Gungroo, a company that claims to offer 'safe web presence' for kids, has announced the launch of its services in Alpha stage. The service is now open to any family that registers. Gungroo was founded in April, this year, by Dinker Charak, who was previously with Jivox. The company has raised funding of an undisclosed amount in an angel round and is looking at a Seed/Series A funding, in the near future. Features In its present form, Gungroo is essentially a regulated social networking and messaging tool for kids. An adult family member can register for a family account with full name, username, first password and a second password. The family member can then add up to three adult members by entering their email ids. To add members less than 16 years of age, the family member will have to select usernames and passwords for each. What's interesting is that parents can allow kids to sign-in only when they (admin) have logged in, however, parents can also chose to allow kids to login without their consent. Currently, Gungroo allows kids to communicate only within the family. However, Charak informed MediaNama that Gungroo plans to add Gmail integration within the portal by this month. Following the Gmail integration, parents will be able to attach their kid's GMail account to Gungroo. The kid will be able to read her/his emails on Gungroo and reply from Gungroo without the need to logging into Gmail. The advantage of this process is that the parent has an…
