Pear VC

Pre-seed + seed VC — DoorDash, Guardant Health

VC Seed 📍 Palo Alto, CA Founded 2013

AUM

$700M

as of 2026-Q1

SMALL

Pear VC was founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. Pre-seed + seed specialist with a strong Stanford-network sourcing model.

Firm Profile

Firm Type

Subtype

Seed

Founded

2013

Palo Alto, CA

Country

USA

Active Fund

Pear VC latest fund (Firecrawl-extracted) ($423M)

Pejman NozadMar HershensonMark Kvamme

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Sectors

Enterprise · Consumer · Bio

VCPre-SeedSeed

Investor data reflects publicly disclosed AUM, fund sizes, and portfolio holdings as of 2026-Q1. Refreshed periodically.