We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed.
We’ve seeded companies worth over $170B.
We’re founders-and-operators turned-investors.
Our investing team has founded, scaled, and sold companies to the likes of Cisco, Instacart, and Medium.
Your first engineers, designers, and PMs, on us.
Our in-house recruiters have made over 175 hires for Pear companies— so we get how crucial it is.
Master your
founder-led sales.
With our tailored playbooks and 1:1 coaching hours you’ll navigate the market with the confidence to drive sustainable growth.
Fundraising, made easier.
We polish your story and pitch deck and build key introductions. We fund early, but we’re here to bring you across the finish line and way beyond.
We’re incredibly proud of the partnership we’ve built with our founders.
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Pejman and Mar and the Pear team’s philosophy has always been first and foremost to bet on the people.
Tony Xu
Co-Founder and CEO
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Pear provided an opportunity to hammer out 80% of the questions we got from investors. We were not even thinking about a lot of those questions.
Xiling Shen
CEO
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Through the Pear network, we found our CTO. We would not have been able to find, evaluate, and hire our technical co-founder without Pear.
Sami Tellatin
Co-Founder and COO
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Whether it’s fundraising prep, investor intros, or hiring the extended Pear team has always been there when we had an operational problem to solve.
William Ross
CEO and Co-Founder
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Pear Garage gave you a community and a network of friends, made it feel like you weren’t alone.
Ray Zhou
Co-Founder and CEO
Pear Studio is our state of the art office space for builders and founders, in San Francisco and Menlo Park.
Apply to our Female Founder Circles Spring 2025 cohort. Applications are now open!
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