Indiagames’ founder Vishal Gondal quits Disney; Sameer Ganapathy to head digital arm of Disney UTV

Vishal Gondal, managing director of the digital arm of Disney UTV, has put in his papers. Gondal, who is the founder and CEO of Indiagames, the country’s largest digital gaming firm (which was acquired by UTV and is now part of Walt Disney), has decided to leave the company to pursue entrepreneurs...

Sonam Gulati

Vishal Gondal-backed Examify goes live in public beta

Online exam preparation service Examify has gone live in public beta. Backed by angel investor Vishal Gondal, Examify was launched last year in December in closed beta. Gondal is also the mentor to the startup. Examify allows students to check out questions for any particular exam on the basis of fi...

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Walt Disney consolidates all digital biz in India; Vishal Gondal & Samir Bangara to co-head DisneyUTV Digital

Media giant The Walt Disney Company is consolidating all its digital media properties across platforms and content under a new entity in India called DisneyUTV Digital, which would be co-headed by Vishal Gondal and Samir Bangara. Gondal is the founder & chief executive of Indiagames while Bangar...

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Rafat Ali’s travel media company Skift gets $500K from Vishal Gondal, Sanjay Parthasarathy, others

Skift, a New York-based travel intelligence media company that offers news, insight, data, tools and services to the travel industry, has raised $500,000 from over a dozen angel investors which include Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal and former Microsoft executive Sanjay Parthasarathy. Skift is fou...

Sonam Gulati

Employment portal OnContract.com raises funding from Vishal Gondal, Ronnie Screwvala

Employment portal OnContract.com, which started operations just a little more than a year back, has secured undisclosed funding from Ronnie Screwvala promoted investment firm Unilazer and Vishal Gondal promoted investment firm Fact. This is the second round of funding for OnContract (earlier known a...

Anand Rai, Nandana Das & Sonam Gulati

Digirati: Top 25 powerful people in Indian digital business

They provide smart insights into hot trends and create strategies that redefine businesses. They innovate opportunities for themselves and others – writing some success stories that inspire awe. Meet the homegrown Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerbergs and Warren Buffetts who have made waves in the digital ...

Anand Rai

Ra.One Genesis Mobile Game Crosses 2.5 Million Downloads

The Ra.One Genesis mobile game has crossed the 2.5 million downloads mark on the Nokia store, according to Vishal Gondal, founder & CEO of Indiagames Ltd. We could not immediately verify this number, but we take this as an official number. The news was first tweeted on the microblogging site Twi...

Preethi J

Disney-Indiagames Deal- A New Benchmark In The Indian Gaming Industry

It may appear puny sized compared to transactions across other industries, but with Disney-backed UTV Software acquiring further 30 per cent in the country’s largest digital gaming firm Indiagames, it is one of the biggest deals in the business. Techcircle.in takes an in-depth look at the deal in ...

Preethi J

Create Innovative Games, Not The 150th Farm Game: Vishal Gondal, CEO, IndiaGames

Vishal Gondal is the head of media and entertainment group UTV’s gaming subsidiary IndiaGames, which is also one of India’s largest game developers. IndiaGames posted a net profit of Rs 2.47 crore in the fiscal year ended March, 2011, on the back of high traction in mobile gaming and online sub...