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The UpstreamLifeIndia's fastest growing chronic pain management device, the journey of Litemed and its foundersIn this episode Naganand Doraswamy of Ideaspring Capital talks to Litemed founders about pain management devices and their efficacy.00:00 - Introduction to Litemed 00:33 - What does Litemed do?02:58 - Building a device for pain management and the science of it.08:14 - Litemed's go-to-market strategy.12:39 - Innovative marketing of Litemed.15:50 - Marketing spends and getting people to buy the product.19:23 - Using Litemed.21:00 - Key challenges of the startup.26:13 - Figuring out the market as you scale.Thanks for Listening! Follow Us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, L...2025-07-1228 min
The UpstreamLifeNumocity - India's leading EV network management startup wins big with global contractsIn this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with the founders of Numocity.Ideaspring's founder Naganand Doraswamy talks to the Numocity founders Ravi and Siddharth about their global play.00:00 - Introduction00:52 - From early stage to success.02:50 - EV is mainstream.06:02 - EV market in five years.10:22 - Robustness of the Numocity tech stack15:20 - Being a globally recognised brand. 20:08 - Deep research in the EV market25:08 - Markets that will be big in EVThanks for Listening! Follow Us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn o...2025-05-1930 min
UVCE Chronicles🎙 UVCE Chronicles S6 E1 – "The Mind Behind Multiple Startups"Greetings from UVCE Chronicles!Kicking off Season 6, we feature Suryaprakash Konanuru, a serial entrepreneur, mentor, and the CTO at Ideaspring Capital. An alumnus of UVCE (CSE, Batch of ’88), Suri has co-founded three startups, led engineering teams globally, and played a key role in India’s startup ecosystem for over two decades.Hosted by Keshava Karthik (6th Sem, ISE), this episode covers:🚀 Building startups across domains like networking, healthcare, and education.💼 Navigating career transitions from Wipro to entrepreneurship to venture capital.🧠 Cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset & the...2025-05-1843 min
The UpstreamLifeOkulo Aerospace, a use case for made-in-India HAPS drones - in-conversation with Ideaspring CapitalIn this episode we have Naganand Doraswamy, the founder of Ideaspring Capital who interviews Parithi Govindaraju about the future of made-in-India drones and the technology that powers them. Parithi comes from the field of deep science and his interest in aerospace has enabled him to build Okulo Aerospace to capture the High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite space. He has thoughts on long-endurance drones and you will love this podcast because the government of India has launched a deep tech fund and has increased the size of funding for startups through the fund-of-funds program.00:30 - Introduction to Parithi o...2025-02-0727 min
TheOnePointClimateTech Fundraising in IndiaHow to successfully fundraise for a ClimateTech startup in India!?
Get ready to uncover the answers to this key topic and explore many other insights in this episode of TheOnePoint podcast with Parithi Govindaraju from Okulo Aerospace.
ClimateTech startups are tackling challenges essential for humanity's survival. But for founders in this space, the road is anything but easy.
From the struggles of early-stage fundraising to the unique challenges of innovating in a field driven by physical solutions (Atoms) rather than just digital ones (Bits), ClimateTech founders often face a steep...2025-01-1245 min
businessline's State of the Economy PodcastWhat’s holding back India’s deep tech start-ups from going global?In this State of the Economy podcast, businessline’s Sanjana B talks to Abilash Soundararajan, Founder & CEO, Privasapien, Aditi Balbir, Founder, EcoRatings, Naganand Doraswamy - Managing Partner & Founder, Ideaspring Capital and Ramkumar Narayan, Immediate past chair, nasscom Deeptech council, about the specific hurdles deep tech start-ups encounters when attempting to expand into international markets, from navigating regulatory landscapes to establishing credibility with global investors. The discussion starts off by sharing insights on how deep tech start-ups can better position themselves to secure global investments and scale their businesses internationally. The panel discusses how India’s deep te...2024-11-1132 min
Forbes India - The Startup Fridays PodcastStartup Fridays S5 Ep10: Ideaspring’s partners on backing the next-gen deep techs in IndiaIn this episode, Naganand Doraswamy and Suryaprakash Konanuru, co-founders Ideaspring Capital, talk about their enthusiasm for India’s early-stage deep tech startups. The two talk about how, while these startups are part of a nascent ecosystem, they are developing products that are sometimes coming to the fore for the first time anywhere. Doraswamy, who’s more involved with the commercial aspects and Konanuru, a full-time CTO and products mentor for the VC firm’s portfolio of startups are in the very early stage of raising their third fund.2024-10-251h 03
1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast646th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Naganand Doraswamy, Ideaspring Capital - 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast
Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner and Founder at Ideaspring Capital, discusses how he is thinking about investing in AI. There’s a lot of confusion around AI right now. The hype is astronomical. Amidst this noisy environment, we’re trying to bring you some signal, some wisdom.
