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    Pear VC

    Menlo Park, California, United StatesFounded 2013

    Pear VC is a venture capital firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed-stage investments, partnering with founders at the earliest stages to transform ideas into category-defining companies. Their strategy involves a hands-on approach, offering extensive support in areas such as product-market fit, go-to-market strategies, recruiting, and fundraising across diverse sectors like AI, consumer tech, SaaS, enterprise tech, healthcare, deep tech, fintech, biotech, and climate tech.

    Deal activity increased 50% year-over-year (18 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is seed (40% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $20.1M (across 57 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    57

    Fund Size

    $800M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    18

    Team

    MH

    Mar Hershenson

    Founding Managing Partner

    Pejman Nozad

    Pejman Nozad

    Founding Managing Partner

    Ajay Kamat

    Ajay Kamat

    Partner

    Arash Afrakhteh

    Arash Afrakhteh

    Partner

    Eddie Eltoukhy

    Eddie Eltoukhy

    Partner

    HS

    Harris Stolzenberg

    Partner

    PB

    Payam Banazadeh

    Visiting Partner, PearX

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    57 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Burst logoBurstSeed$2.1MMar 2026
    Listen Labs logoListen LabsSeries B$69MJan 2026
    Quadric logoQuadricSeries C$30MJan 2026
    Known logoKnownSeed$9.7MDec 2025
    BBobyardSeries A$35MDec 2025
    Gravis Robotics logoGravis RoboticsSeries B$23MNov 2025
    Socratix AI logoSocratix AISeed$4.1MOct 2025
    SalesPatriot logoSalesPatriotSeed$4.2MOct 2025
    Zag Bio logoZag BioSeries A$80MOct 2025
    Neura Health logoNeura HealthSeries A$11.4MSep 2025
    wexler.ai logowexler.aiSeed$5.3MSep 2025
    Cardless logoCardlessSeries C$60MSep 2025
    Remuner logoRemunerSeed$5.5MSep 2025
    Dealops logoDealopsSeed$7MAug 2025
    Axle Health logoAxle HealthSeries A$10MMay 2025
    Spur logoSpurSeed$4.5MApr 2025
    Series logoSeriesPre-Seed$3.1MApr 2025
    ConfigHub logoConfigHubSeed$4MMar 2025
    Tyba logoTybaSeries A$13.9MFeb 2025
    Federato logoFederatoSeries C$40MNov 2024
    Counsel Health logoCounsel HealthSeed$11MOct 2024
    Heeyo logoHeeyoSeed$3.5MAug 2024
    OnRamp logoOnRampSeries A$14.2MJul 2024
    Orby AI logoOrby AISeries A$30MJun 2024
    Local Kitchens logoLocal KitchensSeries B$40MJun 2024
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    Top Co-Investors

    Monashees3 shared
    OpenAI3 shared
    Y Combinator3 shared
    Accomplice3 shared
    Ubiquity Ventures3 shared
    Convective Capital3 shared
    SV Angel2 shared
    NXTP2 shared
    ONEVC2 shared
    MAYA Capital2 shared

    Last updated: 8 March 2026