[Funding] Clientjoy Raises USD 800K Pre-Series A Funding From GVFL

Clientjoy is a SaaS platform from Ahemdabad. The startup, recently, has raised USD 800k in Series A funding from GVFL. GVFL or Gujarat Venture Finance Limited is an early-stage venture capital firm. Clientjoy, launched in 2019, offers Client Life-Cycle Management Software for modern agencies, services companies and freelancers. It helps them manage Leads, Proposals, Clients, Invoicing and Revenues under a single roof.

In its initial journey, angel investors and CIIE funded and supported the company. CIIE is IIM Ahemdabad startup incubator. Currently, Clientjoy serves over 1900 Agencies in Digital Marketing, IT-Service and Design Agency. It also has various verticals across the US, India, Europe, Australia and South-east Asia. The startup will use this investment to grow the company’s sales, marketing and engineering to expand its product offering.

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Speaking on the announcement, Mr Yash Shah, co-founder & CEO, Clientjoy said, “At Clientjoy we are excited about the funding from GVFL – it comes at a time when we are looking to scale and grow. Today, Agencies & freelancers have to devote significant time and resources just to manage clients, since client management happens across multiple tools and platforms and. They have no idea about either the bottlenecks or growth enablers. This is because most of the data is not captured and even that which is, is spread across various platforms. Clientjoy addresses and solves this issue.”

Early investor and Board Member at CIIE, Chintan Antani, said, “As early investors, we at CIIE have seen Yash & his team grow over the years & establish Clientjoy (earlier known as Gridle) in the market, through sustained efforts on product development and customer engagement. Given the pandemic, recent developments in the SaaS for productivity & client management tools market have been encouraging and Clientjoy is at an inflexion point in their journey. Their unique blend of team experience with a razor-sharp focus on customer problems would help them capture a decent market going forward. We wish them the best.”

Reinforcing the view, Mr Mihir Joshi (President, GVFL) remarked his partnership with Clientjoy. "It has been at the forefront of digital SaaS workflow management tools for enterprises, freelancers and agencies. Over the years, the team has shown remarkable innovation in onboarding marquee clients both in India and abroad. Businesses are also realising the importance and functionality of digital enterprise collaboration in the current crisis of Covid-19. We expect that client management tools and platforms like Clientjoy to play an even bigger role in organisations post this current crisis and businesses to become more open for digital enterprise collaboration."