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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

  • Partner

    2016 - 2024

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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