Pear Fellows

Pear Fellows is an apprenticeship program designed to supercharge your readiness for a career in venture capital. We’re committed to ensuring that the program maximizes the career trajectories of our Fellows and helps them on the next step of their journey.

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Who do we look for?

The program is highly selective and dedicated to students who are genuinely motivated to support entrepreneurs and develop their skills in venture. We want to collaborate with proactive people who think independently. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a strong entrepreneurial network or industry expertise, as well as a willingness to help us build our firm.

The Fellows program is limited to specific campuses to ensure that our team can provide focused attention. Our fellows program is currently at Stanford, Harvard, Penn, MIT, Berkeley, Columbia, Yale, and Princeton.

About Pear Fellows

Each year, Pear offers a select group of students the opportunity to work closely with our team. Founded in 2014, the Pear Fellowship is an immersive apprenticeship designed to supercharge your readiness for a career in venture capital. Our Fellows receive:

  • Unprecedented access to deal flow
  • Immersive training through Venture Summits
  • Ongoing educational curriculum via virtual sessions
  • Ownership of Pear events and programming on campus
  • Direction to conduct company due diligence and form sector theses at Pear

Pear VC’s fellowship program has given me a unique insight in the world of startups and venture capital. Working with Pear’s team of expert investors has been a fantastic experience, and I would highly recommend it!

Anaiy Somalwar Berkeley Fellow

Shaneez Mohinani

Pear’s Partners are generous with their time and mentorship, and the opportunity to directly learn from the best seed-stage investors in the Valley is unparalleled! The Fellows community is also so special, and has been tremendously helpful as I look to build a career in VC.

Shaneez Mohinani Stanford GSB Fellow

joy chen

The Pear Fellowship has done the most for my growth in the world of venture capital and startups, whether that’s involving me in live deals or giving me the opportunity to work with incredible people. All of the investors at Pear have been extremely welcoming and supportive of me and I’ve had the opportunity to meet so many cool people through the fellowship, like college students at other schools, startup founders, and many other people in the Pear network!

Joy Chen Wharton Fellow

margaret shen

The best part of my Pear Fellows experience was how much time I got to spend with investors debating perspectives on companies and industry trends. I couldn’t have gotten that level of interaction anywhere else. It’s helped develop my own sense on how to identify those special startups that you can get to such strong conviction about.

Margaret Shen Harvard Business School Fellow

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Pear Fellows alumni

Nicole Quinn

Nicole Quinn

Lightspeed

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Ibrahim Alsuwaidi

DCM

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Sam Rosen

GIC

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Sam Shapiro

DFJ

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Ian Taylor

Sequoia

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Anoushka Vaswani headshot

Anoushka Vaswani

Lightspeed

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Jennifer Ngai

DST Global

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Galym Imanbayev

Lightspeed

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Hesam Motlagh

Khosla

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Justine Huang

Industry Ventures

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Julia Klein

March CP

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Vivien Ho

Vivien Ho

Pear VC

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Patrick Lundgren

Flagship Pioneering

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Kumar Gautam

Sands Capital

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Joanna Lichter Cohen

Emerson Collective

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Chris Gaertner

OpenView

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James Rathmell

Haun Ventures

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Sarah Du

Bessemer

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Ana Clara Martins

Atlantico

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Brian Alter headshot

Brian Alter

B Capital

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Varun Ramakrishnan

General Atlantic

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Rima Reddy

Commerce Ventures

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Robert Templeton

IDEA Fund Partners

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Ally McCloskey

Clocktower Technology Ventures

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Alex Rohrbach

Thomvest Ventures

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Jo Zhu

Anthropic

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Naomi Chetrit Band

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