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LoveDoctor uses web, SMS and WhatsApp platforms to provide counselling and has answered over 50,000 questions from young people aged 16-25

Sheroes.in, an online community for jobs and careers for women in India, has acquired LoveDoctor.in — an online platform for love, relationship and sexual health counselling. With this deal, Sheroes aims to broaden the type of support and community offered to its over 800,000 members.

As per the agreement, LoveDoctor.in Founder and CEO Avani Parekh will join Sheroes as Director of Community and Empathy with a goal of making Sheroes a one-stop shop for women around the world to build their careers, find supportive community, level up their skill sets, and explore new possibilities for their lives beyond the workday.

Avani’s focus will be to build the career helpline #AskMonica, and create a platform where women can get any type of counselling and guidance in an empathetic, expert manner. Lovedoctor.in will continue to provide counselling via WhatsApp and email during the transition.

SheroesSheroes Founder Sairee Chahal said: “Sheroes already has a strong community and has become a reference point for all things women and careers. Having LoveDoctor on board will help us strengthen the relationship with community, by offering them deeper support and connect”

“Sheroes already offers mentoring and career helpline support to its community and this will integrate with those efforts. Women need to navigate several issues, as they navigate their work and life and having LoveDoctor become part of the Sheroes family will help us address those needs. It is a good time to put women’s needs and aspirations on nation building map,” she added.

LoveDoctor.in has been operating for over two years via web-based chat, SMS and WhatsApp. It has answered over 50,000 questions from young people aged 16-25 across the world. Its key focus markets are India, East Africa and Southeast Asia.

Said Parekh: “Joining forces with Sheroes allows LoveDoctor to bring essential counselling to hundreds of thousands of women. I hope that through this merger women feel safe, supported, and heard every single day through our counselling and other support channels. No one should feel alone. While the men have always used Lovedoctor.in frequently, we know that women have questions about love, relationships and sex too – but are shy, scared, or fear retaliation if they ask.”

Sheroes is a career destination for women in India. It offers a large ‘OpportunityScape’ for women seeking options at various life stages. The portal offers a diverse range of engagement formats to women, including corporate jobs, returning professionals programmes, partner programmes, work from home jobs, part-time work, freelancing, franchising, mompreneur programmes and internship programmes.

It partners actively with the startup ecosystem to enhance entrepreneurial connect to women. The Sheroes community has access to high-growth career resources, mentorship and support. It engages with businesses to help them connect with female talent in the form of employees, partners, customers and business owners.

It has members from over 20,000 locations, and over 12,000 companies actively use the platform. It also runs a career support helpline via phone and app.

Last month, Sheroes raised US$1.8 million in Series A round of funding led by Lumis Partners. Previously, it had raised angel funding from 500 Startups and Quintillion Media. Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Google India Chief Rajan Anandan, Flipkart Co-founder Binny Bansal and the then Chief People Officer Mekin Maheshwari, Freshdesk CEO Girish Mathrubhootham, Oracle’s Indus Khaitan and Capillary Technologies Founder Krishna Mehra had also participated in the round.

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