Pear Garage

Pear Garage is our program for engineering students across the Bay Area. We provide members access to our Pear Studio ecosystem, including workshops, dinners, tech credits, talks with luminaries, office hours with our team, and a community of world-class peers.

OUR NEXT COHORT KICKS OFF FALL 2024.


2022 Pear Harvard Garage Cohort

Who are we looking for?

  • Stanford and Berkeley engineering students across undergraduate and graduate programs
  • Builders and founders excited about working on their company or project
  • Past experience building real-world projects and an eagerness to learn

What we provide

Capital, community, and learnings:

Pear Studio membership

Join our founder ecosystem working out of our San Francisco space for 12 months. More here.

Work from Pear Studio

Work out of our San Francisco or Menlo Park Pear Studio spaces for 12 months.

Workshops & talks

Attend talks with industry leaders and learn from skill-building workshops on topics including automations, analytics, and design

Cloud credits

Access over $100k of curated resources (including cloud credits)

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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

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The difference with Pear is that even after several rounds of funding, they continue to work with us and add value.

King Alandy Dy CEO and Co-Founder

Pear Garage alumni

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Ray Zhou

CEO and Co-Founder of Affinity

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Shubham Goel

Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Affinity

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Katherine Liu

CEO and Co-Founder of FormFunction, Pear Founder

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Isaac Madan

Co-Founder of Nightfall AI

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Arpan Shah

Visiting Partner at Pear VC

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Niveditha S. Iyer

Stanford

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Hongxia Zhong

Director of Engineering at Flex

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Vivek Nair

Co-Founder/CTO of Pesto

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Ryan Rice

Ryan Rice

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Neetish Sharma

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Learn from the Pear team

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Mar Hershenson

Founding Managing Partner

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Danielle Jing

Investor

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Ana Leyva

Go-to-market

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Ajay Kamat

Partner

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Arash Afrakhteh

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Arpan Shah

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Eddie Eltoukhy

Partner

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Vivien Ho

Vivien Ho

Partner

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