Pear VC

Pear is an early-stage venture fund founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. Their co-founding managers have historically seeded very early stage tech start-ups such as Doordash, Guardant Health, Gusto, Viz.ai, Dropbox, Lending Club, Vanta, Zoosk, Addepar, Path and many others. Their motto is simple: they invest in exceptional founders who are building amazing companies. They utilize every resource they have to assist their founders and entrepreneurs shape the future.

Arash Afrakhteh

Partner

Keith Bender

Partner

Eddie Eltoukhy

Partner

Vivien Ho

Partner

Udit Jain

Associate

Danielle Jing

Chief of Staff

Ajay Kamat

Partner

Jessica Mulvihill

Fellow

Past deals in Sales Automation

Vanta

Series B in 2022
Vanta is a trust management platform that simplifies security and compliance processes for organizations. It automates evidence collection for various compliance frameworks and offers continuous control monitoring to manage risk effectively. The platform supports sales teams by providing real-time insights that enhance trust and streamline security reviews.

Sudozi

Seed Round in 2022
Sudozi is a real-time platform that track, collaborate, budget, and approve budget management and vendor management workflow. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Cooby

Seed Round in 2022
Cooby is Sales Tech SaaS that helps the sales team connect and build rapport with customers by syncing WhatsApp with CRM.

Smarty

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Smarty Smarty develops an application designed to automate and manage all the tasks. The application is an automation tool that focuses on business tasks like scheduling meetings, making introductions, and finding flights for out of town meetings.

Affinity

Series C in 2021
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM. Affinity instantly surfaces all of your team's data and shows you who is best suited to make the crucial introductions you need to close your next big deal. Using AI and natural language processing, Affinity helps your team curate and grow its network by unlocking introductions to decision makers and auto-populating your pipeline to increase deal flow. -- Leverage your network: Map out your team's relationship graph to most effectively source the next big deal -- VCs, level up your portfolio: Ally with your portfolio companies and discover how you can introduce them to key prospects and help them raise their next round -- Startups, get the intro: Map out your team's relationship graph. Discover the entire rolodex of prospects your investors and advisors are connected to and unearth valuable introductions -- Reduce complexity: Get rid of spreadsheets for contact management and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works -- Effectively manage pipeline: Keep track of meetings, manage follow-ups, and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works It's time to adopt a CRM that makes your job easier and maximizes your team and investor's most valuable asset - their networks. Affinity has raised $13.5MM led by 8VC (Joe Lonsdale: Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov), Sway Ventures, Pear Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital & Western Technology Investment.

OnRamp

Seed Round in 2021
OnRamp is a leading customer onboarding platform dedicated to helping B2B companies accelerate revenue growth. By automating and streamlining the post-sales process, OnRamp ensures that new customers can easily navigate the most complex onboarding process, enhancing their overall experience and satisfaction. Trusted by industry leaders, including three of the Fortune 15, OnRamp empowers businesses to optimize their onboarding strategies and drive success from day one. To find out more, visit www.onramp.us.

Vanta

Series A in 2021
Vanta is a trust management platform that simplifies security and compliance processes for organizations. It automates evidence collection for various compliance frameworks and offers continuous control monitoring to manage risk effectively. The platform supports sales teams by providing real-time insights that enhance trust and streamline security reviews.

Cooby

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cooby is Sales Tech SaaS that helps the sales team connect and build rapport with customers by syncing WhatsApp with CRM.

Affinity

Series B in 2019
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM. Affinity instantly surfaces all of your team's data and shows you who is best suited to make the crucial introductions you need to close your next big deal. Using AI and natural language processing, Affinity helps your team curate and grow its network by unlocking introductions to decision makers and auto-populating your pipeline to increase deal flow. -- Leverage your network: Map out your team's relationship graph to most effectively source the next big deal -- VCs, level up your portfolio: Ally with your portfolio companies and discover how you can introduce them to key prospects and help them raise their next round -- Startups, get the intro: Map out your team's relationship graph. Discover the entire rolodex of prospects your investors and advisors are connected to and unearth valuable introductions -- Reduce complexity: Get rid of spreadsheets for contact management and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works -- Effectively manage pipeline: Keep track of meetings, manage follow-ups, and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works It's time to adopt a CRM that makes your job easier and maximizes your team and investor's most valuable asset - their networks. Affinity has raised $13.5MM led by 8VC (Joe Lonsdale: Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov), Sway Ventures, Pear Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital & Western Technology Investment.

Vanta

Seed Round in 2018
Vanta is a trust management platform that simplifies security and compliance processes for organizations. It automates evidence collection for various compliance frameworks and offers continuous control monitoring to manage risk effectively. The platform supports sales teams by providing real-time insights that enhance trust and streamline security reviews.

