Salesken, a Bengaluru, India-based Sales conversation Artificial Intelligence startup, raised $22 million in a Series B.

The round was led by M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund. Abhi Kumar, Partner at M12, will be the new member of the board at Salesken. Existing investor Sequoia India also participated in the latest round of funding.

The funds will be used to accelerate expansion into the North American market and invest further into their proprietary deep tech product.

Company: iStar Skill Development Pvt Limited.

Raised: $22.0M

Round: Series B

Funding Month: November 2021

Lead Investors: M12

Additional Investors: Sequoia

Company Website: https://salesken.ai/

Software Category: In-call live sales platform

About the Company: Founded in 2018 by Surga Thilakan and Sreeraman Vaidyanathan, Salesken is an in-call live sales platform that improves the revenue per rep by developing insights on gaps in their sales calls and bridging the gap with real-time cues to the sales reps. Salesken gives you insights and intelligence for every customer interaction. Salesken's launched commercial operations in January 2020. The start-up is headquartered in Bengaluru and has operations in Delaware, US.

Source: https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/salesken-raises-22-million-in-series-b-funding-from-microsoft-sequoia-313018-2021-11-22