Fellows - Pear VC

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.

About Pear Fellows

Each year, Pear offers a select group of undergraduate, MBA, and PhD students the opportunity to work closely with our team. Our Fellows program is an immersive apprenticeship designed to supercharge your readiness for a career in venture capital or entrepreneurship.

40+

Are VCs across A16Z, Pear, Lightspeed, Insight, Sequoia, Khosla, Flagship, DST, DFJ, and more

25+

Are founders of VC-backed startups

30+

Work in product at high-growth startups

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.

Pear Fellows receive

Unprecedented access to deal flow

Immersive training through group and 1:1 mentorship from our team

Ongoing educational curriculum via virtual sessions

Ownership of Pear events and programming on campus

Direction to conduct company due diligence and form sector theses

“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

“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

“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

“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

Select Pear Fellows Alumni

Nicole Quinn

Founder @ Connect Ventures and Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Ibrahim AlSuwaidi

DCM Ventures

Sam Rosen

GIC

Sam Shapiro

DFJ

Ian Taylor

Sequoia

Anoushka Vaswani

Partner Lightspeed Ventures

Jennifer Ngai

DST Global

Galym Imanbayev

Lightspeed

Hesam Motlagh

Stealth Startup

Justine Huang

Industry Ventures

Julia Klein

March CP

Patrick Lungden

Flagship Pioneering

Kumar Gautam

Sands Capital

Joanna Lichter

Emerson Collective

Chris Gaertner

OpenView

James Rathmell

Haun Ventures