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Pear VC

Menlo Park, California, US

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Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson in 2013. Originally named Pejman Mar Ventures, the firm was rebranded to Pear VC in 2016 and partners with exceptional founders from day zero to build category-defining companies.

Founded: —
Type: Venture capital

Team

Katia Ameri Pear VC, Investor	$20M$500K – $40M	San Francisco Bay Area · Los Angeles, California
Arash Afrakhteh Pear VC, partner	$5M$250K – $10M	Menlo Park, California
Ian Taylor Pear VC, partner	$5M$25K – $10M	Palo Alto, California
Lucy Zhang Pear VC, venture_partner	$5M$250K – $10M	Palo Alto, California
Danielle Jing Pear VC, associate	$5M$250K – $10M	San Francisco Bay Area
Eddie Eltoukhy Pear VC, partner	$5M$250K – $10M	San Francisco Bay Area
Mar Hershenson Pear VC, Founding Managing Partner	$2M$1M – $5M	Los Altos, California
Pejman Nozad Pear VC, managing_partner	$2M$250K – $5M	Palo Alto, California
Kyle Perez Pear VC, venture_partner	$1M$100K – $5M	New York City
Keith Bender Pear VC, partner	$1M$1M – $1M	Palo Alto, California
Ajay Kamat Pear VC, partner	$1M$250K – $10M	San Francisco Bay Area
Ryan Sells Pear VC, partner	$1M$100K – $10M	San Francisco, California
Vivien Ho Pear VC, partner	$1M$25K – $3M	San Francisco, California
Kathleen Estreich Pear VC, partner	$200K$100K – $300K	Los Altos, California
Nils Bunger Pear VC, partner	$50K$10K – $100K	Stanford, California
Warren Shaeffer Pear VC, partner	$25K$5K – $50K	San Francisco Bay Area
Harris Stolzenberg Pear VC, Partner	—— – —	Boston, Massachusetts
Alex Gao Pear VC, Engineer	—— – —
Emma Krivoshein Pear VC, Senior Operations Associate	—— – —
Ivan Dimov Pear VC, Investor	—— – —
Jenny Thai Pear VC, Head of Marketing	—— – —
Khalil Fuller Pear VC, Partner & Head of Dorm	—— – —
Laura Wright Pear VC, Talent	—— – —
Mark Valdez Pear VC, Partner	—— – —
Maryna Sivaieva Pear VC, Talent	—— – —
Nate Hirsch Pear VC, Talent	—— – —
Pepe Agell Pear VC, Partner	—— – —
Shravan Reddy Pear VC, Partner	—— – —

