Pear VC
Menlo Park, CA · Invests in US · Website
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Exceptional founders backed at pre-seed and seed with both capital and hands-on operational support—talent, GTM, fundraising—build the most enduring companies. Pear is founder-first: founders-and-operators turned investors who have been in founders' shoes.
Likely not a fit for
Growth/late-stage, Series B and beyond (no growth capital strategy). Not a passive financial investor—requires active partnership.
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~1 month
- Warm intro
- Not required
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $800M
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
17 contacts on file
Portfolio
DoorDash is an on-demand delivery platform that connects customers with local restaurants, grocery stores, and retailers. It allows users to order food, groceries, alcohol, and convenience items directly from the DoorDash website or app.
Guardant Health is focused on conquering cancer through data-driven insights and precision oncology, offering blood tests that provide critical information for patients at all stages of cancer.
Gusto provides online payroll and HR solutions designed to support small businesses. With a focus on automating payroll processes and offering comprehensive HR services, Gusto aims to simplify the management of employee benefits, compliance, and talent management for over 400,000 businesses.
Aurora Solar is the world's leading solar design software, providing tools for residential and commercial solar installations, including sales and design modes, financing integrations, and expert design services.
Branch is a mobile attribution platform and app analytics solutions provider that helps enterprises maximize their digital strategy and improve customer engagement through advanced data analytics and compliance.
Viz.ai is an AI-powered care coordination platform that enhances healthcare delivery through advanced technology solutions.
Affinity is a global adtech leader that identifies untapped opportunities in digital advertising, providing innovative solutions for publishers and advertisers to engage and monetize their target audiences across the purchase funnel.
Vanta provides automated compliance solutions to help businesses achieve and maintain compliance with various standards such as SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR. Their platform integrates with over 400 tools to streamline compliance processes, manage risks, and automate security workflows.
Cognition AI develops Devin, an AI software engineer, and partners with Infosys for deployment. It focuses on security, data privacy, and compliance.
Frubana is a company offering promotions and terms for purchases via its app and website. It runs various promotions, including cashback offers and giveaways.
Senti Bio is a clinical-stage company developing a new generation of cell and gene therapies for patients living with incurable diseases. Leveraging a synthetic biology platform, they engineer Gene Circuits into medicines designed to precisely kill cancer cells while sparing healthy cells.
BioAge Labs is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic product candidates for metabolic diseases by targeting the biology of human aging.
Recent activity
- Feb 2026
Burst
Seed · Lead
- Feb 2026
Amari
Series A · Lead
- Jan 2026
Listen Labs
Series B · Participated
- Jan 2026
Quadric IO
Series C · Participated
- Jan 2026
Snout
Seed · Participated
- Dec 2025
Bobyard
Series A · Lead
- Dec 2025
Federato
Series D · Participated
- Nov 2025
Coverbase
Series A · Participated
Pear VC in the news
Opportunity Desk
Pear VC Fellows Program 2026
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Dealroom
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2 months ago
Business Wire
Kin Health Raises $9M To Give Patients a Record of Their Own Care
3 months ago
Business Insider
2 Yale students raised $5 million to help supercharge your career. Read their networking startup's pitch deck.
3 months ago
Failory
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
The Brown Daily Herald
Silicon Valley meets College Hill: Venture capital presence expands at Brown
10 months ago
Venture Capital Journal
University of Chicago endowment PE chief leaves amid financial challenges
11 months ago
UK Tech Investment News
Wexler AI secures £3.9 million Seed Investment led by Pear VC
11 months ago
The SaaS News
Dealops Raises $7 Million in Funding
Aug 2025
Reuters
AI startup by Columbia graduates raises $7 million to target midsize law firms
Aug 2025
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Power of a Shared Ecosystem: 27 Midwest Startups Pitch at Deep Tech Demo Day in San Francisco
Jul 2025
AlleyWatch
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 4/23/2025
Apr 2025
GlobeNewswire
Spur Raises $4.5M from First Round, Pear VC, Neo, Conviction and Others to Build Out its Quality Analysis AI Agent
Apr 2025
Microsoft
Microsoft and Pear VC join forces to drive AI innovation
Jan 2025
TechCrunch
Our favorite startups from Pear VC’s invitational demo day
Oct 2024
TechCrunch
Pear wants to empower up-and-coming VCs with its new emerging managers in residence program
Sep 2024
Newcomer | Substack
Tech & Hollywood, a Sequel...AI Powers a Q2 Funding Boom...Pear VC in the VC Directory
Jul 2024
Built In
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May 2024
Venture Capital Journal
Pear’s secret to success: Do one thing really well
Jun 2023
Business Wire
Pear VC Closes an Oversubscribed $432 Million Seed Fund
May 2023
Bloomberg.com
DoorDash-Backer Pear VC Raises $432 Million for Seed Venture Fund
May 2023
CNBC
Venture capitalists urge startups to withdraw funds from crisis-laden Silicon Valley Bank
Mar 2023
Forbes
Inside Pear VC’s Tiny Startup Accelerator That’s Creating An Alternative To Y Combinator
Nov 2021
dot.LA
Pear VC’s Pejman Nozad on Going from Carpet Salesman to Early-Stage VC
Oct 2021
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