Tech Brewery’s Saagara offers meditative mobile app, aims to hire 20

Saagara is gaining traction, both for its meditative breathing apps and its workforce. So much so that the southeast Michigan Tech Brewery-based start-up plans to hire 20 people over the next year. Saagara, which is Sanskrit for ocean of ideas, focuses on providing a holistic approach to better health, centered around breathing called Pranayama.

Its president, Dr. Bobby Peddi, started the company shortly after he left his surgical residency about two years ago. Today it has a host of Internet and mobile phone apps with close to 500 users.