♥ Pune and San Francisco-based mobile customer relationship management (CRM) company Helpshift Inc. has raised $23 million (around Rs 153.6 crore) in its Series B round led by Microsoft Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, CISCO Investments. Existing investors Intel Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, True Ventures and Visionnaire Ventures also joined this round . Helpshift and Cisco will share their technical skills to integrate Helpshift’s in-app customer support solutions with Cisco’s leading contact centre solutions. ♥ New Delhi based non-banking financial company AYE Finance has closed its Series B round of funding of about 10.3 million USD from LGT Impact Ventures and existing investors SAIF Partners and Accion. The company will use this fresh capital to grow its business across the country with a target loan of Rs 2,000 crore over next five years. ♥ Japanese education technology startup Arcterus has raised 1M USD in Series B funding from distance learning company Z-Kai and Asahi.The funds...

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♥ India based Parenting social discovery platform BabyChakra has raised an undisclosed amount in Series-A funding round from Seattle based venture capital fund Round Glass Partners. The funds will be invested in product’s  technology development, strategic hiring and boosting localized contents. The company has partnered with more than  16,000 service providers till date , offers resources and information on parenting and early childhood development ♥ Securly, a Calif.-based education startup based startup which offers web filtering services primarily for schools, has raised  USD 4 million in a Series A funding round led by Owl Ventures. Secu Founded in 2012, Securely claims the ability to use natural language processing to find warning flags in kids’ web searches or social media posts. The company plans use the funding to build notification features for parents as a part of product development ♥ Vincross, Headquartered at Beijing, China , a robotics startup company raised $6 million in...

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