Solvvy

Series A in 2017
Solvvy is a machine learning startup reinventing the customer experience. Its first product, Solvvy for Support, delivers a better self-service platform that improves customer satisfaction and decreases costs for businesses. This intelligent NLP solution is the first customer support SaaS application based on Solvvy’s powerful answer graph technology. Solvvy deploys in days and delivers immediate financial returns for business. Solvvy is already trusted by leading brands including UpWork, TaskRabbit, Rover.com, DoubleDutch, Automattic and others. The company was founded by esteemed technologists Mehdi Samadi and Justin Betteridge and serial entrepreneur/CEO, Mahesh Ram. Solvvy is fortunate to be backed by leading Silicon Valley investors

Boxbot

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Boxbot’s proprietary software and hardware platform transforms package handling by making ordinary conveyors three-dimensional. Headquartered in Alameda, CA, Boxbot’s modular solution can store, sort, and sequence size-agnostic, high throughput payloads while requiring a minimal physical footprint. Boxbot is driving down the costs of last mile delivery by enabling faster, more intelligent, and denser routing of packages at the warehouse.

Affinity

Series A in 2017
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM. Affinity instantly surfaces all of your team's data and shows you who is best suited to make the crucial introductions you need to close your next big deal. Using AI and natural language processing, Affinity helps your team curate and grow its network by unlocking introductions to decision makers and auto-populating your pipeline to increase deal flow. -- Leverage your network: Map out your team's relationship graph to most effectively source the next big deal -- VCs, level up your portfolio: Ally with your portfolio companies and discover how you can introduce them to key prospects and help them raise their next round -- Startups, get the intro: Map out your team's relationship graph. Discover the entire rolodex of prospects your investors and advisors are connected to and unearth valuable introductions -- Reduce complexity: Get rid of spreadsheets for contact management and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works -- Effectively manage pipeline: Keep track of meetings, manage follow-ups, and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works It's time to adopt a CRM that makes your job easier and maximizes your team and investor's most valuable asset - their networks. Affinity has raised $13.5MM led by 8VC (Joe Lonsdale: Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov), Sway Ventures, Pear Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital & Western Technology Investment.

Intellimize

Seed Round in 2017
Intellimize automatically optimizes websites to drive revenue and customer acquisition using machine learning. It helps marketers drive conversions and revenue growth by personalizing websites to deliver the right experience to each visitor on any device. They automate this using machine learning. Leading companies rely on Intellimize to deliver more revenue, faster, and with less work than traditional A/B testing or rules-based personalization. The company also personalizes mobile and desktop websites for each unique visitor in real-time. Intellimize was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Solvvy

Seed Round in 2016
Solvvy is a machine learning startup reinventing the customer experience. Its first product, Solvvy for Support, delivers a better self-service platform that improves customer satisfaction and decreases costs for businesses. This intelligent NLP solution is the first customer support SaaS application based on Solvvy’s powerful answer graph technology. Solvvy deploys in days and delivers immediate financial returns for business. Solvvy is already trusted by leading brands including UpWork, TaskRabbit, Rover.com, DoubleDutch, Automattic and others. The company was founded by esteemed technologists Mehdi Samadi and Justin Betteridge and serial entrepreneur/CEO, Mahesh Ram. Solvvy is fortunate to be backed by leading Silicon Valley investors

Affinity

Series A in 2015
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform built to expand and evolve the traditional CRM. Affinity instantly surfaces all of your team's data and shows you who is best suited to make the crucial introductions you need to close your next big deal. Using AI and natural language processing, Affinity helps your team curate and grow its network by unlocking introductions to decision makers and auto-populating your pipeline to increase deal flow. -- Leverage your network: Map out your team's relationship graph to most effectively source the next big deal -- VCs, level up your portfolio: Ally with your portfolio companies and discover how you can introduce them to key prospects and help them raise their next round -- Startups, get the intro: Map out your team's relationship graph. Discover the entire rolodex of prospects your investors and advisors are connected to and unearth valuable introductions -- Reduce complexity: Get rid of spreadsheets for contact management and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works -- Effectively manage pipeline: Keep track of meetings, manage follow-ups, and receive instant updates related to your pipeline as your team works It's time to adopt a CRM that makes your job easier and maximizes your team and investor's most valuable asset - their networks. Affinity has raised $13.5MM led by 8VC (Joe Lonsdale: Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov), Sway Ventures, Pear Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital & Western Technology Investment.

Paid

Seed Round in 2015
Paid is your company’s invoicing on autopilot. Paid replaces the need for businesses to dedicate engineering resources or hire employees to build their own accounts receivable management. Paid’s API translates your customer data into beautiful, custom-branded invoices and manages the payment entire process from reminders to reconciliation. Paid’s integration gives you the power to easily accept payment via credit card, PayPal, ACH and wire transfers directly through invoices. They even collect and deposit your checks. Simply put, Paid is the easiest way to get paid. Paid makes magic of the entire process, all while bringing full cash flow transparency. Get started today for free at paidapi.com.

Switchmate

Seed Round in 2014
Switchmate build products with the aim to eliminate the pain of installation from home automation. Its first product snaps on to the existing light switch, requiring no installation or rewiring. Once in place, users can use it to control lights, fans, and other appliances from their smartphone.
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