Narasimhan Rengan
Founder, Waypoint
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| Education |
| MSc Intelligent Systems, University of Sussex (2011) |
| Program | Canopy Spring 2026, Founders, Inc. |
| Company | Waypoint (waypoint.ing) |
Narasimhan Rengan is the founder of Waypoint, a developer infrastructure company admitted to Canopy Spring 2026 at Founders, Inc. that indexes more than 41,000 AI agents and provides routing, discovery, and settlement infrastructure for agent-to-agent calls.2 Based in San Francisco, he spent nearly two decades in enterprise software engineering across Chennai and London before co-founding two AI startups in 2025 and launching Waypoint in March 2026.1
Rengan earned a Master of Science in Intelligent Systems at the University of Sussex in 2011.1 His dissertation, completed during an internship at Cognizant's Concept Lab innovation group in Chennai, built a concept-based model for enhancing document classification accuracy.1
Rengan joined Cognizant as an Associate in December 2007, working as team lead for an underwriting portal for insurance agents.1 After completing his master's degree, he returned to Cognizant as a project intern in June 2011 and transitioned to a full-time Development Team Lead role at Concept Lab — the company's internal innovation group — in February 2012.1
At Concept Lab he led development on two products. FINDSResume analyzed unstructured candidate resumes and produced a faceted search interface for Cognizant's Workforce Management team to match candidates to roles. FINDS API was a backend service that accepted unstructured text and returned contextual insights.1
In August 2014 Rengan transferred to London to work as Senior Product Specialist — Guidewire at a leading UK insurance carrier, a role he held for four and a half years.1 His responsibilities included disaster recovery test design and execution as application subject-matter expert, consulting on a WebSphere Application Server upgrade for end-of-life applications, performance management and JVM tuning for production systems, and a GDPR compliance consultation for ClaimCenter v5.1 During this period he maintained a personal GitHub account where, in 2016, he built a chatbot for the TechCrunch Hackathon and forked TensorFlow as part of independent ML experiments.5
He returned to Chennai in April 2019 for a brief continuation as Senior Product Specialist – Guidewire at Cognizant before leaving the company in October 2019.1
After leaving Cognizant, Rengan held two concurrent senior architecture positions in Chennai. As Senior Application Architect at Cloudix Inc. he worked from October 2019 until June 2023. As Senior Architect at Presidio he continued from October 2019 until February 2025, a tenure of more than five years across both roles.1
In February 2025 Rengan co-founded bluely.ai in Chennai and served as CEO. The company positioned itself as an enterprise data solution and operated with a team of two to ten people.4 bluely.ai exhibited at the Tamil Nadu Global Startup Summit 2025 (TNGSS2025) in Coimbatore.4 Rengan departed the company in October 2025.1
After working on a stealth AI startup from November 2025 to March 2026, Rengan founded Waypoint in San Francisco in March 2026, relocating from Chennai.1 Waypoint was admitted to Canopy Spring 2026 at Founders, Inc.2
Waypoint indexes AI agents from five public MCP registries and classifies them into a 66-category capability taxonomy with categories such as ai.inference, search.web, and database.query.2 As of April 2026 the directory contains more than 41,000 agents, of which over 200 are verified to work without authentication.2 Rengan describes the platform as "DNS + npm + OpenRouter for agents": the npm layer handles publishing and versioning agents with cryptographic identity; the DNS layer handles capability-based discovery; the OpenRouter layer handles invocation, negotiation, and routing through a unified SDK.3 A hosted MCP Discovery Gateway at mcp.waypoint.ing allows MCP clients including Claude and Cursor to reach the full agent directory without installation or OAuth configuration.2
The platform's Agent Transfer Protocol (ATP) adds identity, routing, billing, and trust scoring above HTTP, using Ed25519 signatures for request authentication and scoped delegation tokens for agent-to-agent authorization.3 Billing runs on prepaid credits with per-call deduction and exactly-once metering deduplication on every invocation.3