About Our Founder
Nidhi Chadda
Nidhi is a seasoned generalist growth investor and advisor with deep experience across ESG, sustainability and impact. Her 20+ years of experience as an investment banker, strategic consultant and public / private markets investor at pedigree firms allows her to help the C-suite and Boards strategize and plan across all facets of the business. With her decade of experience as a buyside investor at leading asset management firms, she is well positioned to provide high-impact advice to help companies customize ESG strategies from both a business operations and investor communications standpoint.
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Nidhi has over a decade of experience in investing in public equities as a generalist, with a focus on US small and mid-cap growth equities as well as an early - stage angel investor. In addition, she sits on the Advisory Boards across several early-stage growth companies in the consumer, technology and ESG / sustainability verticals, providing guidance on strategy development, financial planning and investor communications.
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Nidhi is an active member of the global angel investing community. She is the sector lead for cybersecurity and co-sector lead for e-commerce and digital health at Harvard Alumni Angels Association of Greater New York, a member of the Investment Committee of Wharton Alumni Angels and sits on the Investment Advisory Council for Alumni Ventures Group.
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Nidhi further demonstrates her passion for mentoring and advising companies through her affiliations with various accelerator platforms. She is a mentor to the current cohort of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), an early - stage fund and technology accelerator based in New York City; XRC Labs, a leading retail technology / consumer - focused accelerator; NY Fashion Tech Lab, a platform co-founded by Springboard Enterprises and major fashion retailers to support women-led companies that have developed innovation at the intersection of fashion, retail and technology; and Mt. Sinai Innovation Partners, supporting the real-world application and commercialization of technologies disrupting the healthcare industry.
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She has been a panelist and a judge in a number of pitch nights and venture fund - sponsored events and hosted several webinars across various topics discussing angel investing, fundraising for entrepreneurs, and most recently hosted a webinar for the NY Fashion Tech Lab on the status of retail and navigating thru the Covid-19 crisis.
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Nidhi is an active supporter of various diversity initiatives. She is a Board member of the Harvard Business School Women's Association and an Executive Committee and Board member of KEEN USA, a non-profit organization focused on providing recreational activities and a sense of community and well-being for children with physical and developmental disabilities.
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Most recently, Nidhi was a generalist portfolio manager at RBC Global Asset Management, covering the small, SMID and mid-cap growth strategies and spearheading the effort to drive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration into investment processes for her team. Prior to joining RBC, Nidhi was a research analyst primarily focused on small cap strategies as a generalist at Fred Alger Management. In 2019, she was the finalist for the Women in Asset Management Award for the US Small and Mid-cap Equities category and 2021, she was nominated as a finalist for the Next Generation Leader Award for her work as a sustainability thought leader launching Enzo Advisors.
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Nidhi began her career in the investment industry as a global consumer analyst at Sursum Capital and OppenheimerFunds. Her prior experience includes working within investment banking in both mergers and acquisitions and restructuring advisory, at Greenhill & Co and Goldman Sachs, and in corporate finance at McKinsey & Co.
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She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.