CarDekho recently launched ‘Feel the Car,’ with which a consumer gets immersive experience of car to help in decision making.
Girnar Soft, the parent company of CarDekho.com, Zigwheels.com and Gaadi.com, recently announced the acquisition of Drishya360s Software in a cash-plus-stock deal. With the deal, all employees of Drishya360s will join Girnar Soft.
Founded in 2010 by Shashanka Adiga, Drishya360s is a premier photography and video production, augmented reality, virtual reality, and web-designing and hosting firm. With the acquisition, Girnar Soft will build interactive virtual reality technology and augmented reality platform for CarDekho, Gaadi, BikeDekho, among others. Additionally, Girnar Soft will also leverage Adiga and his team’s experience to develop online and offline advertising solutions.
Adiga will report to Girnar Soft’s Director-Strategy Rahul Yadav.
Speaking on the acquisition, Yadav, said, “The acquisition of Drishya360s is a step in our long-term growth strategy and enables us to develop interactive virtual reality solutions for our portals.”
With companies such as CarDekho.com, BikeDekho.com, ZigWheels.com and TruckDekho.com under its banner, Girnar Soft has been working on developing virtual and augmented reality solutions to take user experience to another level. CarDekho recently launched ‘Feel the Car,’ with which a consumer gets immersive experience of car to help in decision making.
Drishya360s is the fourth startup acquired by Girnar Soft in the last 18 months. Earlier it acquired Gaadi.com, Zigwheels.com, and BuyingIQ.