• Battery Ventures leads $75M Series D in travel activities platform GetYourGuide

    Battery Ventures leads $75M Series D in travel activities platform GetYourGuide

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    Right after Berlin-based travel activities booking platform GetYourGuide announced its $50 million Series C, one of Europe’s biggest tourist draws, the city of Paris, was rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. The awful events in Paris were clearly not good news for a tourism-dependent business. “We closed the round on the eve of the Paris…

  • Asana raises $75M Series D led by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management

    Asana raises $75M Series D led by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management

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    Asana, the productivity and collaboration service, is getting a major infusion of cash after Generation Investment Management, a London-based firm backed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, led a $75 million investment. Investment Management was joined in this Series D round by existing backers 8VC, Founders Fund, Y Combinator President Sam Altman who also participated…

  • Nexar gets $30M Series B for its AI-based road safety dashcams and network

    Nexar gets $30M Series B for its AI-based road safety dashcams and network

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    Nexar, a startup that makes an AI-based dashcam app to monitor road safety, announced today that it has raised a $30 million Series B led by Ibex Ventures. Participants included Alibaba Innovation Ventures (the venture capital investment arm of Alibaba Group), Nationwide Insurance and returning investors Aleph, Mosaic Ventures, Slow Ventures, True Ventures and Tusk…

  • 20 Best Legendary Pokémon, Ranked | ScreenRant

    20 Best Legendary Pokémon, Ranked | ScreenRant

    Over the course of seven generations of Pokémon, the series has produced dozens of Legendary beasts – Pokémon with powers and abilities unlike any other. But which are the best? What makes one Legendary Pokémon better than another? Throughout this article, we will discuss each creature’s backstory, their characteristics, and strengths, as well as their…

  • 25 Best Disney Villains Of All Time, Ranked | ScreenRant

    25 Best Disney Villains Of All Time, Ranked | ScreenRant

    They make us laugh. They make us cry. They make us cower in our seats. They give cinema’s heroes and heroines something to fight for. Hollywood villains are often some of the most unforgettable characters on screen. So, they’ve understandably come to be some of the most beloved of all time. That’s especially true of the villains…

  • 20 Best TV Vampires Of All Time |

    20 Best TV Vampires Of All Time |

    Since Dark Shadows introduced vampires to television in the 1960s, one could argue that the vampire subgenre has exploded. Movies have also helped the genre come alive from Twilight to What We Do in the Shadows that has recently been turned into a television series as well. There’s been several shows centering on vampires including…

  • The 19 Best Japanese Animated Movies | ScreenRant

    The 19 Best Japanese Animated Movies | ScreenRant

    If Walt Disney is the godfather of animation in the U.S. (and he is), Tezuka is his counterpart in Japan. Before moving to the big screen, he created Astro Boy, contributing over 150,000 pages of work to Japanese comics, or manga. In 1960, Tezuka transitioned to film with The Journey to the West, which he…

  • 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Ant-Man | ScreenRant

    15 Things You Didn’t Know About Ant-Man | ScreenRant

    ‘Cautious optimism’ would be the term used to describe Ant-Man’s release to theaters in 2015 after years of rabid anticipation. Although the character has been in the public eye since his Marvel debut in 1962, it took decades and several failed attempts to finally bring Hank Pym and Scott Lang to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.…

  • The 20 Most Powerful Mortal Kombat Characters |

    The 20 Most Powerful Mortal Kombat Characters |

    With eleven main entries and a few spin-off titles across multiple timelines, Mortal Kombat still goes strong after over twenty-five years. Mortal Kombat is actually so famous that it received a 2021 reboot movie; that shows the impact of the many characters and lore. Speaking of which, there are a lot of characters good, evil,…

  • 25 Best Horror Movies Of All Time |

    25 Best Horror Movies Of All Time |

    What are the best horror movies of all time? The greatest horror films have been the most popular method of nightmare creation for the past hundred years. The one thing people all over the world can agree on is that they love entering dark rooms and having the worst imaginable creations jump out onto a screen to…