Investments

$5M2026-02-11	Egra	Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Pear VC, Liquid 2 Ventures, Soma Capital, Afore Capital, Link Ventures, Alexander Wissner-Gross, Courtside Ventures, Joshua Lu, Jane Rhee, Emily Bennett, Bryan Kim, Mike Sho Liu, Mar Hershenson, Harris Stolzenberg, Nathaniel Montana, Fouad Farhat, Nikhita Jaaswal, Aneel Ranadive, Joseph Cardini, Gaurav Jain, Frazer Anderson, Vasu Kulkarni, Oliver Ressler, Deepen Parikh, Dan Birmingham
$46M2026-07-13	Quadric	Pear VC, Uncork Capital
$11M2026-04-06	Insight Health	Kindred Ventures, Pear VC
$8M2026-03-31	Nomadic	Pear VC
$7M2026-03-24	Moda	General Catalyst, Pear VC, WndrCo
$2M2026-03-03	Burst	Pear VC
$4M2026-02-19	Amari	First Round, Pear VC
$10M2026-01-28	Snout	Pear VC
$30M2026-01-14	Quadric	Pear VC, Uncork Capital, Jeff Clavier
$69M2026-01-14	Listen Labs	Sequoia, Ribbit Capital, Evantic, Conviction Partners, Pear VC
$9M2026	Kin Health	ENIAC Ventures, Flex Capital, Pear VC
$160M2026	Forus	Bain Capital, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, Accel, BoxGroup, Thrive Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Pear VC
$35M2025-12-10	Bobyard	8VC, Pear VC, Primary Venture Partners, Jason Shuman, Mar Hershenson
$23M2025-11-28	Gravis Robotics	IQ Capital, Pear VC
$12M2025-11-20	Parallax	Pear VC
$15M2025-11-12	OnRamp	Pear VC
$4M2025-10-29	Socratix AI	Y Combinator, Transpose Platform, Pear VC, Twenty Two Ventures
$4M2025-10-28	Socratix AI, Inc	Y Combinator, Pear VC, Twenty Two Ventures, TI Platform
$—2025-10-28	SalesPatriot	Y Combinator, CRV, Liquid 2 Ventures, SV Angel, Pear VC, Uncorrelated Ventures
$80M2025-10-28	Zag Bio	Lightspeed, Bowery Capital, ReGen Ventures, Sanofi Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Mission BioCapital, Pear VC
$11M2025-09-29	Neura Health	Pear VC
$5M2025-09-23	Wexler	Pear VC, Bessemer Venture Partners
$—2025-09-22	Cardless	Pear VC
$—2025-09-10	Remuner	Pear VC
$4M2025-09-10	TrueMeter	Flex Capital, Pear VC
$3M2025-09-05	Flax	Pear VC
$7M2025-08-12	Dealops	General Catalyst, Flex Capital, Pear VC, Titanium Ventures, 20SALES, Weekend Fund, Kathleen Estreich
$7M2025-07-03	Piston	Pear VC
$5M2025-06-18	Typedef	Pear VC
$10M2025-05-22	Axle Health	Y Combinator, F-Prime Capital, Lightbank, Pear VC, Vivien Ho, Mar Hershenson
$15M2025-05-12	Glide	Pear VC
$4M2025-04-17	Spur	First Round, Pear VC
$3M2025-04-04	Series	Pear VC
$4M2025-03-26	ConfigHub	Crane Venture Partners, Pear VC, Aneel Lakhani, Arash Afrakhteh
$13M2025-02-06	Tyba	Pear VC
$25M2025	From Counsel	Pear VC
$3M2025	Flax	Pear VC
$5M2025	Typedef	Pear VC
$4M2025	Parallax	Pear VC
$4M2025	Socratix	Y Combinator, Pear VC, Twenty Two Ventures
$18M2025	Polimorphic	General Catalyst, Shine Capital, Pear VC, M13
$18M2025	Polimorphic	General Catalyst, Shine Capital, Pear VC, M13
$40M2024-11-20	Federato	Pear VC
$20M2024-11-12	Vega	Pear VC
$11M2024-10-22	Counsel	Pear VC
$20M2024-10-04	Voyage AI	CRV, Pear VC, Wing Venture Capital
$65M2024-09-19	GC Therapeutics	Pear VC, Vineeta Agarwala
$3M2024-08-01	Heeyo	Pear VC
$14M2024-07-18	OnRamp	Pear VC
$1M2024-06-27	Cooby	Pear VC
