Datarails - "First Ever Excel NFT"

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Brand: Datarails
Country: Israel

Title	First Ever Excel NFT
Campaign	First Ever Excel NFT
Brand	Datarails
Date of First Broadcast/Publication	2022 / 8
Business Sector	Banking & Financial Services, Investments, Stock Brokers
Tagline	NFT, Datarails, excel, fp&a, Ukraine, Zelensky, Ethereum
Story	First Ever Excel NFT Goes On Sale The first one-of-a-kind art collection created in Excel and available to buy as a NFT has gone on sale. Datarails, the financial planning and analysis solution for Excel users, commissioned artist Saif Ali to create 5 pieces of art using Excel. The XLS files were uploaded to OpenSea-the largest web3 marketplace for NFTs (non-fungible tokens). This marks the first time XLS files, the default format used for spreadsheets in Excel, have been made available in an NFT collection. However, like other NFTs the Excel Collection represents a set of one-of-a-kind cryptographic assets existing on blockchain technology. Each of the 5 Excel Collection NFTs will be sold for 1 ETH (Ethereum price) equivalent to around $2000 each. The works depict images from the crisis in Ukraine, including Excel renderings of President Zelensky, with all proceeds going to victims of the war, through non-profit Heart to Heart International. The art is the first to merge the burgeoning NFT art market with Excel, which is used by more than 70% of finance teams around the world. Like art, Excel also invokes strong feelings of passion among those mastering spreadsheets for tasks such as budgeting, financial modeling and forecasting. Though this is the first artist-led Excel project to enter the blockchain, creators have previously experimented with Excel as an art form. Tatsuo Horiuchi, an artist from Japan creates masterpieces in Microsoft Excel to depict rural Japan, while Emma Stevens a landscape architect creates art skylines using the spreadsheet. View and bid on the Excel NFT Art Collection here Didi Gurfinkel, Co-Founder and CEO of DataRails says: “Excel is the canvas used by anyone in finance to create ideas, innovation and financial models. In this experiment we took this concept a step further. Excel has literally been used as a palette to produce a one-of-a-kind experience for CryptoArt and spreadsheet enthusiasts to own. We hope this project will help show the broad canvas of Excel while raising funds for the plight of those in Ukraine.” About Datarails DataRails is a financial planning and analysis platform that automates data consolidation, reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue using their own Excel spreadsheets and financial models. Automating these time-consuming manual processes paves the way for finance teams to spend more time analyzing data and less time gathering it. It also empowers them to answer essential strategic questions like what their organization can do to increase revenue and reduce expenses. For more information, visit Datarails.com.
Media Type	Digital
More Information	https://www.datarails.com/nft/
Co-Founder and CEO	Didi Gurfinkel
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)	Aviv Canaani
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY	Jonathan Marciano
Head of Creative	Eran Nir
Marketing Content Writer	Guy Brillant