Catalina Girald Net Worth 2026: Naja Founder and Investor

No reputable outlet has published an estimate of Catalina Girald's net worth, and the $81 million figure that appeared on this page before had no source. It also does not fit the record. Girald is a Colombian-born former Skadden lawyer who founded two consumer start-ups, the fashion marketplace Moxsie and the lingerie brand Naja, which she pitched on Shark Tank at a $10 million valuation and which closed around 2023. Neither company was reported to have sold for a large sum, and she has since moved into advising and investing.

What is Catalina Girald's net worth?

Forbes, Bloomberg and Celebrity Net Worth list no figure for her. Her companies were private, and she has not disclosed personal assets, investments or what she earned from them. The best public benchmarks are the valuations tied to Naja:

• According to Shark Tank Blog, she had earlier raised $850,000 at a $5 million valuation.
• On Shark Tank in 2015 she asked for $500,000 for 5% of the company, which valued Naja at $10 million. She told the sharks it had done $145,000 in sales in five months.
• Kevin O'Leary offered $500,000 for 50%, a $1 million valuation. She turned it down and left without a deal, Women.com reported.

Those are valuations of a company she did not wholly own, not measures of her personal wealth, and the company later closed. Any single net worth number for her would be a guess.

Catalina Girald's yearly income

This page used to claim she made $3.75 million a year, $312,000 a month and $10,000 a day. No source supported those numbers and they have been removed. Her salary as Naja's chief executive was never published, and her current income from advising and investing is not public either.

Before becoming a founder she worked as a mergers and acquisitions associate at Skadden, one of the largest US law firms, for about four and a half years, according to Fast Company. Associate pay at such firms is well documented as high, but her own compensation there was never reported.

Early life and family

Girald was born in Colombia, and her hometown is Medellin, where Naja later set up its factory. She told Boston College's law magazine that she grew up in a family where the only acceptable careers were law or medicine, and she told Stanford that she was an only child. Fast Company reported that as a child she sold her own homemade T-shirts and jewelry.

The old version of this page said her mother was a painter and her father a musician, and that she had a boyfriend. We found no source for any of this, so it has been removed. She has kept her personal life out of the press.

Education

• Boston College Law School: law degree (JD), class of 2000, according to BC Law Magazine.
• Fashion Institute of Technology, New York: design and business classes taken in the early 2000s while she was still at Skadden.
• Stanford Graduate School of Business: MBA, class of 2006. She has said the late Intel chief Andy Grove was her professor there and became a mentor.

Because she finished law school in 2000, the claim on this page that she was 27 years old could not have been right. Her exact age and date of birth have not been published, and the height and weight listed here before had no source.

Career timeline

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Naja: the business behind her name

Naja sold lingerie that aimed to look like luxury products at mass-market prices. Girald said she surveyed more than 600 women before launching and printed encouraging messages inside each pair of underwear. Production was in Medellin, where a program called Underwear for Hope, run first with the local Golondrinas Foundation, trained and employed single mothers and women who headed their households. She was the company's founder, CEO and creative director, which is where the "creative director" label on the old version of this page came from; she did not work in advertising.

A speaker biography from the Podim conference credits her with introducing underwear in seven skin tones, an approach other brands later followed. Women.com reported in 2025 that the Naja website had gone offline, that customers had received a closing email, and that PitchBook lists the company as out of business.

What she does now

Girald now describes herself as an investor, two-time founder and executive with interests in food technology, AI, climate technology and mentoring women. The Podim biography says she is an advisor at Halogen Ventures, an early-stage fund that backs female-founded consumer companies, and a founding member of the Rolling Stone Culture Council, an invitation-only group. The earlier claim that she was "working on something exciting at Cardumen Capital" could not be confirmed and has been removed.

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Why estimates differ

Sites that give her a fortune in the tens of millions do not cite anything. What can be checked points to a founder whose companies raised modest sums: Naja started with $100,000 and raised $850,000 more, and the Shark Tank offers valued it at between $1 million and $10 million. Moxsie was sold, but the price was never reported. Until a credible outlet publishes an estimate, we list her net worth as unknown.