Shirsa Labs raises $250K in angel funding from ah! Ventures
Summary
Till date, it has invested close to Rs 60 crore in over 20 startups spread across varied industries and domains, including Shirsa Labs.Shirsa Labs was founded in 2013 by Sukhada Tendulkar and Mandar Desai. It uses online engagement platform \xe2\x80\x9cPlanet of GUI\xe2\x80\x9d to entertain and educate 6-13-year-old children.The market that Shirsa is targeting is phenomenally large, said Harshad Lahoti, founder and CEO of ah! It has multiple games, worksheets, videos, DIYs (do it yourself) which engage kids and boost their cognitive learning.\xe2\x80\x9cIn the larger context of children\xe2\x80\x99s growth and development, we felt that there is a huge open space where significant value can be created for children, parents and educators,\xe2\x80\x9d said Tendulkar, co-founder and CEO, Shirsa Labs. "Delhi-based education technology company Medhavi Professionals Services Pvt Ltd, which owns and operates online portal iDreamCareer.com (iDC), had raised an undisclosed sum in its second round of angel funding through ah! Ventures, with participation of Indian Designs Group and other investors.Eywa Media Innovations Pvt Ltd, a data analytics startup that provides digital signal processing solutions for broadcasters, has raised $1 million in seed funding from ah!