{"id":10845,"date":"2025-09-01T07:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/40under40-west\/?post_type=team&#038;p=10845"},"modified":"2025-09-01T07:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:27:51","slug":"naiyya-sagi","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/40-under-40.et-edge.com\/west-edition-2025\/team\/naiyya-sagi\/","title":{"rendered":"Naiyya Sagi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am currently building my new venture EDT (Edition), a company that believes that it\u2019s time Indian founders build global teams and pathbreaking products &amp; brands for the world from India. We are in stealth with founding team in Mumbai, Bangalore, London and SF.<br>\u00a0<br>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.<br>\u00a0<br>My first venture was BabyChakra. In 2015, we founded BabyChakra with the vision of making parenting easier. The platform provides, to be &amp; new parents with relevant information via intelligent communities &amp; personalized content and ensures access to trusted professionals in the medical world. More than 24 million mothers &amp; 10,000 doctors have used BabyChakra. Funded by the world\u2019s top healthtech funds &amp; angels, BabyChakra has been consistently recognised as one of the Top Consumer Tech products by Global Tech Powerhouses such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft.<br>\u00a0<br>BabyChakra was also covered in a Harvard Business School Case Study: one of the few ventures in India to have this honour.<br>\u00a0<br>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\u2019s First Insurgent Brands Unicorn, valued at over $1.2 Bn. We are backed by Prosus, Warburg Pincus, Accel Partners, Amazon, Bessemer Venture Partners &amp; Wipro Consumer. I exited last year on vesting.<br>\u00a0<br>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.<br>\u00a0<br>I serve as an independent director on the board of publicly listed Welspun Living (WLL) part of the $5 BN Welspun Group &amp; Tanla platforms.<br>\u00a0<br>I began my journey recently as an angel investor having investments in healthtech, consumer and SAAS.<br>\u00a0<br>I am a Harvard Business School Graduate (MBA 2012) where I was a Fulbright &amp; Tata Scholar. I was formerly a Management Consultant at McKinsey &amp; Co. and at The Bridgespan Group (Boston) where I worked extensively in Scaling Healthcare &amp; Education Ventures. I am also a qualified lawyer ( BA.LLB (Hons)) from National Law School, (Bangalore) where I was elected University President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10848,"menu_order":7,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[67],"class_list":["post-10845","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-speakers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/40-under-40.et-edge.com\/west-edition-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/10845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/40-under-40.et-edge.com\/west-edition-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/40-under-40.et-edge.com\/west-edition-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/40-under-40.et-edge.com\/west-edition-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/40-under-40.et-edge.com\/west-edition-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/40-under-40.et-edge.com\/west-edition-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/40-under-40.et-edge.com\/west-edition-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=10845"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/40-under-40.et-edge.com\/west-edition-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=10845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}