Pear VC
Investment Details
Investor Type
Venture Capital
Asset Class Focus
Venture Capital
Stage Focus
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Early Stage
Geographical Focus
United States
Industries Focus
- Financial Services
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Consumer Goods
- Media
- Software
- Education
- Consumer
- EdTech
- FinTech
- E-commerce
- SaaS
- Transportation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Food and Beverage
- Biotech
- Cybersecurity
- Robotics
- Biotechnology
- Proptech
- Enterprise Tech
- Creator Economy
- Enterprise
- Hardware
- Climate Tech
- Clean Energy
- Enterprise Software
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Big Data & Analytics
- RetailTech
- HR Tech
- Advertising (AdTech)
- Marketing (MarTech)
Investment Size:
250,000 to 6,000,000 USD
Investor Details Founded: 2013
Pear VC is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. The firm specializes in pre-seed and seed investments, partnering with early-stage companies to build scalable businesses. Pear VC has invested in notable companies such as DoorDash, Guardant Health, Gusto, Polarr, and Branch.
The firm's investment strategy focuses on sectors including Artificial Intelligence, Consumer, SaaS, Enterprise Tech, Healthcare, FinTech, Climate Tech, Biotech, Big Data & Analytics, Developer Tools, Marketing (MarTech), Advertising (AdTech), Hardware, HR Tech, PropTech, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Creator Economy, EdTech, and RetailTech. Pear VC typically leads and co-leads seed stage investments, offering hands-on support in areas like recruiting, go-to-market strategy, product-market fit, and fundraising.
Pear VC has a strong track record, with three portfolio companies—DoorDash, Guardant Health, and Senti Bio—going public. Additionally, seven companies in its portfolio have achieved valuations over $1 billion, including Gusto, Branch, Aurora Solar, Vanta, and others. The firm closed its fourth fund in May 2023, raising $432 million to continue supporting early-stage founders, particularly in competitive areas like artificial intelligence.
Pear VC operates with a dual approach, combining a venture investing arm with an accelerator program launched in 2014, which has supported over 80 companies by 2021. The firm's team comprises founders and operators who have founded, scaled, and sold companies to organizations like Cisco, Instacart, and Medium. They offer in-house recruiting services, having made over 175 hires for Pear companies, and provide tailored playbooks and 1:1 coaching to help founders navigate the market and drive sustainable growth.
In December 2023, Pear VC opened a 30,000-square-foot collaborative workspace called Pear Studio in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood. This space serves as a hub for early-stage founders to work, learn, and grow, hosting events like fireside chats with tech leaders, hackathons, and office hours with the Pear team across various verticals.
Pear VC's mission is to partner with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category-defining companies, providing both capital and hands-on operational support to help founders succeed in the competitive startup landscape.
Requirements
- Exceptional founders
- Innovative ideas
- Scalable business models
- Innovative business models
- Scalable growth potential
- Strong market fit
- Clear path to profitability
- Innovative technology solutions
- Mission-driven founders eager to solve big problems in large markets
- Early-stage companies seeking pre-seed and seed investments
- Founders looking for hands-on support in recruiting, go-to-market strategy, product-market fit, and fundraising
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Portfolio Companies
- DoorDash
- Guardant Health
- Gusto
- Polarr
- Branch
- AppLovin
- SoundHound
- Affinity
- BioAge
- Aurora
- Branchmetrics
- Memebox
- Betterworks
- One Concern
- Solvvy
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