyes the expansion of the social network platform into […]


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Energy giant EDF subsidiary Exaion joins Cronos as a blockchain validator to bolsters security
Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2024


Exaion, a subsidiary of France’s state-owned energy giant EDF (Électricité de France), has partnered with Cronos to become a validator on its blockchain network as part of the effort to boost security. The collaboration will enable Cronos to enhance its […]


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Security startup Pomerium raises $13.75M in Series A funding led by Benchmark
Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2024


Pomerium, a security startup and a provider of access-first security platform, today announced it has secured $13.75 million in a Series A funding round led by Benchmark. Returning investors Bain Capital, Haystack, SNR, and Oleg Rogynskyy, founder of People.AI, also […]


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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever launches new AI startup, Safe Superintelligence (SSI)
Nickie Louise Posted On June 20, 2024


Just a month after his departure from OpenAI, former chief scientist and ChatGPT-4 creator Ilya Sutskever announced on Wednesday the launch of his new AI startup, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), focused exclusively on developing safe and powerful superintelligent AI. SSI is […]


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Microsoft to buy 8 million carbon credits from BTG Pactual in a largest carbon removal deal ever
Nickie Louise Posted On June 19, 2024


Microsoft has secured millions of carbon credits from Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual, marking the largest carbon removal transaction on record. In an announcement on Wednesday, BTG Pactual’s forestry division said it has reached an agreement to sell 8 million […]


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Nvidia is now the world’s most valuable company, surpassing Microsoft
Nickie Louise Posted On June 19, 2024


In a stunning turn of events, Nvidia has unseated Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company. This milestone comes just two weeks after Nvidia surpassed Apple to secure the second-most valuable company position. On Tuesday, Nvidia’s shares surged by […]


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Sonic secures $12 million in Series A funding to boost gaming on Solana
Nickie Louise Posted On June 18, 2024


Sonic, the first gaming-focused layer-2 blockchain to launch on Solana, has secured $12 million in Series A funding. The round was led by BITKRAFT Ventures, with additional investments from Galaxy Interactive, Big Brain Holdings, and other notable firms. This latest […]


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Cybersecurity startup Huntress raises $150M in Series D funding; doubles its valuation to over $1.5 billion
Nickie Louise Posted On June 18, 2024


Cybersecurity startup Huntress has secured $150 million in Series D funding to secure IT infrastructure and bolster security for small businesses and the service providers that support them. The round, led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech Capital, and existing investor Sapphire […]


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AI startup Decagon emerges from stealth with $35M in funding to revolutionize customer service with AI
Nickie Louise Posted On June 18, 2024


The gold rush for artificial intelligence shows no signs of slowing down as investors and VC firms pour billions into innovative generative AI startups. One of the latest beneficiaries of this funding wave is Decagon, a tech startup specializing in […]


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ChatGPT is down again, second outage in about two weeks
Nickie Louise Posted On June 17, 2024


After a major outage left millions without access, OpenAI’s ChatGPT appears to be down again for the second outage in about two weeks. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is experiencing a significant outage, lasting around four hours. As we deal with these disruptions […]


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OpenAI considers becoming a for-profit company, paving way for IPO
Nickie Louise Posted On June 17, 2024


OpenAI CEO Sam Altman privately told some shareholders that the company is considering a potential change in its governance structure to a for-profit business independent of its nonprofit board, The Information reported on Friday. One proposed scenario is transforming OpenAI […]


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Naver’s Webtoon Entertainment targets up to $2.67 billion valuation in US IPO
Nickie Louise Posted On June 17, 2024


Webtoon Entertainment, the online comics platform owned by South Korean tech giant Naver, announced on Monday its plans to seek a valuation of up to $2.67 billion in its upcoming U.S. initial public offering. The platform originally debuted in South […]


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