Arash Afrakhteh
Partner @ Pear VC
San Francisco, United States
Arash Afrakhteh is a seed investor at Pear VC in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Arash Afrakhteh currently works as a Partner for Cleveland Cavaliers. He previously worked at Phoenix Suns as a VP of Engineering, Co-Founder, and board of Directors. Arash Afrakhteh attended Sharif University of Technology.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Arash Afrakhteh invests in
Stages Arash Afrakhteh invests in
Countries Arash Afrakhteh invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (33%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (33%)
- SaaS 1 (8%)
- Web Apps 1 (8%)
- Analytics 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (33%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Hilt
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Security Layer for Vibecoding | Pre-Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | |
Hilt
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Data Movement Governance | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | |
Typedef
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Typedef is a specifically designed AI data infrastructure platform that incorporates LLM inference and unstructured data processing directly into analytical workflows. | $5.5M / Seed / Jun 18, 2025 | |
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ConfigHub Inc.
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Cloud-based configuration platform for modern application teams | $4M / Pre-Seed / Mar 26, 2025 | |
DevAI
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DevAI builds Network Intelligence Agents to help enterprise IT teams accelerate productivity and improve their source of truth. | $6M / Seed / Feb 06, 2025 | |
Advex AI
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Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours. | $3.5M / Seed / Nov 04, 2024 | |
Orby AI
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Orby AI is an AI platform designed to bring the auto-complete experience to everyday business users and automate all mundane tasks. Orby monitors a user's activity, finds recurring work steps, and develops code that eventually automates these jobs. | $30M / Series A / Jun 27, 2024 | |
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DevAI
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DevAI builds Network Intelligence Agents to help enterprise IT teams accelerate productivity and improve their source of truth. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Apr 12, 2024 | |
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Orby AI
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Orby AI is an AI platform designed to bring the auto-complete experience to everyday business users and automate all mundane tasks. Orby monitors a user's activity, finds recurring work steps, and develops code that eventually automates these jobs. | $4.5M / Seed / May 10, 2023 | |
Aklivity
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Aklivity is building a universal API layer for streaming. Its open source API Gateway, “Zilla” (https://github.com/aklivity/zilla), provides a unified, external interface to event-driven services and data. Zilla natively supports a range of network and messaging protocols, including Kafka. This enables it to expose event-streamsto clients over their APIs of choice. Non-Kafka apps can now publish and subscribe to Kafka topics without the need for intermediary brokers, services and even Kafka Connect. | $4.1M / Seed / May 25, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Pear VC
Pear is an early-stage venture fund founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. Their co-founding managers have historically seeded very early stage tech start-ups such as Doordash, Guardant Health, Gusto, Viz.ai, Dropbox, Lending Club, Vanta, Zoosk, Addepar, Path and many others.Their motto is simple: they invest in exceptional founders who arebuilding amazing companies. They utilize every resource they have to assist their founders and entrepreneurs shape the future.
Pear VC Contacts
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Addison Leong
Director of Engineering
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Ajay Kamat
Partner
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Arash Afrakhteh
Partner
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Arpan Shah
Visiting Partner
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Eddie Eltoukhy
Partner
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FAQ
What does Arash Afrakhteh invest in?
Arash Afrakhteh invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Arash Afrakhteh's check size?
Arash Afrakhteh typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6M at Seed and $500k–$4M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Arash Afrakhteh participates in.
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When did Arash Afrakhteh last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Arash Afrakhteh closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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