2024-07-1948 min
The UpstreamLifeJourney of product innovation in India through the eyes of Naganand Doraswamy of Ideaspring CapitalIn this episode we talk with Naganand Doraswamy the founder of Ideaspring Capital. He has been a champion of product innovation and deep tech in India for over eight years now. He talks about his journey and learning. He also believes that the deep tech India story has just begun and tells every founder to focus on the sales for success.00:00 - Introduction to Ideaspring02:00 - Differentiating between SaaS, deep tech and product innovation05:20 - Raising capital today and the journey of Ideaspring11:28 - Convincing LPs and the learning17:04 - Helping founders to...2024-06-0355 min
UVCE ChroniclesS4 E9: Innovation Architect
Greetings!UVCE Chronicles is back with another exciting episode!S4 E9: Innovation ArchitectNaganad Doraswamy is a seasoned entrepreneur and a VC having founded multiple start-ups and investing in start-ups too. From UVCE's first computer science batch of 1987 he went on to work in PSI, post which he pursued a master's degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, USA. After getting immense exposure in the world of techonology in the Boston Area, MA he started his exciting venture of start-ups. At present he is the founder of Ideaspring Capital that funds and actively supports product innovation...2024-04-2037 min
India Startup TalkEpisode 14: GTM Conversations with Ideaspring Capital Founder Naganand DoraswamyA refreshing perspective on GTM from Naganand Doraswamy, founder of Ideaspring Capital, one of the rare VC firms in India who are backing Early Stage Tech Startups. Listen to his thoughts on what it takes to develop a sales strategy in the initial phases of a technology startup. A highly successful past entrepreneur from the US, he feels that rather than creating another startup, why not help start several more as an "hands on" investor. If you are a tech startup, learn more about Ideaspring Capital at https://www.ideaspringcap.com/. You can also reach out to him at...2022-04-2032 min1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast562nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Naganand Doraswamy, Ideaspring Capital - 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast
Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner and Founder at Ideaspring Capital, adds to our thesis on great investment opportunities within the sub $100 million exit space.
2022-02-2125 min
Ideaspring CapitalA talk on Sales Technology, its evolution and use of AI in SalesThis time on the Ideaspring Capital Podcast, catch Suryaprakash Konanuru, CTO at Ideaspring Capital and Sridhar Ranganathan, CEO at B2Brain, chat about Sales Technology, its evolution and use of AI in modern-day sales. Up your knowledge on everything sales with this insightful podcast.
Sridhar Ranganathan, the co-founder and CEO of B2Brain, loves building products that help people effectively spend their time and effort. He and his long-time friend, Karthik, used this as the inspiration to build B2Brain.
If you liked this episode, please subscribe to the...2021-10-1148 minIdeaspring CapitalAI on the EdgeThis conversation is between Suryaprakash Konanuru, CTO, Ideaspring Capital and Prasad Panchangam, Founder & CEO, Saigeware Technologies.
Prasad is a technologist and entrepreneur with over 24 years of experience in systems architecture, semiconductor devices, multimedia, security & cloud computing. He’s worked at HP, Microsoft, Vivaty, AppliedMicro over his career before starting up.
In this episode, they discuss:
- what is AI on the edge
- the advantages of AI edge computing
- which industries have seen the fastest adoption of A...2021-10-1118 minIdeaspring CapitalBuilding and Scaling Enterprise Sales in IndiaThis conversation is between Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Director & Founder of Ideaspring Capital and Vishal Khare, Co-Founder, Executive VP & GM Sales of Lavelle Networks.
Vishal, a former Director at Citrix, has immense business management experience in networking, cloud, on-premise software, hardware & SAAS. In 2018, he joined Lavelle which offers software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) platforms for enterprise networks.
In this episode, they discuss Lavelle's journey in enterprise sales, how should an early stage enterprise startup identify the right audience for its product, the importance of a defined sales process...2021-10-1137 minIdeaspring CapitalDisrupting Bottlenecks In The $300 B Automotive Electronics IndustryThis conversation is between Dipanjan Gope, founder and CEO of SimYog Technology and Suryaprakash Konanuru, CTO at Ideaspring Capital.
Dipanjan, a PhD in electrical engineering, is an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, where he founded SimYog, which offers system-level design and sign-off tools for automotive electronics, a 300 billion dollar industry annually, which sees billions lost every year due to inefficiencies in design, prototyping, and testing.
Over a century ago, Henry Ford’s Model T transformed the automobile industry with mass-produced cars that even the mi...2021-10-1117 minIdeaspring CapitalThe Future of Automation and AIIn this episode, the conversation revolves around the fundamental difference between automation and AI-based automation, the industries being impacted, how it transforms the economics of enterprises, major advancements in cognitive modeling, and a whole lot more.
This conversation is between Deepak Agrawal, AVP at Ideaspring Capital and Kamesh Raghavendra, Chief Product Officer at The Hive.
