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Pear VC
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Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed specialist that partners with founders at the earliest stages—sometimes before a product even exists—to build category-defining companies. The firm's thesis is rooted in the conviction that exceptional founders, backed early with both capital and hands-on operational support (talent, GTM, fundraising, PR), build the most enduring companies. Pear positions itself as 'founders-and-operators turned investors': its team has collectively founded 13+ companies and brings deep functional expertise across AI, Consumer, SaaS, Enterprise Tech, Healthcare, Deep Tech, Fintech, Biotech, and Climate Tech. Pear operates two investment pathways: PearX, a small-batch accelerator for pre-seed companies ($250K–$2M checks), and a direct Seed Program ($1M–$6M checks), with follow-on capacity up to $10M. The firm's philosophy is explicitly founder-first—'if you get one of us, you get all of us as partners.'
Notable quotes
“Our strategy hasn't changed since day one. We want to build the best-performing seed fund that ever existed by partnering with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages—sometimes at the idea stage and even pre-idea—and then helping them to get to product-market fit.”
“I wake up every morning and I think we're going to go out of business by the end of the day. So that's the mentality. It doesn't matter if you have $400 million or $4 million or $4 billion. I want to stay on my toes. DoorDash performance, or Guardant Health, that doesn't mean anything about Fund IV.”
“Pear has always invested very early, at the zero stage. Experience and focus on partnering with founders to find Product Market Fit (PMF). Most investors in our firm have been founders and we know how hard and intense it is to go through the search of PMF.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| DoorDash | Seed | — | 2013 |
| Gusto | Seed | — | 2012 |
| Guardant Health | Seed | — | 2012 |
| Vanta | Seed | — | 2018 |
| Aurora Solar | Seed | — | 2018 |
| Branch | Seed | — | 2014 |
| Viz.ai | Seed | — | 2016 |
| Cardless | Series C | $60m | 2025 |
| Sweatpals | Seed | $12m | 2025 |
| Brico | Series A | $14m | 2025 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) | 12 |
| Khosla Ventures | 6 |
| Caffeinated Capital | 6 |
| Founders Fund | 4 |
| General Catalyst | 4 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 3 |
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