Pear VC
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Pear VC is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. 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.
- Total investments:
- 528
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
- Fund size:
- $3.4M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Pear VC invests in
Stages Pear VC invests in
Countries Pear VC invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $175k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $8.5M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 91 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 79 (15%)
- Information Technology 47 (9%)
- Health Care 37 (7%)
- SaaS 34 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 218 (41%)
- Pre-Seed 123 (23%)
- Series A 91 (17%)
- Series B 28 (5%)
- Series C 11 (2%)
Country
- United States 279 (53%)
- Brazil 4 (1%)
- Colombia 4 (1%)
- Spain 3 (1%)
- India 2 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Addison Leong
Director of Engineering
|
Director of Engineering | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ajay Kamat
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Arash Afrakhteh
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
Arpan Shah
Visiting Partner
|
Visiting Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Eddie Eltoukhy
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phinity Labs builds AI systems designed to fully automate the entire silicon microchip engineering process, spanning from original architectural concepts to final manufacturing preparation. | $5.2M / Seed / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Presonance provides brain-based creative testing for agencies and research partners. Its platform simulates audience responses to videos, images, and scripts to assess how creative content may influence viewer behavior. Users can analyze audience responses moment by moment and use the results to evaluate and refine campaigns before launch. Presonance also provides sample analyses and research-backed insights for creative testing. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Hertha Metals is a manufacturing industry that designs and manufactures steel from any grade of iron ore without the use of coal. | $65M / Series A / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Payments technology company for the logistics Industry | $15M / Series A / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| From PA generation to appeals, enrollments, & pharmacy navigation, Forus handles the end-to-end medication access process. Forus supports every drug, insurance, and pharmacy to help patients get access to life-changing medications. | $150M / Series C / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Vals.ai improves model benchmarks by focusing on industry tasks, addressing compromised leaderboards, and ensuring transparent evaluations. | $40M / Series A / Aug 13, 2026 | ||
| Infinimmune operates as a biotechnology company. Infinimmune reinvents antibody discovery with an end-to-end platform to deliver antibody drugs derived directly from the human immune system. | $75M / Series A / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| Maximum is a boutique agency that likes to remain small and agile. There are sixty of us, all specialists, and our advanced digital solutions are 100% generated in-house. We have a knowledgeable and sophisticated research presence, especially in the digital arena and with regard to social recruitment. This means we can make things happen for youthat other agencies can't. Giving your organization the edge takes serious research, heavyweight strategy, considered creativity and intelligent use of the digital space. This is why we've developed the Social Recruitment Monitor™ for you, the definitive index on the use of social media for recruitment purposes. | $30M / Seed / Aug 03, 2026 | ||
| Lambda Surgical develops LambdaGuide, a spatial guidance platform adding real-time measurement and navigation to surgical endoscopes. | $6.5M / Seed / Aug 03, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| See all 528 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Pear VC invest in?
Pear VC invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 528 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Pear VC invest in?
Pear VC typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$9M at Seed, $175k–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $8.5M–$40M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Pear VC's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Pear VC took part in.
How do I contact Pear VC?
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Who are the partners at Pear VC?
The team at Pear VC includes Addison Leong (Director of Engineering), Ajay Kamat (Partner) and Arash Afrakhteh (Partner), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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