Vishal Gondal


Vishal Gondal is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the founder and CEO of GOQii, and previously founded the game development and publishing company Indiagames, which he sold to DisneyUTV Digital, The Walt Disney Company in 2011 for $100 million after which he briefly served as the Managing Director of Digital division of The Walt Disney Company from September 2012 to June 2013.

History

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 Angeles. Gondal sold a majority stake to TOM online Games, a subsidiary of TOM Online Inc, in 2009 and retained his position as CEO. 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 Pvt. Ltd. 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.

Awards