# Aayush Phumbhra

> Aayush Phumbhra is a seed investor at Nectar (San Francisco) backing Mobile and Software. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nectar](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nectar-3)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aayush
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/aayushchegg
- Website: https://x.com/aayushchegg

Aayush Phumbhra is a seed investor at Nectar in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Software. Aayush Phumbhra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nectar.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$4.7M |
| Debt Financing | $105k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 4 | 22% |
| Software | 3 | 17% |
| Education | 3 | 17% |
| Video | 2 | 11% |
| Internet | 2 | 11% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 56% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 11% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 67% |
| India | 4 | 22% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NPrep | NPrep is an AI-powered skilling and placement platform specifically designed for nursing students and professionals. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| Tractorfactory | Tractorfactory is the most trusted way of buying and selling used tractors. Select online and book a test drive at your home or at a Tractor Factory Hub near you. Get a no-questions-asked 5-day money back guarantee and a free 6 months to one-year comprehensive service warranty with Assured Resale Value on every Tractor Factory Assured® tractors. | $462.2K | Pre-Seed | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| getcrux | GetCrux is an AI Copilot for Performance Marketing. We help media buyers take the right actions at the right time and boost performance. | $1.7M | Seed | Feb 08, 2024 |  |
| Magma | Magma platform partners with factories and raw materials suppliers to offer supply chain services from the supplier to the customer. | $2.8M | Seed | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| TravClan | TravClan empowers travel agents and new age travel entrepreneurs to generate more business online by enabling businesses to build and grow their digital presence and earn more profit by booking flights, hotels, holidays with suppliers across the world at best B2B prices on its platform. TravClan’s vision is to empower SMBs in travel across theworld to grow their business. It aims to bring on board over 10 million SMBs and enable a GMV of over $10 billion by 2025 on its platform. | $4.7M | Seed | Apr 28, 2022 |  |
| Do | Do offers a platform that works as one place for all the notes, presentations, docs, and all other collateral to live together. The company gives the user the tools to frame the discussion, ensure things get done, and make decisions clear. | $2M | Seed | Mar 10, 2015 |  |
| Apartment List | Apartment List is a smart, simple, and seamless renting platform that’s dedicated to making the process fair and transparent for all. Their mission is to build a better world of renting for everyone, to get rid of the pain and complexity, and makes it more personal, flexible, and transparent.They make finding a home to love easy and enjoyable,with a personally curated search feature that gets to know the individual.It was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $6M | Secondary Market | Feb 05, 2014 |  |
| Colingo | Colingo was founded in 2011 to break down barriers to personal, social, and economic opportunities by teaching people around the world to speak English.Colingo offers a live, online English school with teacher-led group conversation classes, personalized skills-training and private tutoring.Through its live video classes, Colingo provides apersonalized path to English fluency for global professionals who have a basic understanding of English, but lack the confidence and skills to speak in conversational settings. Offered 24 hours a day, Colingo's classes blend authentic conversation about contemporary topics with structured skills training and assessment of over 70 core grammar and pronunciation skills. An average class size of three to five provides an intimate, low-pressure environment where students can gain comfort and confidence while improving core skills and receive feedback. | $2.4M | Seed | Nov 20, 2013 |  |
| Canva | Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. | $6.6M | Seed | Mar 19, 2013 |  |
| ONEHOPE | ONEHOPE is a social enterprise that sells wine and other products and services to raise awareness and funding for charitable organizationsand social causes as well as donates half of its profits to charity, enabling its customers to contribute to social causes. | $6M | Series B | Mar 01, 2013 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [All in capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-in-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rothenberg Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rothenberg-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Titan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/titan-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Nectar

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Nectar develops an IoT solution for the hospitality and consumer packaged goods industries.

2 contacts available at Nectar.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aayush Phumbhra | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aayush-phumbhra |
| Prabhanjan Gurumohan | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prabhanjan-gurumohan |

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## FAQ

### What does Aayush Phumbhra invest in?

Aayush Phumbhra invests primarily in Mobile, Software and Education startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Aayush Phumbhra's check size?

Aayush Phumbhra typically joins rounds of $600k–$4.7M at Seed and $105k–$1.5M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aayush Phumbhra participates in.

### When did Aayush Phumbhra last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aayush Phumbhra closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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