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Vishal Gondal Edit Profile

entrepreneur

Vishal Gondal is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor.

Education

University of Mumbai.

Career

Indiagames

In 1999, Gondal founded Indiagames, a video game development and publishing company. By 2009 the company had approximately 300 employees and offices in Mumbai, Beijing, London and Los Los Angeles Gondal sold a majority of stakeholds (adding up to 7629% of the company) to TOM online Games, a subsidiary of TOM Online Incorporated, in 2009 and retained his position as Chief Executive Officer. In 2011, Indiagames was acquired by Disney for around $100m.

At the time of acquisition, Indiagames was making an approximate profit of $400,000 on revenues of $11 million.

Other activities

In 2008, Gondal launched Sweat and Blood Venture group to invest in startups at a seed level The organization has invested in Instablogs and Docsuggest, among others

In August 2012, The Walt Disney Company India Private Limited. restructured its digital assets under a new division, DisneyUTV Digital, with Vishal Gondal as its managing director

In March 2014, Gondal launched GOQii, a fitness technology company based in Menlo Park, California.

Gondal has presented at the INK Conferences in Mumbai.

Achievements

  • In 2005 Mobile Entertainment magazine listed Gondal as listed as one of the top 50 executives in the mobile content space. In 2005 Indiagames was listed by Red Herring among Asia"s Top 100 companies. In 2012 techcircle.in included Gondal in a list of the top 25 powerful people in Indian digital business.