Pune → Erode → Patiala → the world
In 2016, a sports biomechanist and a third-generation textile engineer kept seeing the same thing at Indian training grounds: world-class athletes in kit built for somebody else's climate. Nobody had designed for the athletes who trained at 5 AM — the only cool hour of the day.
So Meera Rajgopal and Arjun Malhotra built the company backwards: start with the hardest conditions on Earth — an Indian May — then tune the fabric until it met podium standards. The first product was a 68-gram singlet, hand-sewn in Pune and tested at dawn on the University of Pune athletics track.
Ten years later, SAPTASHVA kits athletes in 14 countries — and every product still begins the same way: worn at 5 AM, in the heat, by someone chasing a time.
Meera Rajgopal
Sports biomechanist. Wrote the company's first rule: no fabric ships without published sweat-test data.
Arjun Malhotra
Third-generation textile engineer. Rewired his family's Erode looms to weave for the subcontinent first.
"If it survives an Indian May,
it will survive anything."
