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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. As a result, over 70% of our seeded companies raise a Series A, when the industry average is only 42%.

How we help

Build the ultimate pitch deck

At pre-seed, storytelling is extremely important. We help you showcase that you know your customer, know your market, that you’re the right team, that you can get things done, and that you know the risks and can face them head on. 

 

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. 

 

Make introductions

We’ll leverage our network to gain as much interest for you as possible. 

 

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 $13.2M Series A

(INDUSTRY AVERAGE: $10.9M)

70% of Pear seeded companies successfully raise Series A

(INDUSTRY AVG IS 42%)

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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Arpan Shah

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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Jo Zhu

Anthropic

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Pepe Agell

Partner

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Sean Strong

Head of Builders

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Andrews Gomez

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. It’s been a pleasure working with the Pear team the last couple of years and we’re very excited to continue working together for many more!

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

xilis founders

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

How we invest

How we invest