Haystacks.AI, a New York-based provider of a data aggregation and intelligence platform for real estate investors, raised $3M in Seed funding.The round was led by RRE Ventures, Assurant Ventures, and Preface Ventures, with participation from Streamlined Ventures, Colle Capital, Adit Ventures, and Hyperplane.The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product and platform development, as...

Imagine a world where humans can thrive without harming any animals for food.By cutting meat consumption and shifting to a plant-based diet, we could reduce greenhouse gases by 70% by 2050 and spare 105 animals per person each year.Cellular agriculture has the power to make this shift less daunting. The infographic above from CULT Food Science (CSE: CULT) explores five reasons why foods produce...

Fashion Week Heads to the Metaverse. What Does It Mean for Marketers? The highly anticipated event is bound to define culture, shape behavior and guide digital transformation.Customize your avatar in Hugo’s latest NFT and connect your crypto wallet—Metaverse Fashion Week (MVFW) is here. Iconic luxury brands like Dolce & Gabbana, Dundas and Etro are partaking, and the activities this week...

If inflatable neck pillows can be comfortable, why not an inflatable gaming controller ?AirShock is a conceptual PlayStation controller. To make it as functional as a regular controller, it features a USB-C port for connection and charging, an 800 mAh battery for wireless use, a touch-sensitive control panel on the top, and blue LEDs spread throughout the device. And yes, it can also be used as...

Gaming & esports is a vibrant and fast-growing sector, powered largely by the passion of 3 billion enthusiasts around the globe. With its substantial revenue potential, the high-quality jobs it creates, and its reputational benefits, Gaming & esports presents rich opportunities for industry and national governments alike.Gaming and esports are distinct yet integrated ecosystems, combini...

NFTs are meant to be shown off like the overpriced art pieces that they are, so this concept tries to do so in a way that is also useful, even if you don’t have any NFTs to your name.NFTs, short for the almost indecipherable “non-fungible tokens,” are currently controversial within the art and designer communities. Setting those debates aside, these digital artifacts have always been envisio...

Low pay, a lack of opportunities for advancement and feeling disrespected at work were key reasons US workers quit in 2021.The 'quit rate' in the United States reached a 20-year high during the COVID-19 pandemic.New research finds that low pay, a lack of opportunities for advancement and feeling disrespected at work were the top reasons why Americans quit their jobs that year.Many US workers wh...

Nvidia has launched a new mapping platform that will provide the autonomous vehicle industry with ground truth mapping coverage of over 300,000 miles of roadway in North America, Europe and Asia by 2024, founder and CEO Jensen Huang said at the company’s GTC event on Tuesday.The platform, dubbed Drive Map, is geared toward enabling high levels of autonomous driving. Drive Map isn’t only open...

Heirloom, a San Francisco, CA-based direct air capture company permanently removing CO2 from the atmosphere, raised $53M in Series A funding.The round was co-led by Carbon Direct Capital Management, Ahren Innovation Capital, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, with participation from The Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund. The Series A financing also includes investments from climate funds and ent...