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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 60% year-over-year (24 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is series-a (44% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $19.8M (across 92 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    93

    Fund Size

    $800M

    Top Stage

    Series A

    Last 12 Mo

    24

    Team

    Mar Hershenson

    Mar Hershenson

    Managing Partner

    PN

    Pejman Nozad

    Founding Managing Partner

    AA

    Arash Afrakhteh

    Partner

    Harris Stolzenberg

    Harris Stolzenberg

    Partner

    AK

    Ajay Kamat

    Partner

    EE

    Eddie Eltoukhy

    Partner

    PB

    Payam Banazadeh

    Visiting Partner, PearX

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    93 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    IInsight HealthSeries A$11MApr 2026
    NNomadicSeed$8.4MMar 2026
    Moda logoModaSeed$7.5MMar 2026
    Burst logoBurstSeed$2.1MMar 2026
    Amari AI logoAmari AISeed$4.5MFeb 2026
    Snout logoSnoutSeries A$10MJan 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
    PParallax WorldsSeed$4MNov 2025
    OnRamp logoOnRampSeries A$15MNov 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
    Pay-i logoPay-iSeed$4.9MMay 2025
    Spur logoSpurSeed$4.5MApr 2025
    Series logoSeriesPre-Seed$3.1MApr 2025
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    Top Co-Investors

    8VC4 shared
    Monashees3 shared
    OpenAI3 shared
    Y Combinator3 shared
    Conviction Partners3 shared
    Energize Ventures3 shared
    Accomplice3 shared
    Wing VC3 shared
    Footwork3 shared
    Ubiquity Ventures3 shared

    Last updated: 10 April 2026