Mar Hershenson
Founding Managing Partner @ Pear VC
San Francisco, United States
Mar Hershenson is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage investment firm in Palo Alto. At Pear VC, Mar works closely with founders to take companies from an idea to a category defining business. Mar has been recognized in the Midas List in 2021. Mar received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2000for her breakthrough work in circuit design automation, and taught the Analog Circuit Design course at Stanford for over a decade. Mar made her mark as an entrepreneur by co-founding three companies: Barcelona Design, Sabio Labs, and Revel Touch. She ran each company from day one, being deeply involved in all aspects of the business, including product definition and development, business strategy, sales, recruiting, and financing. Post the acquisition of Sabio labs, Mar served as VP of Product Development for Magma Design Automation's Mixed Signal division. Mar has received many awards throughout her career. Among them, the renown T35 Young Innovator Award by MIT (for her technical work), and the prestigious Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award in 2010 (for her work in entrepreneurship). Mar currently serves on the board of Harvey Mudd College, Palo Alto Community Child Care and is a technical advisor to the U.S. Soccer Federation.
- Total investments:
- 48
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
Last updated:
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Industries Mar Hershenson invests in
Stages Mar Hershenson invests in
Countries Mar Hershenson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (23%)
- Information Technology 9 (19%)
- SaaS 5 (10%)
- Machine Learning 4 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 20 (42%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (25%)
- Series A 10 (21%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
- Series C 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 34 (71%)
- Colombia 1 (2%)
Investments
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| Quadric develops semiconductor intellectual property and tools for on-device artificial intelligence computing. The company creates the Chimera general-purpose neural processing unit family that supports machine learning inference and traditional data processing in a unified architecture. It provides a software development kit and design resourcesthat help chip designers integrate AI capabilities into custom silicon. Quadric engages with developers and hardware teams to support diverse AI workloads across edge devices, automotive systems, and industrial applications. | $16M / Series C / Jul 14, 2026 | ||
| Moda is an AI-powered design and content platform that enables go-to-market (GTM) teams to create, edit, and scale branded assets without the high costs or slow turnaround times of traditional creative agencies. | $7.5M / Seed / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| Construction is one of the largest industries in the world, but it is also one of the least technologically innovative spaces. Conducting fast and accurate cost estimates is a massive pain point because of the tedious nature of takeoffs (measuring & counting materials needed from the drawings). Bobyard automates the construction takeoff processwith CV and NLP models to make cost estimates 10x faster while eliminating mistakes. We are a lean startup backed by some of the best VCs in the world: Primary and Pear. Almost all of the work lies ahead of us. We are excited to create next-gen software for the built world! | $35M / Series A / Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| Truth Systems offers real-time compliance agents that prevent human error by embedding behavioral guardrails into AI interactions. | $4M / Seed / Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Seven Starling is a digital clinic uniquely focused on treatment for perinatal mental health conditions like postpartum depression and anxiety. Through a combination of individualized therapy, peer support, and medication, its evidence-based care model is backed by research that shows that 90% of patients will feel better within 3 months. | $8M / Series A / Sep 18, 2025 | ||
| Flax Health is an AI-powered workflow automation platform specifically designed for skilled nursing facilities. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 04, 2025 | ||
Mithram Labs
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Mithram Labs provides software that supports critical emergency responses. | Pre-Seed / Aug 23, 2025 | |
| August specializes in configurable legal AI platforms tailored for law firms and legal professionals. August offers a personalized approach to legal AI deployment, working closely with client firms to build custom workflows and generate legal documents, such as Word or PDF files, according to specific firm standards. The company emphasizes secureingestion of a firm’s sample matters, templates, and guidelines, delivering highly tailored AI-assisted legal work product rather than generalized outputs. | $7M / Seed / Aug 05, 2025 | ||
| Axle Health provides scheduling and workforce management software for home health care providers. The Axle platform includes a mobile app for clinicians, an operations dashboard for office teams, proprietary logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, and a patient engagement and booking solution. Axle is integrated with a wide range of EMRs, andthe entire Axle product can be customized and accessed modularly via API. Some of the biggest home health care providers in the country use Axle’s software to improve the utilization of their clinical teams, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching. | $10M / Series A / May 22, 2025 | ||
| Glide operates as a fintech platform that modernize community banks and credit unions. | $15M / Series A / May 08, 2025 | ||
| See all 48 investments → | |||
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 are building 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
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Arpan Shah
Visiting Partner
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Eddie Eltoukhy
Partner
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What does Mar Hershenson invest in?
Mar Hershenson invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 48 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Mar Hershenson closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 48 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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