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Bogota-based Habi, which offers a real estate marketplace in Mexico and Colombia, raises a $200M Series C led by Homebrew and SoftBank at a $1B+ valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Data of EU privacy chief Didier Reynders, Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel, and dozens of EU officials found among Facebook’s leaked data set of 533M records (Politico)

‘The IRS is in crisis.’ Here’s what to know as taxpayer advocate warns of potential for refund delays in 2022

Skael, which provides no-code automation tools for enterprises, raises a $38M Series A led by RTP Global, bringing its total funding to $42M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Fetch Rewards, which offers a consumer loyalty and retail rewards app, raises $210M Series D led by Vision Fund 2, at a valuation over $1B (Stephanie Sorrina Beecher/Milwaukee …)

Pivotal Commware, which develops mmWave 5G infrastructure products that make use of metamaterials tech, raises $50M Series C led by Tracker Capital Management (Alan Boyle/GeekWire)

Billionaire Bratz creator calls a Black influencer ‘a disgrace to Black people’

Anthony Levandowski closed his AI-focused church, Way of The Future, in 2020 and donated the church’s ~$175K funds to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Lidar sensor manufacturer Ouster says it will go public through a SPAC, raising up to $200M at a valuation of ~$1.9B, the fifth lidar manufacturer to do so (Reuters)

The White House says 10M+ households have enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill, for broadband discounts (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)

Quali, which offers tools to automate cloud management and deployment, raises $54M co-led by Greenfield Partners and JVP, bringing its total raised to ~$100M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

A recap of Elon Musk’s Clubhouse appearance, which broke the 5,000 participant limit, pushing some to YouTube, and included an interview with Robinhood’s CEO (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)