Chirag Chotalia
Senior Advisor at Cliffwater
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Adjunct Professor
2024 - Current
Teach Foundations of Venture Capital to 1st and 2nd year MBA students
Senior Advisor
2024
Cliffwater LLC provides alternative advisory services to institutional investors.
Partner
2016 - 2024
Partner at Threshold Ventures. Lead early stage and growth investments in vertical software and proptech. Proptech: Avenue8 Divvy Loftium SaaS: AutoLeap BentoBox Front LaunchDarkly
Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on conviction investment strategy.
Vice President- Venture Capital
2013 - 2016
Led day-to-day efforts in Pritzker Group Venture Capital in Los Angeles. Focused on early stage and growth technology investments in consumer internet, marketplaces and software. Managed/co-managed investments in: -Casper (sourced) -Dollar Shave Club (sourced) -Hello Giggles (sourced). Exit to Time Inc. -Hollar (sourced) -The Honest Company (sourced) -Retention Science (sourced) -PureWow (sourced)
Pritzker Group Venture Capital is a trusted partner helping entrepreneurs build market-leading technology companies
MBA
2011 - 2013
Chief Of Staff
2012 - 2013
Chief of Staff to Brian Lee and executive team at The Honest Company during summer & second year of business school. Projects focused on: customer service incentive structure design, product development pipeline , customer retention, shipping/fulfillment network design, inventory management.
The Honest Company is a consumer products company that offers baby, personal care, and beauty products.
Raised $503,000,000.00 from L Catterton.
Investment Director
2007 - 2011
CVC is a $45 billion large-cap global private equity firm. Was a founding member of CVC's New York office. Evaluated transactions in the consumer/retail, industrial, and energy sectors. Board observer for CVC's U.S. portfolio companies including Pilot Travel Centers and Univar. Spent 6 months seconded to Univar and helped lead merger integration work for BCS acquisition.
Associate
2005 - 2007
Associate responsible for supporting deal teams with modelling and industry analysis. Helped execute Charlesbank's investments into WorldStrides and Del Taco. Additionally had portfolio responsibility for Aurora Organic Dairy, and Papa Murphy's Pizza.
Charlesbank Capital Partners is a private equity firm
Business Analyst
2003 - 2005
Business analyst. Focused the bulk of my projects on restaurants, retail, CPG. Led stakeholder relations for the BRR, the Indonesian Government's FEMA equivalent focused on post-tsumani reconstruction.
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity