VC  Pear Ventures

https://www.pear.vc/





     Office Locations:

320 High Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301

 

Stages:

  • Seed


 

Industries:

  • Information Technology
  • Software & Internet

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    Description:

    Formerly known as Pejman Mar, Pear Ventures is an early-stage fund that invests in exceptional founders building amazing companies. Pear's founding partners take no salary, and all of their resources (personnel, network, space) are devoted to helping their invested companies achieve their goals. The fund was founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, who have historically seeded very early stage tech start-ups such as Dropbox, Lending Club, Zoosk, Addepar, Path and many others. Pear portfolio companies over the past 6 years have a total valuation of $29B and have raised $5B in capital.


     

    Funds:


      Fund Name


      Amount


      Date

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    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Ajay Kamat Partner
    Debby Schilling CFO
    Lily Johnson Operations Manager
    Mar Hershenson Founding Managing Partner
    Nils Bunger Partner

     

    Recent Funding Events (trailing 12 months):


      Date


      Name


      State


      Amount


      Stage


      10/30/2024


      Matter Intelligence


      CA


      $12,000,000


      Seed


      10/22/2024


      Counsel Health


      NY


      $11,000,000


      Seed


      10/05/2024


      GC Therapeutics


      MA


      $65,000,000


      Series A


      07/18/2024


      OnRamp


      MA


      $14,200,000


      Seed and Series A


      06/12/2024


      Learn to Win


      CA


      $30,000,000


      Series A


      06/03/2024


      Valar Labs


      CA


      $22,000,000


      Series A


      05/16/2024


      Honey Homes


      CA


      $9,250,000


      Series A-1


      05/05/2024


      Portal Biotechnologies


      MA


      $5,000,000


      Pre-Seed


      03/14/2024


      Redcoat AI


      CA


      $4,240,000


      Seed


      03/04/2024


      Topsort


      CA


      $20,000,000


      Series A


     

    Portfolio companies include:


      Aaptiv


      Affinity


      Aklivity
        web link


      Aurora Solar


      Boxbot
        web link


      Branch Metrics
        web link


      Counsel Health
        web link


      Darwin Homes
        web link


      DoorDash


      Federato
        web link


      Foresight Diagnostics
        web link


      GC Therapeutics
        web link


      Gfycat
        web link


      Guardant Health
        web link


      Honey Homes
        web link


      Juni Learning
        web link


      Knoetic
        web link


      Learn to Win
        web link


      Matter Intelligence
        web link


      Memebox
        web link


      Neura Health
        web link


      Nightfall AI
        web link


      Nobell Foods
        web link


      OnRamp
        web link


      Orby AI
        web link


      Osmind
        web link


      Pando
        web link


      Polarr
        web link


      Polimorphic
        web link


      Portal Biotechnologies
        web link


      Redcoat AI
        web link


      Ripple.co
        web link


      Senti Biosciences
        web link


      Solvvy
        web link


      Thinknum


      Topsort
        web link


      Valar Labs


      Washio
        web link


      Xilis


     

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