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Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Menlo Park, CA 94025
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1800 Owens St
San Francisco, CA 94158
USA
San Francisco, CA 94158
USA
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We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. We partner with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies.
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Pejman Nozad, Founding Managing Partner
Palo Alto, CA
USA
USA
Sector Focus:
Software
Life Science
Biotech
SaaS
AI
Stage Focus:
Pre-Seed Round
Seed Round
Series A Round
Pejman is the Co-Founder and Founding Managing Partner of Pear VC. Over the past two decades, he has been a seed investor in some of the most iconic tech companies including Doordash, Dropbox, Applovin, Gusto, Guardant Health, Branch, Aurora Solar, Soundhound, CourseHero, and others.
As an immigrant from Iran, Pejman did...
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Mar Hershenson, Founding Managing Partner
Los Altos, CA
USA
USA
Sector Focus:
B2B
Consumer
AI
Stage Focus:
Pre-Seed Round
Seed Round
Series A Round
Mar is Pear’s Founding Managing Partner. After earning a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Mar developed a groundbreaking technique of optimizing the design of analog semiconductors. Since then, she has accrued over 13 years of founder experience, co-founding three startups in mobile/ecommerce, enterprise software and semiconductor industries and...
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Ajay Kamat, Partner
San Francisco, CA
USA
USA
Sector Focus:
Software
Life Science
Biotech
AI
Stage Focus:
Pre-Seed Round
Seed Round
Series A Round
Ajay is a Partner at Pear and first joined the Pear family as a portfolio company founder. Previously, he was CEO of Wedding Party, a company he scaled and ran for 5 years before selling to Instacart. As an entrepreneur, he has built products that have failed, and others which...
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