Naganand Doraswamy

Founder and Managing Partner, Ideaspring Capital

Naganand Doraswamy is an entrepreneur turned investor with extensive experience in management and technology. He is a successful entrepreneur and is well networked in the community. He has over 35 years of experience in the industry and has held several leadership roles.

Naganand founded Ideaspring capital in 2016 to invest in very early stage product innovation companies. In addition to funding, the fund has a unique program “startup assist” that provides key interventions to increase focus on customer and product management. Ideaspring has invested in  31 companies.

At SPAN, as a Co-Founder and EVP, Naganand contributed to engineering in R&D and development as well as operations including HR, IT, and operations. In addition co-managing the engineering team, he is also focused on building a business unit in the area on data and wireless networking. He is also actively contributing to the strategy and growth of the company. SPAN was acquired by a Norwegian company.

Prior to joining SPAN, Naganand was co-founder of Lexar Networks, MA, USA working on an idea in cellular and Wi-Fi convergence. Prior to that, he was the Director of Software at PhotonEx Corporation, MA, USA where he built carrier class software for long haul transmission systems. He was one of the very early hire into the company that raised over $160 million in funding.

Naganand is a published author. He co-authored a book on IPSecurity titled “IPSec: The new security standard for the Internet, Intranets, and Virtual Private Networks,” published by Prentice Hall. As an active participant in IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) he was the chair of IP Compression Working group and chaired “Birds Of a Feather” forums (BOF’s) on VPNs.  He has been awarded 8 patents and 2 patents are pending in the area of networking and security.  He has 11 technical publications published in journals and conferences, has given numerous workshops at the Networld+Interop, and has been on various technical panels.

Naganand is an invited speaker in various panels and conferences. He was the President of TiE Bangalore, and was on board of TiE Global trustees. He is on various committees related to entrepreneurship and Investments at NASSCOM, FICCI and Government of Karnataka. He is also an Adjunct Faculty at “The Takshashila Institution” helping them with policies related to Technology.