Infibeam in July 2015. Infibeam was founded in 2007 by Vishal Mehta, a Cornell and MIT Sloan alumnus. After working for Dell and Amazon.com in the US for five years, Mehta returned to India in 2007 and started Infibeam along with a group of Flipkart employees. He funded the company by selling his personal assets rather than opting for external equity funding. The company was started with an initial capital of 100-150 million. Infibeam.com started as an automobile portal in 2007, but later turned into an online retailer. In 2010, Infibeam launched 'Pi', India's first e-book reader. In 2008, Infibeam acquired
Gadzooks (retailer) Gadzooks (retailer) Gadzooks, Inc. was a mall-based teenage clothing retailer. It was acquired by Forever 21 in 2005 and then shut down. The company logo included the Volkswagen Beetle and all stores had a life-size version of part of a Beetle inside. The company was founded in 1983 as a T-shirt business by Jerry Szczepanski and Larry Titus. The first store was in Mesquite, Texas. By 1992, the company had 33 stores in Texas. In 1995, the company became a public company via an initial public offering and within 3 months, the share price quadrupled from $15 to $61. That