A Goldman Sachs and IIT Madras alum, Kamesh works with entrepreneurs to address market segments in areas such as the Internet of Things, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, blockchain, de-centralized apps, and financial services.2021-10-1145 minIdeaspring CapitalUsing Behavioral Science and AI to Improve Human ProductivityIn the episode, we discuss the role of AI in employee performance, how these AI systems work, their impact, the role of data in such systems, the response of the enterprise market, the future growth in this industry and a whole lot more.
This conversation is between Deepak Agrawal, Associate Vice-President of Ideaspring Capital and Ramesh Srinivas, Co-Founder & CEO of worxogo.
With over 25 years of industry and consulting experience, Ramesh led large IT transformation programs. He has been a partner at PwC, IBM and KPMG.
2021-10-1131 minIdeaspring CapitalIndia's Journey To Becoming An Enterprise Product NationThis conversation is between Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Director & Founder of Ideaspring Capital and Sharad Sharma, an angel investor, a passionate evangelist of the software product ecosystem in India & co-founder of the iSPIRT Foundation.
He has held a number of senior executive positions with leading technology companies. Most recently he was a senior vice-president at Yahoo! and CEO of their India R&D
In this episode, they discuss why startups should think global from day one, the challenges of building products for global scale from India, the...2021-10-1135 minIdeaspring CapitalSales for B2B Product StartupsThis conversation is between Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Director & Founder of Ideaspring Capital and Shoaib Ahmed, founder of Catalystor, an enterprise with the intent to make technology effective for businesses.
Having founded multiple successful startups, Shoaib was most recently the President of Tally Solutions, the leading Indian Financial ERP system with over 1 million clients and a worldwide presence in 100 countries.
In this episode, they discuss founder-led sales & how founders should approach sales initially, if selling to small, medium & large enterprises need different approaches initially, how founders should...2021-10-1141 minIdeaspring CapitalRaising Money as an Enterprise Product Startup in IndiaThe Ideaspring Capital podcast is a show where we discuss the latest trends in technology, startups and tech entrepreneurship in India.
This episode is a conversation with Arihant Patni, Managing Director at Ideaspring Capital.
Since selling Patni Computer Systems for over a billion dollars, he has been an active angel investor in close to a hundred startups over the last eight years. He is also the Managing Director at The Hive, India, a fund investing in Industrial IoT and Big Data.
In addition, he...2021-10-1127 minIdeaspring CapitalAll About Enterprise Product ManagementThis episode is a conversation between Ramkumar Narayanan, VP of Technology & Managing Site Director at VMware and Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner at Ideaspring Capital.
Prior to joining VMware, Ram served in global leadership positions at eBay, Yahoo! and Microsoft where he focused on data driven, digital product innovation spanning consumer and enterprise markets. He has vast experience in product development, management and marketing.
In this episode, we traverse the length and breadth of product management - what it involves, the role of a product manager in an early...2021-10-1133 minIdeaspring CapitalThe Evolution of Enterprise Product Innovation in IndiaIn this episode, Naganand Doraswamy, the Managing Partner of Ideaspring Capital, talks about the evolution of enterprise product innovation in India and where it's headed.
This conversation covers answers to questions ranging from specific industries where innovation has seen greater traction to what is important to further innovation in the enterprise product space in India and a whole lot more.
If you liked this episode, please subscribe to the show. You can also get in touch with us on Twitter at twitter.com/IdeaspringCap or visit our website at...2021-10-1116 minIdeaspring CapitalThe Current State of the Internet of Things (IoT)This conversation is about the state of the Internet of Things and we’re joined by Deepak Agrawal, AVP at Ideaspring Capital and Derick Jose, co-founder and CTO of Flutura, which is in the industrial IOT intelligence space & specialises in decision analytics for the energy and engineering sector.
We cover everything from the current state of IoT, interesting use cases, different business models that power IoT, privacy and security of the data generated by IoT enabled devices and a whole lot more.
If you liked this episode, please su...2021-10-1119 minIdeaspring CapitalAugmented Reality (AR) as a ServiceThis conversation is between Ideaspring Capital’s CTO, Suryaprakash Konanuru, and Sriram Ganesh, the founder and CEO of Whodat, an augmented reality platform company that works on tools to help developers create AR apps easily.
We cover how the AR technology and market have changed, the difference between marker and markerless AR, enterprise centric AR apps, AR as a service and a whole lot more.
If you liked this episode, please subscribe to the show. You can also get in touch with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/IdeaspringCap or...2021-10-1118 minIdeaspring CapitalProduct Market Fit and Go-To Market Strategies for Enterprise StartupsThis conversation is between Naganand Doraswamy, the Managing Partner of Ideaspring Capital and Sanjay Anandaram, a Venture Partner with Seed Fund. It is all about how enterprise startups can find product market fit and go to market. They also cover sales and marketing strategies, how to effectively use customer feedback, and a whole lot more.2021-10-1132 min1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast189th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Arihant Patni, Ideaspring Capital - 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship PodcastArihant Patni is Managing Director at Ideaspring Capital, a fund focused on enterprise companies born in India and selling to the global market.
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