Pear VC
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, CA
- Website
- pear.vc
- Type
- Seed / early-stage
- Stage
- Pre-seed–Seed
- Focus
- Generalist
About
Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture firm with offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park. Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson launched it as Pejman Mar Ventures in August 2013 and renamed it Pear VC three years later. Pre-seed founders join PearX, a 12-week accelerator that runs twice a year with no more than 25 teams per cohort and investments of $500K to $2M; early-stage investments go up to $10M. Its fintech focus covers consumer finance, banking infrastructure, payments, fraud and risk, lending and wealthtech, alongside AI, B2B, biotech, consumer, deep tech and healthcare. Portfolio companies named on its site include DoorDash, Gusto, Vanta and Cognition.
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