Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Seed

Akshat Rathee is a serial-entrepreneur and the Managing Director of NODWIN Gaming, a venture by the NODWIN Group of Companies.

NODWIN Gaming is the premier and most recognized esports company in India. It has played a pivotal role in developing the Indian esports scene in the country by playing an instrumental role in popularizing competitive gaming through its exclusive license partnerships with ESL and ESWC. NODWIN Gaming works actively to run other marquee esports IPs such as the Mountain Dew Arena, The CII India Gaming Show among others.

NODWIN Gaming additionally produces online content on gaming and esports such as Esports Center, The Games & Gadget Show, The Cosplay Genie Show and Live content from pop culture events in India as well as abroad.

Better known in the gaming community by his gaming nick “LordNOD”, Akshat has been an ardent gamer since his early school days. In fact, his gaming nick was inspired by his excellence as the NOD faction in the 2000s RTS game, Command and Conquer. Over the years, his love for strategy genre games grew and he lists titles such as Sid Meier’s Civilization, StarCraft, XCOM and Red Alert as his influences. It can be said that these challenging games moulded Akshat into a better strategian and the skills he imbibed helps him greatly in business development.

Akshat graduated from the Manipal Institute of Technology with a Bachelors in Engineering (Computers). He also holds an MBA in International Business from Ecole des Ponts, France. He boasts of over 18 years of experience in the fields of entrepreneurship, business consultancy and strategy.