Kannan Narayanaswamy's Page

- over two decades experience in funding, investing, incubating and starting small industry.
- was among the first to raise venture capital funds for the Indian IT industry way back in 1992, as part of Creditcapital Venture Fund (India) Ltd. (CVF) in Delhi & Bangalore. CVF was part of the Lazards Creditcapital Investment Banking Group, an associate of Lazards in India,
- subsequently helped create a start-up VC Fund, the Sterling Technology & Venture Corporation (STVC).
- last corporate assignment was with Polaris Software Lab. Ltd (6 years), handling a suite of Risk Management Products for the banking and the financial services sector and rose to a position of Vice President; handling M&A's, divestitures, incubations as well as internal process monitoring.
- incubated a technology company, as an interim CEO, in a telecom software product development start-up, a Joint Venture of Polaris and the TeNet Group of IIT Madras.
- was a regular contributor to industry magazines like Dataquest, a leading computer fortnightly from Cyber Media Ltd.; and Business Line, a business newspaper from the house of The Hindu, Madras; addressing issues in the Indian software industry.
- taught management courses for senior executives in the School of Management, Osmania University.
- conducted seminars on Venture Capital for banks, financial institutions and universities – including IIM, Ahmedabad.
- Currently advise startups on scale-up and VC's in value investing.