Vishal gondal–father of indian games

Quick Note

Born : 14 july 1976

Occupation : Enterprenuer,Venture Capitalist

Fames : CEO GOQii,ex CEO india games

Hometown : Mumbai,india

About

Vishal Gondal born 14 July 1976 is an Indian entrepreneur and seed investor He is the founder and CEO of GOQii Gondal founded the game development and publishing company Indiagames, which he sold to DisneyUTV Digital,a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India, in 2011. He briefly served as the Managing Director of Digital division of The Walt Disney Company India from September 2012 to June 2013. On 4 September 2020, Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar announced the planned release of FAU-G, a game developed by Bengaluru-headquartered nCORE Games, under Vishal Gondal, which is going to release soon.

History

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 Angeles Gondal sold a majority stake (76.29% of the company) to TOM online Games, a subsidiary of TOM Online Inc, in 2009 and retained his position as CEO.At the time of acquisition, Indiagames was making an approximate profit of $400,000 on revenues of $11 million.

Other

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

Awards

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 2019, "Entrepreneur Magazine" awarded Gondal Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

FAU-G

Fearless and United Guards (popularly abbreviated as FAU-G) is an upcoming online multiplayer action game being developed by Bengaluru headquartered nCore Games. The game has recorded the highest number of pre-registrations in less than 24 hours on the Play Store in India.

Akshay Kumar and Vishal Gondal, the promoter of the game, announced that 20% of the net revenue generated from the game would be donated to Bharat Ke Veer trust.

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