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A look at Facebook's prayers feature and its outreach with faith groups, which Facebook says was given new urgency during the pandemic (Elizabeth Culliford/Reuters)

Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: A look at Facebook’s prayers feature and its outreach with faith groups, which Facebook says was given new urgency during the pandemic  —  Facebook (FB.O) has long sought your attention.  In recent weeks, it has started asking for your prayers as well in a new tool now available for U.S. Facebook

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Loop Returns, whose software enables stores on Shopify to handle online returns, raises $65M Series B led by CRV at a post-money valuation of $340M (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: Loop Returns, whose software enables stores on Shopify to handle online returns, raises $65M Series B led by CRV at a post-money valuation of $340M  —  Loop Returns, a software company looking to handle the costly and inefficient process of retail/ecommerce returns, has announced the close of a $65 million Series

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Vestwell raises $70M Series C for its API-based technology that helps employers, particularly small businesses, manage staff retirement plans (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Vestwell raises $70M Series C for its API-based technology that helps employers, particularly small businesses, manage staff retirement plans  —  Vestwell, a NYC-based API technology platform for workplace savings and investing programs, raised $70m in Series C financing. Vestwell raises M Series C for its API-based technology that helps employers, particularly small businesses, manage

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Numerade, which sells subscriptions to short-form STEM videos, raises $26M Series A at a $100M valuation, as it develops an algorithm to offer custom content (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Numerade, which sells subscriptions to short-form STEM videos, raises $26M Series A at a $100M valuation, as it develops an algorithm to offer custom content  —  Edtech entrepreneurs are using their moment in the sun to rethink the structures and impact of nearly every aspect of modern-day learning … Numerade, which

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Shares of Zomato jumped as much as 83% in its trading debut in Mumbai, after it raised $1.3B in its IPO, at a valuation of about $8.7B (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg)

Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg: Shares of Zomato jumped as much as 83% in its trading debut in Mumbai, after it raised $1.3B in its IPO, at a valuation of about $8.7B  —  – Zomato shares rise as much as 83% over IPO price in Mumbai  — Zomato raised $1.3 billion in its initial public offering

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