Saad Rajan

Co-founder + CEO | Designer + Engineer | Advisor + Investor | Harvard Alum

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Jan 2025
With a third of your life in retirement, there is so much to be explored. In most life transitions, weve had peers, teachers, and mentors to guide us along the way. Hively is your playbook to navigate your third chapter. We are a personalized retirement navigation and membership platform for post-career adults that offers small-group peer cohorts, vetted wellness experts, and curated programming to explore and holistically design whats next. Our third chapter is the best one yet. Welcome to our hive.
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Jan 2024
Century Health accelerates drug development and commercialization by applying AI to real-world data. It is far too slow today to answer critical questions because the richest clinical data is locked away in silos. Our platform does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protecting patient privacy.
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2025
Investor
Jan 2025
With a third of your life in retirement, there is so much to be explored. In most life transitions, weve had peers, teachers, and mentors to guide us along the way. Hively is your playbook to navigate your third chapter. We are a personalized retirement navigation and membership platform for post-career adults that offers small-group peer cohorts, vetted wellness experts, and curated programming to explore and holistically design whats next. Our third chapter is the best one yet. Welcome to our hive.
2024
Investor
Jan 2024
Century Health accelerates drug development and commercialization by applying AI to real-world data. It is far too slow today to answer critical questions because the richest clinical data is locked away in silos. Our platform does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protecting patient privacy.
2019
Co-founder
Jun 2019
Naya Studio is the AI × human platform for physical product development, from footwear to furniture and clothing to consumer electronics. Three tools, one digital studio: Estimation AI turns multi-week estimation processes into minutes, generating accurate should-cost and manufacturing estimates from any stage—image to BOM. Enterprise workflows are customized with tribal knowledge, proprietary data, and expert-in-the-loop feedback for even more accurate results. Sustainability AI generates an accurate estimate of the carbon, water, plastics, and energy footprint from the same kinds of image and BOM product inputs. Teams turn sustainability into a competitive edge, going from environmental data to claims that resonate with todays customers. Workflow AI centralizes the entire digital workflow into a single system of record. It is a unified space where brainstorms, 2D drawings, 3D models, spreadsheets, presentations, and videos coexist through 200+ integrations. By consolidating fragmented tools (project management, storage, whiteboarding, and more), multi-disciplinary teams maintain accountability and unlock greater creative potential, moving faster from concept to launch. About us: Naya Studio was co-founded 7 years ago at Harvard by Saad Rajan and Vivek Hv after 15+ years of real-world struggle building everything from high-rises to airplanes to furniture. Backers include top-tier VCs and execs from Figma, Pinterest, Autodesk, Adidas, and Puma, amongst others. Naya is working with Tiffany, New Balance, Adidas, Google, and hundreds of the best brands shaping what we live with, wear, listen to, and dream about. Our mission: enable 100 million ideas that are more thoughtful, more delightful, more loved. Better tools for better products in the world.
2012
Co-founder
Jun 2012
Njaro partners with local communities to create timeless products with a proud Tanzanian story while building their capacity for growth. A growing segment in the retail market is looking for clothing that provides value to their lives and means more to them. They are tired of purchasing from existing businesses with value chains that only benefit shareholders and not the people making the clothing. Customers are looking for a way to give back to the developing world, sustainably. Furthermore, the retail market is riddled with garments that are of lower quality. Njaro bridges the gap between Africa and the socially conscious consumers in the developed world. It provides handmade and authentic lifestyle products made wholly by women in the villages at the bottom of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Conscious consumers are able to know who is making their product and how the money they spend on it are being allocated to the value chain. Not only are the products fashionable and high quality, customers can wear them around knowing that it has a very special story. As well, the ladies that produce these items will be able to accomplish many more of their ambitions with their higher incomes.