$30M2024-06-27	Orby AI	Pear VC, Wing Venture Capital, Arash Afrakhteh
$40M2024-06-25	Local Kitchens	General Catalyst, Human Ventures, Pear VC
$4M2024-06-22	Afterhour	Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Pear VC, Daybreak Ventures, F4 Fund
$30M2024-06-12	Learn to Win	Pear VC
$—2024-05-30	Windborne	Khosla Ventures, Human Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, Footwork, Convective Capital, Pear VC
$9M2024-05-16	Honey Homes	Pear VC, New Era Capital Partners, Khosla Ventures
$7M2024-03-11	Guardrails AI	Zetta Venture Partners, Pear VC
$20M2024-03-04	Topsort	Pear VC
$—2024-02-28	Ideogram	Pear VC
$25M2023-09-26	Series	Basis Set Ventures, Day One Ventures, Pear VC, Mario Gabriele, Annelies Gamble
$25M2023-06-27	Federato	Pear VC
$9M2023-06-27	Honey Homes	Khosla Ventures, Evan Moore, Moving Capital, Pear VC
$—2023-06-22	Windborne	Khosla Ventures, Human Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, Footwork, Convective Capital, Pear VC
$4M2023-05-10	Orby AI	Pear VC, Wing Venture Capital
$58M2023-04-27	Foresight Diagnostics	CIV, Pear VC
$1M2023	Gryps	Pear VC, Primary Venture Partners
$40M2022-10-24	The Coterie	Gradient Ventures, Pear VC, Anish Acharya, Darian Shirazi
$15M2022-10-20	Keebo	Pear VC
$15M2022-09-19	Federato	Pear VC
$—2022-08-01	Expedock	Pear VC
$40M2022-07-25	Cardless	Pear VC
$4M2022-05-25	Aklivity	468 Capital, Pear VC
$4M2022-05-24	Fanimal	Pear VC
$4M2022-05-12	Sudozi	Pear VC
$6M2022-04-26	Pillsorted	Pear VC
$20M2022-03-22	Muni	Lightspeed, Monashees, Pear VC
$20M2022-03-21	Recora	Pear VC
$8M2022-03-10	Topsort	Pear VC
$20M2022-02-02	Melonn	Founders Fund, NFX, GGV Capital, Hi Ventures, Wollef, QED Investors, Pear VC
$20M2022-01-24	Inventa	Founders Fund, Greylock Partners, Monashees, Alter Global, MAYA Capital, Tiger Global Management, LLC, Pear VC
$7M2022-01-21	FarmRaise	Pear VC
$4M2022-01-13	Paysail	Uncork Capital, Pear VC
$4M2022	Formfunction	Pear VC
$4M2021-12-01	Markai	Pear VC
$2M2021-11-18	Maker Wine Company	Pear VC, Primary Venture Partners
$2M2021-09-21	Seven Starling	Pear VC
$3M2021-09-14	immi	Pear VC
$80M2021-09-09	Affinity	Pear VC
$18M2021-08-25	Knoetic	Accel, Pear VC
$75M2021-07-27	Nobell Foods	Pear VC
$40M2021-07-14	Cardless	Pear VC
$70M2021-07-08	Xilis	Felicis, Pear VC
$25M2021-06-28	Local Kitchens	General Catalyst, Human Capital, Pear VC, Fifth Wall, Penny Jar Capital
$—2021-06-28	Local Kitchens	General Catalyst, Human Ventures, Pear VC, Fifth Wall, Penny Jar Capital
$12M2021-06-02	Foresight Diagnostics	CIV, Pear VC
$5M2021-04-13	Wage	Gradient Ventures, 8VC, Pear VC, Zach Bratun-Glennon
$75M2021-03-11	Ixlayer	General Catalyst, Uber Investments, Pear VC, Prologis, MBX Capital, Trevor Oelschig, Mar Hershenson
$15M2021-01-25	Darwin Homes	Khosla Ventures, TQ Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Canvas Prime, Camber Creek, Wave Capital, Pear VC
$70M2021	Xilis	Felicis, Pear VC
$90M2020-12-03	BioAge Labs	Felicis, Pear VC, Vijay Pande
$50M2020-11-30	Aurora Solar	ICONIQ Capital, Pear VC, Doug Pepper, Mar Hershenson
$4M2020-02-27	Run the World	Pear VC
$20M2019-11-07	Nightfall	Bain Capital, Venrock, Atlassian Ventures, Pear VC
