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PPear VC portfolio
Pear VC has 225 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 8 investments in the last 12 months.
About this page
It is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, US, founded in 2013. It led 3 of the 247 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Presonance's Pre-seed round in October 2026, alongside Peter Bell. By category, its portfolio leans toward Health and bio (47) and Consumer and social (39). It has co-invested with GV, Emergence Capital and Caffeinated Capital, most often GV (5 rounds).
About Pear VC
Funds raised
| Fund | Fund # | Size | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|
| V | $333M | Yahoo Finance | |
Bay Area | II | $75M | techcrunch.com |
Bay Area | Ifirst fund | $40M | tech.fortune.cnn.com |
Pear VC team
- Mar HershensonFounder Managing Partner
P - Pejman NozadFounding Managing Partner · Founder
P - Ajay KamatPartner
P - Arash AfrakhtehPartner
P - Harris StolzenbergPartner
P - Khalil FullerPartner & Head of Dorm
P - Pepe AgellPartner
P - Ryan SellsPartner
P - Shravan ReddyPartner
P - Shruti MerchantPartner
P - Andrew ParambathVenture Partner
P - Eddie EltoukhyVenture Partner
P - Warren ShaefferVenture Partner
P - Alex GaoEngineer · Employee
P - Emma KrivosheinSenior Operations Associate · Employee
P - Jenny ThaiHead of Marketing · Employee
P - Kevin CrabbeProduct Engineer · Employee
P - Lauren ConconExecutive Assistant · Employee
P - Mark ValdezCOO · Employee
P - Mel ApostolOperations Associate · Employee
P - Nate HirschTalent · Employee
P - Xiaoying PanController · Employee
P - Aparna SinhaAdvisor
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What Pear VC invests in
- Health and bio · 47 · 21%
- Consumer and social · 39 · 17%
- Fintech · 34 · 15%
- Climate and energy · 13 · 6%
- Developer tools and cloud · 11 · 5%
- Education · 11 · 5%
- Logistics and mobility · 11 · 5%
- AI agents · 11 · 5%
How Pear VC invests
Pear VC portfolio companies 225 companies, page 2 of 2
| 1 | | 2 |
AAviaryround
QQuansaround
CCamberroundFFlexportround
RRemunerroundOOpenfortround
RReal Sportround- PPom Healthround
CConfigHubround
SSparse Labsround
WWedding PartyroundAAcelyround
KKeeboround
IImprimedround
PPillsortedround
QQuno AIroundIInfinimmuneround
SSeven Starlinground
RRelyround
PPolimorphicround
GGuard OwlroundBBurstround
RRange BiotechnologiesroundPPartheanbacker
HHoodlinebacker
| Company | Round with Pear VC | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Health and bio |
round | undisclosed | — |
Fintech |
round | undisclosed | — |
AI agents |
round | undisclosed | — |
Logistics and mobility |
round | undisclosed | Jan 19, 2024 round |
HR and recruiting |
round | $6.5M | Sep 9, 2025 Seed |
| round | $3M | May 22, 2023 Seed | |
Consumer and social |
round | undisclosed | — |
| PPom Health Insurance |
round | undisclosed | — |
| round | undisclosed | — | |
Robotics and hardware |
round | undisclosed | — |
Consumer and social |
round | undisclosed | — |
Education |
round | undisclosed | — |
Developer tools and cloud |
round | undisclosed | Jul 13, 2026 Series A |
Health and bio |
round | undisclosed | Dec 19, 2023 Series A |
Health and bio |
round | undisclosed | — |
| round | undisclosed | — | |
Health and bio |
round | undisclosed | — |
Health and bio |
round | undisclosed | — |
Health and bio |
round | undisclosed | — |
Fintech |
round | undisclosed | Nov 13, 2023 Seed |
| round | undisclosed | Feb 20, 2026 Seed | |
Fintech |
round | $2.1M | Feb 25, 2026 Seed |
Health and bio |
round | $5.2M | Jun 12, 2023 Seed |
Fintech |
backer | undisclosed | — |
Sales and marketing |
backer | undisclosed | — |
| 1 | | 2 |
Most frequent co-investors
GGV5 shared rounds · last Jul 1, 2022
EEmergence Capital4 shared rounds · last Nov 18, 2025
CCaffeinated Capital4 shared rounds · last Nov 18, 2025
KKleiner Perkins4 shared rounds · last Apr 7, 2022
UUncork Capital3 shared rounds · last Jul 14, 2026
TTiger Global Management3 shared rounds · last May 10, 2022
SSusa Ventures3 shared rounds · last May 10, 2022
CCRV3 shared rounds · last Apr 7, 2022
TThreshold Ventures3 shared rounds · last Apr 7, 2022
BBEENEXT2 shared rounds · last Jul 14, 2026
OOffline Ventures2 shared rounds · last Jul 14, 2026
SSilicon Catalyst Ventures2 shared rounds · last Feb 16, 2026
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TTechstars243 companies · 7 deals in 12 moBBoost VC243 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
BBerkeley SkyDeck350 companies
GGoogle for Startups Accelerator481 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
EEntrepreneur First553 companies · 2 deals in 12 mo
PPlug and Play5338 companies · 14 deals in 12 mo
Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Health and bio).
How this is counted
Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.
Venture funds Pear VC raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.
People named as working at Pear VC on a public page: the firm's own site, their profiles, filings or press. Each source logo links the page that names them.
Share is of the 247 rounds on Recent Funding that name Pear VC. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.
Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Pear VC, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/pear-vc (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.