Where does Vijay Ganesan work?

Vijay Ganesan is Founder of NetSpring.

What companies did Vijay Ganesan found?

Vijay Ganesan founded NetSpring.

Where did Vijay Ganesan go to school?

Vijay Ganesan studied at North Carolina State University (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (incomplete), Operations Research); North Carolina State University (Master's degree, Electrical Engineering); Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering).

Vijay Ganesan

Founder

Founder at NetSpring

Saratoga, California, United States

FoundedNetSpring

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About

Vijay Ganesan works in product at Snowflake and co-founded NetSpring.io and ThoughtSpot. His work focuses on enterprise software in data analytics, business intelligence, data science, cloud, and AI, spanning engineering, design, and product management functions.

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NetSpring's investors · 3

Dell Technologies CapitalPalo Alto · $500K – $50M checks · since 2021 Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks · since 2021 Wipro VenturesBengaluru · $1M – $10M checks · since 2021

Experience

SnowflakeProduct @ Snowflakecurrent2025 — present
Various StartupsAdvisor, Investorcurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
OptimizelySVP, GM Analytics2024 — 2025
NetSpring.io (acquired by Optimizely)Co-Founder and CEO2019 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
ThoughtSpotCo-Founder, VP Product Management2016 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
ThoughtSpotCo-Founder, Principal2012 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
OracleArchitect, Business Intelligence2005 — 2012San Francisco Bay Area
OracleArchitect, PeopleTools Reporting and Analytics, PeopleSoft2004 — 2005San Francisco Bay Area
i2 TechnologiesAdvanced Member of Technical Staff, Aspect Development (acquired by i2 Technologies)1999 — 2004San Francisco Bay Area
SiemensTechnical Team Lead1994 — 1999Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
DESGI Inc.Software Engineer and Founding Architect1992 — 1994San Francisco Bay Area

Skills & more

Business Intelligence43Distributed Systems28Analytics20Big Data16Architecture14Algorithms13Mobile Applications6Data Warehousing3Computer Science2Mathematical Modeling2Operations Research2Data Mining2

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Who is Vijay Ganesan?: Vijay Ganesan works in product at Snowflake and co-founded NetSpring.io and ThoughtSpot. His work focuses on enterprise software in data analytics, business intelligence, data science, cloud, and AI, spanning engineering, design, and product management functions.
Where does Vijay Ganesan work?: Vijay Ganesan is Founder of NetSpring.
What companies did Vijay Ganesan found?: Vijay Ganesan founded NetSpring.
Where did Vijay Ganesan go to school?: Vijay Ganesan studied at North Carolina State University (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (incomplete), Operations Research); North Carolina State University (Master's degree, Electrical Engineering); Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering).

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North Carolina State University mafia78

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Optimizely mafia16

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Patrick J. CostelloSenior Director, Product ManagementFounded Naytev +1 Dan SirokerCo-founder and former Chief Executive OfficerFounded Limitless +1 Zack LiscioSenior Director of Product StrategyFounded Cloud Capital +1 Asa SchacharEngineering ManagerFounded Voicepanel +1 Darwish GaniProduct ManagerFounded Openborder +1 Ed BarrowStrategic AdvisorFounded Cloud Capital

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National Public School mafia14

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Srinivas SarkarCBSEFounded Coupl +1 Akash AnandHigh School (Class 8-11)Founded Desklamp +1 Prajwal PrakashHigh School DiplomaFounded Desklamp +1 Ashwin JainarayananHigh SchoolFounded Granza Bio Aria VikramHigh School DiplomaFounded Conviction Janak SunilFounded Specific Labs

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ThoughtSpot mafia10

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Aditya ViswanathanSoftware EngineerFounded Mando +1 Robert RossSoftware EngineerFounded Lume Kaushik SrinivasanMember Of Technical StaffFounded compliant-llm Shivam SinghalSoftware Engineering InternFounded Structured Labs Akshay MegharajStaff EngineerFounded Wuri Robert HouSoftware EngineerFounded Alchemize

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Eric WagnerVP of Research and Data at Redpoint Ventures Taylor AutenGeneral Counsel at Echo Health Ventures Brent BlakeVenture Partner at TFX Capital Bill NusseyPartner at Tech Square Ventures Steve AngelAdvisor at Industrious Ventures Melissa WhitingAssistant Controller at Red Cell Incubation

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Aravind SrinivasCo-founder & CEO of Perplexity AI Sundeep PeechuGeneral Partner at Felicis Ventures Rajesh SwaminathanInvestor at Khosla Ventures Ashok SanthanamManaging Director at Copper Sky Capital Hanyang WangDirector at Qualcomm Ventures AparnaAdvisor at NewBuild.VC

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Also attended National Public School20

Adarsh MenonPartner at Fireside Ventures Advisory Llp Vinod JosephInvestor at Samsung Next Kaushik RamInvestments at Yali Capital Vedant AgrawalInvestor at Premji Invest Kartik PrabhakaraInvestor at Aream & Co.Srinivas SarkarFounder at Coupl

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Shared employers

Also worked at Optimizely36

Peter FentonGeneral Partner at Benchmark Travis BryantSales Leadership at Redpoint Ventures Pete KoomenGeneral Partner at Y Combinator Ed BarrowCorporate Strategy, Market Mapping and M&A Expert at Notion Capital Kirsten Allegri WilliamsChief Marketing Officer, Infor at Gaia Ventures Erica Ruliffson SchultzPresident, Field Operations (former), Confluent at Operator Collective

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Quentin ClarkInvestment Team at General Catalyst Jamie MontgomeryCo-Founder & Managing Partner at March Capital Partners Jai DasPartner, President at Sapphire Ventures Lak AnanthGlobal Managing Partner at Next47 Ravi MhatrePartner and Co-Founder at Lightspeed Venture Partners James EphratiPartner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Also worked at Oracle655

Marc BenioffCo-founder, Chair & CEO of Salesforce AyshaAdvisor at Clear Ventures Natalie VaisInvestor at Spark Capital Mark SiegelPartner Emeritus at Menlo Ventures Hope CochranVenture Partner at Madrona Venture Group Mark NelsonVenture Partner at Madrona Venture Group

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Also worked at i2 Technologies38

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