The Fabric’s co-creation process is unique as it focuses on the two most important parts of a start-up: the market and the founding team. With the help of The Fabric advisors and staff, Rajan Raghavan and Prabakar Sundarrajan, co-founders of The Fabric, have identified the white space and found the entrepreneurs for every co-created company. This is the co-creation of Mesh7.
Mesh7 Story – The Dawn of Application Security
The first step of the co-creation process is the identification of white space in the cloud and IoT infrastructure market. This identification began with a conversation between Rajan Raghavan, Prabakar Sundarrajan, and Klaus Oestermann, advisor at The Fabric and former Senior VP at Citrix, about current trends in the market in early 2018. As application architectures were changing into distributed services, they determined application-layer security for services were becoming increasingly important. This was their high-level thesis. It was broad enough that a company would have the opportunity to grow but specific enough to allow for innovation.
The second step of the formation process is the search for entrepreneurs with enough expertise and interest to help build the company. This is when they ran into Amit Jain and Pratik Roychowdhury, both former senior architects at NetScaler specializing in security. After their time at NetScaler with Prabakar, Amit and Pratik took very different paths. Amit continued to expand and master the technical side of security while Pratik mastered the sales and marketing of security. With these different experiences in the security industry stemming from the same starting point, Rajan and Prabakar knew that they would complement each other.
Now that the white space was identified and the entrepreneurs were found, the co-creation process moved forward. Amit and Pratik were brought on as co-founders with The Fabric and began to solidify the solution that would fit into the white space identified. With the help and support from The Fabric Amit and Pratik initiated the formation of their company; thus Mesh7 was born.