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Aayush Phumbhra

Investor (PWRL), Entrepreneur (Chegg, Nectar)

United States

23+ years of work experience

Jul 20262 mosPresent

San Francisco Bay Area

https://www.powerlawfunds.com/pwrl
Apr 201016 yrs 5 mosPresent

Select Seed Investments: Canva (Partial exit), Houzz (Partial exit), Clever (Exit), Curemark, SevenRooms (Exit), Buffer, Mindsnacks, Kintsugi, Feather Robotics, SuperLiving, Discern, PetraPower. Select Series A to D Investments: Canva, Curemark, Gecko (Exit), Weee, Moglix, Meesho, Astranis, Ripio, Allocate, Aven, Ironclad, Picsart, Apollo, Placer, Abingdon, Prepared (Exit), Saronic, Anthropic, Crusoe, Erebor, Cambium. Plus various fund investments like Ribbit, 8vc, etc.
Mar 20148 yrs 2 mosApr 2022

BearingPoint
Feb 20051 yr 3 mosApr 2006

Chegg Inc.
Jan 200310 yrs 5 mosMay 2013

Aayush’s AI Stack

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deepmind
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grok
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Education

Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing & Accounting

Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business

20013 yrs2004

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Headline

Investor (PWRL), Entrepreneur (Chegg, Nectar)

Location

United States

AI stack

claude

codex

cursor

deepmind

deepseek

grok

Work experience

SVP & Partner at Powerlaw Capital Group, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, https://www.powerlawfunds.com/pwrl

Investor at UnicornDust, Apr 2010 - Present · 16 yrs 5 mos, Select Seed Investments: Canva (Partial exit), Houzz (Partial exit), Clever (Exit), Curemark, SevenRooms (Exit), Buffer, Mindsnacks, Kintsugi, Feather Robotics, SuperLiving, Discern, PetraPower. Select Series A to D Investments: Canva, Curemark, Gecko (Exit), Weee, Moglix, Meesho, Astranis, Ripio, Allocate, Aven, Ironclad, Picsart, Apollo, Placer, Abingdon, Prepared (Exit), Saronic, Anthropic, Crusoe, Erebor, Cambium. Plus various fund investments like Ribbit, 8vc, etc.

Co-Founder & CEO at Nectar, Mar 2014 - Apr 2022 · 8 yrs 2 mos

Business Consultant at BearingPoint, Feb 2005 - Apr 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos

Co-Founder at Chegg Inc., Jan 2003 - May 2013 · 10 yrs 5 mos

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing & Accounting, Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business

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