
Fundraising
We help our founders run a smooth fundraising process. We partner with you to position your company for success and we leverage our network to gain as much interest as possible.
How we help
Refine your pitch skills
We provide public speaking workshops, 1:1 training, and a lot of feedback to help you put your best foot forward.
Determine investors to target
We’ll consult with you on a 1:1 basis about what investors you should target in the fundraising process. We take a number of factors into account like specialty areas, what investors might make a strong addition to your board, and more.
Prepare you for investor meetings
Prior to any investor meeting, we’ll help you nail your deck and get as prepared as possible so you walk into the room feeling confident.
Track progress
After each and every investor meeting, we’ll do a post mortem to understand what went right, wrong, and iterate so that your pitch gets better and better as you go through the process.
On average Pear companies raise a $16.9M Series A
(Industry Average: $10.9M)
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Pear companies have gone public
(DoorDash, Guardant Health, Senti Bio, BioAge)
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Companies are valued at $1B+
(Aurora Solar, Branch, DoorDash, Guardant Health, Vanta, Viz.ai, Gusto, Cognition)
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Pear has been an amazing partner and has added tons of value to Melonn. They’re always approachable and ready to bounce off ideas and provide thoughtful, honest feedback. And they’ve been instrumental in fundraising, helping us plan and execute processes, making key intros with investors, etc.
Andrés Gomez
Founder and CEO of Melonn
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Eddie and Mar have been a wealth of knowledge in terms of the biotech space and have helped us get our narrative down and communicate our value to investors. Pear has introduced us to every investor we’ve worked with.
Hannah Wastyk
Co-founder and CEO of Interface Biosciences
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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
Pear team in your corner
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Mar Hershenson
Founding Managing Partner
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Pejman Nozad
Founding Managing Partner
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Ajay Kamat
Partner
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Arash Afrakhteh
Partner
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Aparna Sinha
Visiting Partner
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Vivien Ho
Partner
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Keith Bender
Partner
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Eddie Eltoukhy
Partner
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Pepe Agell
Partner
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Ankur Jain
Investor
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Kathleen Estreich
Partner
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Khalil Fuller
Partner & Head of Dorm
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Shravan Reddy
Partner
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Warren Shaeffer
Partner