Naiyya Sagi

Founder & CEO
EDT

I am currently building my new venture EDT (Edition), a company that believes that it’s time Indian founders build global teams and pathbreaking products & brands for the world from India. We are in stealth with founding team in Mumbai, Bangalore, London and SF.
 
We are united by a core belief: Products (and people) win not when they do things better, but when they do things different. EDT stands for a new generation of products that are led by design, technology and a mission for helping people make #everydayextraordinary.
 
My first venture was BabyChakra. In 2015, we founded BabyChakra with the vision of making parenting easier. The platform provides, to be & new parents with relevant information via intelligent communities & personalized content and ensures access to trusted professionals in the medical world. More than 24 million mothers & 10,000 doctors have used BabyChakra. Funded by the world’s top healthtech funds & angels, BabyChakra has been consistently recognised as one of the Top Consumer Tech products by Global Tech Powerhouses such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft.
 
BabyChakra was also covered in a Harvard Business School Case Study: one of the few ventures in India to have this honour.
 
In July 2021, BabyChakra merged with MyGlamm and I joined MyGlamm as a Co-founder, President. We then formed the Good Glamm Group where as group co founder, I helped lead the evolution of The Good Glamm Group which became India’s First Insurgent Brands Unicorn, valued at over $1.2 Bn. We are backed by Prosus, Warburg Pincus, Accel Partners, Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners & Wipro Consumer. I exited last year on vesting.
 
I am a member of The National Taskforce for Regulatory Issues, DPIIT Ministry of Commerce, India, on the Governing Council of TEAM (Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai) and the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Association.
 
I serve as an independent director on the board of publicly listed Welspun Living (WLL) part of the $5 BN Welspun Group & Tanla platforms.
 
I began my journey recently as an angel investor having investments in healthtech, consumer and SAAS.
 
I am a Harvard Business School Graduate (MBA 2012) where I was a Fulbright & Tata Scholar. I was formerly a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. and at The Bridgespan Group (Boston) where I worked extensively in Scaling Healthcare & Education Ventures. I am also a qualified lawyer ( BA.LLB (Hons)) from National Law School, (Bangalore) where I was elected University President.