United States · 
What does Pear VC invest in?
Pear VC invests most often at Seed and Series A (59% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Machine Learning, Advanced Materials and Advertising (AdTech).
Pear VC highlights
- 01
50 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Seed and Series A: 59% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 15 rounds, median $3.0M
What they do
We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- $150K – $4.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeed
- Sectors
- AI & Machine LearningAdvanced MaterialsAdvertising (AdTech)
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first251 appearances
- 2026
39 rounds
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
70 rounds
- Dec
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
MHMar HershensonManaging Member of Pear Ventures Management, LLCiForm ADV
PNPejman NowzadManaging Member of Pear Ventures Management, LLCiForm ADV
PNPejman NozadManaging Director of the ManageriFiling they signed
We also hold 26 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.2Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- PEAR Ventures Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 170211
Funds they back
1 fund commitment on record
- Managers
- 1
Every fund on record that it has committed money to, and the managers who invest it.Source: fund news.
Managers it backs most
Most recent commitments
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 3 we have independently watched raise
linklinklink
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.