CRMnext, a leading global CRM (Customer relationship Management) product company with leadership in more than nine industry verticals, today announced a strategic investment from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). The fresh capital will be used to accelerate the company™s global outreach and fuel investments into its research and innovation portfolio. This move is part of the company™s vision to become one of the top five players in the global CRM space across industries changing the dynamics of the global market.

'We are focused on expanding our reach in the global market and this move will accelerate it. Even though we are a very profitable business, this funding will enable us to fuel investments into our research and innovation initiatives. All this will lead to further strengthening of our position as an enterprise class innovator in the CRM space, a space that has seen consolidation resulting in commoditization and has led to lack of real customer focused innovation' said Nishant Singh, CEO, CRMnext on the sidelines of the announcement.

CRMnext runs some of the largest CRM implementations in Asia Pacifc, Africa and Middle East regions. In India today, all the top 3 private banks such as ICICI Bank, AXIS Bank and HDFC Bank use CRMnext. In fact, it has to its credit the largest banking implementation in Asia at HDFC Bank with 40,000+ users across 3,000+ branches in 1,500+ cities. With CRMnext, these organizations have implemented global best practices in customer facing departments, thereby significantly improving their business performance.

Mohan Kumar, Executive Director, NVP India said, 'We are happy and excited to be partnering with CRMnext ' India™s leading CRM solution provider in the BFSI space. The company has built a very strong platform ' CRMnext ' that helps define business strategies by making sense of big data coming from various customer touch points. Traditional CRM systems do not engage customers or make use of analytics. We believe the CRM market is evolving and next generation CRM systems will be multi-channel, more vertically focused and have a heavier emphasis on customer engagement. At NVP we have invested in a variety of verticals including retail, healthcare and education, and with CRMNext, we found a great company doing the same in the BFSI space.'

CRMnext helps manage sales, marketing and customer service across the organization, enables seamless sharing of information by centralizing all customer data and processes. Other customers include thought leaders across various verticals like Pfizer, Max Life Insurance, TATA AIA, Reliance, CRISIL (S&P Co.), Fullerton Financials, Bajaj, IIFL etc.

CRMnext is the only product with a Commutable cloud TM platform, offering an extremely comprehensive private cloud solution. The platform brings flexibility, agility and automatic upgrades to the complex enterprise environments which incumbents have failed to serve. The company has been bestowed with some of the most prestigious awards such as, 'Most Promising Product Company' at CIO Review Asia 2014 &'Best CRM Technology Provider of Asia 2013' by World Finance. CRMnext is the flagship product of Acidaes Solutions Pvt. Ltd. which is a specialist customer relationship management product company, providing services to customers in the global market. In this transaction, Mumbai based boutique investment bank Zanskar Advisors was the exclusive financial advisor to Acidaes Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

About Norwest Venture Partners (NVP)

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a global, multi-stage venture and growth equity investment firm that has partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years. The firm manages approximately $5 billion in capital and has funded more than 550 companies since inception. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., NVP has subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India, and Herzelia, Israel. NVP makes early to late-stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including: technology, information services, business services, financial services, consumer products/services and healthcare. For more information visit: http://www.nvp.com.

About CRMnext

CRMnext is a leading global CRM solution. CRMnext has practice leadership in more than nine industry verticals where it works with companies to help them make most of their relationships with customers. Key vertical editions include Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Media, Pharmaceutical, Telecom, Entertainment, Energy, Manufacturing etc. CRMnext works closely with its customers, leveraging its extensive domain expertise to enhance their business efficiency by improving processes and practices. This combination of competency and commitment to results is the key to CRMnext™s success in the global market.

Acidaes Solutions

Founded in 2002, Acidaes Solutions is a specialist customer relationship management product company, providing services to customers in the global market. CRMnext is the flagship product, available on a commutable cloud model through a single code-base which provides companies with flexibility for their ownership model. The CRMnext team has a proven track record of delivering high impact CRM solutions with strong offerings in 09 verticals including Banking, Insurance, Financial Services, Pharma, Media, Telecom, Automobile, etc. It works very closely with its customers, leveraging its extensive domain expertise to enhance their business efficiency by improving processes and practices. This combination of competency and commitment to results are the key to its success in the global market. Today, CRMnext has to its credit thought leaders across verticals as its customers.