Managing Partner & Founder
Raj Chudasama
Twenty years building hotels, technology, coworking, and real estate across North Texas. Operator first. Founder when the tools didn't exist.
- Kriya Hotels
- M1 Intel
- Venture X Grapevine
- Neptune Ventures
- Kriya RevGEN (acquired)
By the numbers
Two decades, four companies.
Operator first
A builder who started on the floor.
Raj began his career in technology — managing IT projects for Fortune 500 clients at Computer Sciences Corporation — before joining the family hotel business, run by hand since 1981. In 2004 he formalized those holdings into Kriya Hotels.
What followed was two decades of operating: acquisitions, ground-up development, and six hotels across the Marriott and Hilton families. But the throughline isn't the real estate — it's the habit of building a tool whenever the existing ones fell short. Kriya RevGEN, founded in 2013, came directly out of the revenue problems Raj was living as an operator. Nine years later it was acquired by Lighthouse.
Today he co-leads M1 Intel, building Matrix — a sales intelligence platform for hotel operators — alongside his role at Kriya. The pattern hasn't changed: run the business, notice the gap, build the thing.
Every company I've started came from the same place — a problem I couldn't stop thinking about.
The track record
Twenty years, in order.
- 2004
Kriya Hotels takes shape
Formalized the family's hotel holdings — a business run hands-on since 1981 — into Kriya Hotels.
- 2007
Largest acquisition, and a pivot to development
Led the acquisition of a 100-room Wingate by Wyndham — the family's largest deal to date — then turned toward ground-up development.
- 2013
First Hilton flag, and a software company
Opened Hampton Inn & Suites Trophy Club, Kriya's first Hilton-branded hotel. The same year, founded Kriya RevGEN to solve a revenue problem the off-the-shelf tools didn't.
- 2015–17
Three Home2 Suites in three years
Expanded the portfolio with three Home2 Suites by Hilton properties across the DFW metroplex.
- 2020
Venture X Grapevine
Opened a premium coworking space near DFW Airport — a bet on flexible work placed at an unlikely moment.
- 2022
Kriya RevGEN acquired by Lighthouse
The revenue-management company built out of frustration was acquired by Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) — a tech exit nine years in the making.
- 2022–23
A strategic pause in Madrid
Relocated to Madrid for a year — a deliberate step back to think about what to build next.
- 2023–present
Co-founding M1 Intel
Returned to build Matrix, a hotel sales intelligence platform centralizing group leads and multi-property pipeline tracking for operators.
What he's building now
Four companies, one operating mindset.
Kriya Hotels
Six DFW hotels across the Marriott and Hilton families — three Home2 Suites, Hampton Inn & Suites Trophy Club, Aloft Trophy Club Westlake, and Four Points by Sheraton Plano.
M1 Intel — Matrix
A hotel sales intelligence layer that centralizes group leads and tracks pipeline across a multi-property portfolio.
Venture X Grapevine
Premium coworking at 2451 W Grapevine Mills Circle, near DFW Airport — flexible workspace for the North Texas corridor.
Neptune Ventures
A residential real estate investment company focused on the Dallas–Fort Worth market.
Education
- Undergraduate
- University of Oklahoma
- MBA, Finance
- California State University, Long Beach
We didn't build RevGEN because we saw a market opportunity. We built it because we were frustrated users.
Connect
Find Raj across the work.
Hotels, technology, coworking, and real estate — most of it within an hour of DFW Airport.