Pear VC

Pear is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, based in Menlo Park, California. The firm specializes in investing in technology companies across various sectors, including consumer, business-to-business, healthcare, biotech, fintech, climate tech, SaaS, and deep tech. Pear targets exceptional founders who are building innovative companies and provides extensive support to help them succeed. The firm has a history of seeding successful startups such as Dropbox and Lending Club, emphasizing its commitment to fostering entrepreneurial talent in North America.

Arash Afrakhteh

Partner

Pepe Agell

Partner

Jose Agell

Partner

Narges Baniasadi

Operating Partner

Keith Bender

Partner

Eddie Eltoukhy

Partner

Mar Hershenson

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Vivien Ho

Partner

Udit Jain

Investor

Danielle Jing

Investor

Ajay Kamat

Partner

Pedram Kayani

Operating Partner

Skye Lee

Operational Partner

Aparna Sinha

Partner

Roya Soleimani

Operating Partner

Jo Zhu

Investor

Past deals in CRM

Cooby

Seed Round in 2022
Cooby is a customer relationship management platform that specializes in enhancing communication for sales professionals. It offers tools that enable users to automatically create detailed client profiles, document meetings, track conversations, and manage tasks efficiently. By focusing on messaging, Cooby provides a customer-management solution that aims to foster strong, long-lasting relationships between individuals and their clients. This platform is designed to streamline the sales process, allowing users to maintain organized records and improve their interactions with customers.

Smarty

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Smarty is a United States-based company that specializes in developing an online schedule automation tool. This application is designed to streamline and manage various business tasks, including scheduling meetings, facilitating introductions, and locating flights for out-of-town engagements. By automating these processes, Smarty aims to enhance efficiency and productivity for its users.

Affinity

Series C in 2021
Project Affinity, Inc. develops network and customer relationship management solutions for enterprises. Its solutions feature relationships management, email detection, Omni search, network intelligence, automatic data capture, collaboration and reminders, and chrome extension. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Redwood City, California.

OnRamp

Seed Round in 2021
OnRamp is software that helps teams infuse world-class customer onboarding into their DNA. Using OnRamp, new customers are invited to a powerful, collaborative web experience that guides them to success, with everything they need in one place. The result is healthier customers, improved productivity, and higher net retention. Try for free: https://try.onramp.us/try-for-free

Wage

Seed Round in 2021
We're building best-in-class API infrastructure for instant income and employment verification. Our vision is to expand the ways to verify financial identity and create a new modern standard for credit reporting.

Cooby

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cooby is a customer relationship management platform that specializes in enhancing communication for sales professionals. It offers tools that enable users to automatically create detailed client profiles, document meetings, track conversations, and manage tasks efficiently. By focusing on messaging, Cooby provides a customer-management solution that aims to foster strong, long-lasting relationships between individuals and their clients. This platform is designed to streamline the sales process, allowing users to maintain organized records and improve their interactions with customers.

Relay

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Relay offers a free software solution designed to assist small businesses in managing appointments, accepting payments, and booking customers efficiently. It serves as a one-tap customer experience platform, integrating essential business tools and facilitating straightforward communication. Service professionals using Relay can share estimated arrival times, send videos, provide status updates, and request payments, reviews, and referrals—all with a single tap. By streamlining these processes, Relay not only enhances customer experience but also contributes to business growth, revenue generation, and the long-term value of customer relationships.

EdgeDB

Seed Round in 2019
Through streamlined data model and powerful query language, we make working with data productive, pleasant and efficient for developers and data engineers.

Wage

Convertible Note in 2019
We're building best-in-class API infrastructure for instant income and employment verification. Our vision is to expand the ways to verify financial identity and create a new modern standard for credit reporting.

Affinity

Series B in 2019
Project Affinity, Inc. develops network and customer relationship management solutions for enterprises. Its solutions feature relationships management, email detection, Omni search, network intelligence, automatic data capture, collaboration and reminders, and chrome extension. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Redwood City, California.

ClearBrain

Seed Round in 2018
ClearBrain, Inc. is a company that specializes in self-serve predictive analytics software designed specifically for marketers. Founded in 2016 and based in Palo Alto, California, ClearBrain enables users to identify potential customer conversions and churn before they occur. The platform allows marketers to create predictive audiences and discover benchmarks for various conversion events through a user-friendly point-and-click interface. By integrating with popular analytics tools like Segment and Heap, ClearBrain automates data transformation for predictive modeling without requiring any coding. Marketers can easily sync predictive audiences to their remarketing tools to enhance user retention and overall campaign effectiveness. As of March 2020, ClearBrain operates as a subsidiary of Amplitude Analytics, Inc., and is supported by experienced engineers with backgrounds in machine learning and marketing automation.

Affinity

Series A in 2017
Project Affinity, Inc. develops network and customer relationship management solutions for enterprises. Its solutions feature relationships management, email detection, Omni search, network intelligence, automatic data capture, collaboration and reminders, and chrome extension. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Affinity

Series A in 2015
Project Affinity, Inc. develops network and customer relationship management solutions for enterprises. Its solutions feature relationships management, email detection, Omni search, network intelligence, automatic data capture, collaboration and reminders, and chrome extension. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Redwood City, California.
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