The companies I build — and why each one exists.
I coach founders for a living. But the work doesn't stay in the room. Over the years it has hardened into companies — a coaching practice, software for organizations, and a non-profit. Four ventures, one thread running through all of them: helping people and the systems they run think more clearly. Here's each one, my role in it, and the reason it had to exist.
An operator who became a coach, then a builder.
I'm Naina Sahni. I spent over a decade inside Zomato — from content to Chief of Staff to founder Deepinder Goyal — and led Feeding India. I was embedded through the Grofers→Blinkit transformation. Today I coach 12+ founders and CEOs at companies including Zomato, Blinkit, CARS24, Bijnis, Xpressbees, Animall, Massive Restaurants, Market on Mainstreet, Pravaayu, LeverageEdu and SheerME.
Each venture below came from the same place: a problem I kept seeing from the inside, and a conviction that it deserved more than advice. More about my path →
Aklara — my coaching practice.
The home of my work with founders and the leaders around them.
My role
Founder. Aklara is where my coaching lives — one-to-one work with founders and CEOs, leadership-team transformation, and workshops. I'm the practitioner, not a brand sitting on top of a team of associates.
What it is
A coaching and transformation practice for people carrying real weight. The work is on judgment, clarity and learning capacity under sustained pressure — not frameworks for their own sake. It fuses systems thinking (I'm a Master Practitioner trained at the MIT Centre for Systems Awareness), original doctoral research, and contemplative practice.
Why it exists
Most founder failures don't begin as strategy problems. What breaks first — quietly — is the quality of thinking in the room. Advice doesn't fix that; a thinking partner does. Aklara exists to be that partner, and to do it honestly: the first conversation is free, the truth comes early, and the leverage stays with the leader long after the engagement ends.
See ways to work with me, or read about what a CEO coach actually does.
sAvaka — an operating system for living organizations.
What coaching a leader does for a person, sAvaka does for the system they run.
My role
Co-founder. After years of helping leaders see their organizations clearly one conversation at a time, I wanted that clarity to live in software — available between sessions, across the whole company, not just in my head.
What it is
An operating system for living organizations. It helps a leader do three things: see the system they are actually running, find the leverage point where one change moves the whole, and bring the right people into the room to act on it. It surfaces patterns, hotspots, cross-team friction and the loops that keep repeating — and turns them into a sharp question, not another dashboard.
Why it exists
Companies are full of metrics and starved of signal. sAvaka is not HR-tech, not an engagement survey, not a fake health score. It's built on a simple belief: an organization is a living system, and a leader who can see the system can act on it before the problem gets expensive. See what changed. Know what needs attention. Act before it costs you.
ILEKA — a venture I co-founded.
Part of the same conviction, on a different surface.
My role
Co-founder. As with sAvaka, I help shape what it is and why it should exist — building alongside people I trust rather than carrying it alone.
What it is
ILEKA is a venture I co-founded. Like the rest of my work, it sits at the intersection of people, systems and the conditions that let both grow well.
Why it exists
I build a venture when a problem is too structural to fix one conversation at a time — when it needs a product, an organization, or a long-term commitment behind it. ILEKA is one of those bets.
Ananta — the work that asks for nothing back.
Not every venture is a company. This one is service.
My role
Founder and President. Ananta is the part of my life that runs entirely outside the world of clients and companies — and I'm directly responsible for it.
What it is
A non-profit. Where the rest of my work is in service of leaders and organizations that can pay for it, Ananta carries the work done for its own sake.
Why it exists
I've spent a long time as a Vipassana practitioner and a yoga teacher, and the older I get the clearer it becomes that contribution can't only flow toward those who can afford it. Ananta exists to hold that part — service as a practice, not a transaction.
Four ventures, one question.
From the outside they look unrelated — a coaching practice, enterprise software, a venture, a non-profit. But I'm not building four different things. I'm building one thing on four surfaces.
The question under all of it is the same: how do people, and the systems they live inside, learn to see clearly and act well? Aklara works on the person. sAvaka works on the system. ILEKA carries the bet that's too structural for either alone. Ananta does it for those the market would never reach.
Coaching taught me that clarity is the rarest resource a leader has, and the most leverage. Everything I build is an attempt to make more of it — and to put it where it's needed, not only where it's paid for.
"Most problems aren't where you think they are. The work is helping people — and organizations — see the level the real problem lives on."Naina Sahni
The ventures, answered.
What companies has Naina Sahni founded?
I'm the founder of Aklara, my coaching and transformation practice; a co-founder of sAvaka, an operating system for living organizations; a co-founder of ILEKA; and the founder and president of Ananta, a non-profit. Alongside building these, I coach 12+ founders and CEOs at companies including Zomato, Blinkit, CARS24, Bijnis, Xpressbees and Animall.
What is sAvaka?
sAvaka is an operating system for living organizations, which I co-founded. It helps a leader see the system they're actually running, find the leverage point where one change moves the whole, and bring the right people into the room to act on it. It's not an HR dashboard or an engagement survey — it surfaces real patterns and hotspots so you can act before they get expensive.
What is Aklara?
Aklara is my coaching and transformation practice — the home of my one-to-one work with founders and CEOs, leadership-team transformation, and workshops. It's built on two decades inside Zomato and the Grofers→Blinkit transformation, doctoral research, systems-thinking training at the MIT Centre for Systems Awareness, and contemplative practice. See ways to work →
What is Ananta?
Ananta is a non-profit I founded and lead as president. It carries the part of my work that runs outside the world of companies and clients — service for its own sake, not for return.