The debate over whether aging is a disease rages on

Last year, over Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, Kiran Rabheru eagerly joined a call with officials from the World Health Organization (WHO). Word had spread of a change coming to the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a catalogue used to standardize disease diagnosis worldwide. In an upcoming revision, the plan was to replace the diagnosis of…

Holidu pockets $102M to keep growing its vacation rentals business in Europe

Munich-based software and services vacation rental startup, Holidu, has topped up its coffers with an oversubscribed €104 million (~$102M) Series E funding round of equity and debt, led by existing investor 83North, after seeing its year-over-year revenue grew 100% in 2021. The round saw a mix of other existing and new investors chipping in, including…

MaxAB, an Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform for food and grocery supplies, nabs $40M

Last year, MaxAB, the food and grocery B2B e-commerce and distribution platform serving a network of traditional retailers across Egypt and Morocco, raised its $55 million Series A in two tranches; the latter accompanied its acquisition of the Morocco-based and YC-backed WaysToCap. The moves signaled MaxAB’s ambition to dominate Egypt’s and North Africa’s B2B retail…

In Yubaba, ‘Spirited Away’ gave us the underrated queen of movie witches

One of the greatest ailments of childhood is being so utterly obsessed with a film, but being so utterly terrified of one of its main characters. Every rewatch is doused in abrasive anxiety building up to the character’s reveal, teeth-chattering fear when they finally appear, and long nights aimlessly reminding yourself that your favorite hero…

How ‘She-Hulk’ beat its toxic haters by making them the villains

The villain of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law isn’t some cosmic evil or criminal mastermind. Instead, it’s something far more sinister and far more real: a group of toxic, entitled men who call themselves Intelligencia and have devoted themselves to harassing and harming Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), aka She-Hulk. Intelligencia’s misogynistic arguments — Jen doesn’t deserve…