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title: "Aayush Phumbhra - SVP & Partner in United States | Tal"
description: "Meet Aayush Phumbhra, Investor (PWRL), Entrepreneur (Chegg, Nectar) based in United States. AI stack includes claude, codex, and cursor."
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# Aayush Phumbhra on Tal

## 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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