$55M2019-07-23	Heap	Pear VC
$11M2019-03-01	Polarr	Pear VC
$20M2019-02-04	Aurora Solar	Pear VC
$53M2018-02-27	Senti Biosciences	Lux Capital, Pear VC, Alex Kolicich
$38M2018	Convey	Khosla Ventures, Techstars, Andreessen Horowitz, Pear VC, Silverton Partners, RPM Ventures
$13M2017-05-18	Affinity	8VC, Pear VC
$60M2016-12-15	MEMEBOX	Altos Ventures, Pear VC
$6M2016-08-24	PRENAV	Pear VC
$11M2016-08-18	Heap	Pear VC
$65M2016-08-09	MEMEBOX	Pear VC
$35M2016-01-27	Branch Metrics	Founders Fund, New Enterprise Associates, Cowboy Ventures, Pear VC, Madrona Venture Group
$35M2016-01-27	Branch	Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Pear VC, New Enterprise Associates, Madrona Venture Group
$1M2014-07-28	Thinknum, Inc.	Pear VC
$17M2014-05-22	DoorDash	Sequoia, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, Coatue Management LLC, CRV, Y Combinator, SoftBank Vision Fund, Pear VC
$17M2014-05	DoorDash	Sequoia, Khosla Ventures, CRV, Pear VC
$30M2014-04-22	Guardant Health	Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Pear VC, Sequoia Capital, Samir Kaul, Pejman Nozad
$2M2013-09-30	DoorDash	Khosla Ventures, CRV, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Pear VC, Benchmark
$4MUnknown date	Redcoat AI	Pear VC
$4MUnknown date	Greatly Health	Pear VC
$40MUnknown date	Vals	Pear VC
$7MUnknown date	Lantern	Pear VC
$7MUnknown date	Guardrails	Pear VC
$3MUnknown date	OpenFort	Pear VC
$3MUnknown date	Coverbase	Pear VC
$20MUnknown date	Coverbase	Pear VC
$8MUnknown date	Vega	Pear VC
$2MUnknown date	Pearl Street Technologies	Pear VC
$12MUnknown date	Infinimmune	Pear VC
$—Unknown date	Piston	Pear VC
$15MUnknown date	Pahdo Labs	Pear VC
$9MUnknown date	Known	Pear VC
$1MUnknown date	TrueMeter	Pear VC
$3MUnknown date	AKKO	Pear VC
$75MUnknown date	Nobell	Pear VC
$13MUnknown date	Brico	Pear VC
$4MUnknown date	Resiquant	Pear VC
$12MUnknown date	Boxbot	Pear VC
$—Unknown date	Zippin	Pear VC
$—Unknown date	Atticus	Pear VC
$22MUnknown date	Valar Labs	Pear VC
$2MUnknown date	ProhostAI	Y Combinator, Pear VC
$4MUnknown date	Truth Systems	Lightspeed, F-Prime Capital, Y Combinator, Gradient Ventures, Pear VC, The LegalTech Fund
$15MUnknown date	Windborne	Khosla Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, Pear VC, Susa Ventures, Convective Capital
$25MUnknown date	Local Kitchens	General Catalyst, Human Ventures, Pear VC, Fifth Wall, Penny Jar Capital
$—Unknown date	Osmind	General Catalyst, DFJ Growth, Y Combinator, Pear VC, Susa Ventures
$40MUnknown date	Nightfall AI	Bain Capital, Venrock, Webb Investment Network, Pear VC, WestBridge Capital, Next Play Ventures
$4M2025-11-20	Parallax Worlds	Pear VC
$4M2025-05-21	Pay-i	Pear VC
$6M2025-02-06	DevAI	Pear VC, Arash Afrakhteh, Mar Hershenson
$4M2025	EcoTrove	Flex Capital, Pear VC
$8M2022-02-24	Slope Finance	Pear VC
$12M2017-10-23	Solvvy	Pear VC
$15M2015-10-20	Honestbee	Pear VC
$2M2014-01-14	Washio	Pear VC
$200M2007-12-19	Gerson Lehrman Group	Pear VC
$5MUnknown date	Range Biotechnologies	Pear VC
$1MUnknown date	DevAI	Pear VC
$2MUnknown date	Pearl Street	Pear VC

Team

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