Using seed money from his father, Rao obtained a bank loan to purchase a computer and a 14.4 kbps modem, and founded his company in Bangalore on 15 March 1995 as a one-person operation.
[2] In February of that year, Intel approached Rao's company to develop a rendering engine for the manufacturer's new Pentium II chip.
In the search for clients in the United States and Europe, Dhruva Interactive released the game demo Saloon in March 2001.
As the team had never seen a saloon before, they sought references via the emerging Google Search, a technique they would continue to employ to understand certain parts of Western culture.
[1][6] In May 2019, a financially stricken Starbreeze agreed to sell its stake in Dhruva Interactive, now at 91.82%, to the American publisher Rockstar Games for $7.9 million.