About
Anushka Nijhawan is co-founder and CTO at Spur, with prior experience at DeepMind and Meta, and studied computer science at Yale.
Founder at SpurYC S24
Intro paths
YC
Anushka went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Spur's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Anushka can intro founders to Spur's investors below.
Spur's investors · 8
ConvictionSan Francisco · $1M – $25M checks · since 2025First Round CapitalSan Francisco · $1M – $7M checks · since 2025Insight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checksNeoPear VCSan Francisco · $150K – $4M checks · since 2025Predictive VCNew YorkPredictive Venture PartnersNew York · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024
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Co-founders at Spur
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Sneha SivakumarFounder
Experience
- SpurCo-Founder, CTOcurrent2024 — present
- Yale UniversityNLP Research Intern2023 — 2024New Haven, CT
- DeepMindData Team2023London, England, United Kingdom
- MetaBackend Engineer2022Menlo Park, California, United States
- Yale UniversityUndergraduate Teaching Assistant, CPSC 223 Data Structures and Algorithms2021 — 2022
- Yale UniversityResearch Intern, LILY Lab2021 — 2022
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Anushka Nijhawan?
- Anushka Nijhawan is co-founder and CTO at Spur, with prior experience at DeepMind and Meta, and studied computer science at Yale.
- Where does Anushka Nijhawan work?
- Anushka Nijhawan is Founder of Spur.
- What companies did Anushka Nijhawan found?
- Anushka Nijhawan founded Spur.
- Where did Anushka Nijhawan go to school?
- Anushka Nijhawan studied at Y Combinator (Summer 2024 - Spur.dev); Yale University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram.
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