hosting

NOTE: We hit our capacity constraint!  Registration does not guarantee a spot for the event. Invites + exact location will be sent out with your registration 

Thank you!​ If you have not been approved, we are at capacity and will not be able to accept you this time. We hope to host at a bigger eventspace next time!

Join us for happy hour with web3 builders and founders, and get to know Pear and Developer DAO!

 exists to accelerate the education and impact of a new wave of web3 builders. Developer DAO has over 7500 Developers Globally. As of now, membership will be granted to those with the NFT, 

 is a pre-seed and seed fund led by former founders with a dedicated web3 team focused on supporting web3 builders. Pear’s portfolio is now worth $100B and our web3 portfolio currently includes 12+ investments in web3 companies building technologies across foundational decentralized infrastructure, NFTs, DAOs, DeFi and Gaming. We are proud to partner with trailblazers such as 

Pear VC 🍐 x Developer DAO (🧱, 🚀) Happy Hour [EVENT FULL]

Join NYC's crypto builders on a Friday night with Pear VC and Elizabeth Stark, CEO and Founder of Lightning Labs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

We will have plant-based catering for the event. 

Exact location will be sent after RSVP is approved.

Fireside with Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs

Shaneez Sustainability

Calling all climate-tech founders (and aspiring founders!),

, the world's #1 solar design software company valued at over $4B.

We will be talking about his journey to climate entrepreneurship, finding product-market fit, and scaling Aurora Solar to the multi-billion dollar company it is today.

5.30pm: Opening remarks, followed by the fireside chat

6.15pm onwards: Meet others in the community over drinks and light bites

We're a premier pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category defining companies. We've invested in top-tier companies including Aurora Solar, Repurpose Global, Doordash, Senti Bio, Guardant Health, Gusto, Branch, and so many more. We're company builders: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges. Learn more about us at: 

NOTE: Registration does not guarantee a spot for the event. Invites + exact location will be sent out with your registration 

Pear VC: Fireside Chat with Aurora Solar

​We invite female and non-binary founders to join Pear VC Founding Managing Partner, Mar Hershenson, for an AMA breakfast in Santa Monica.  We are keeping this event tight so that attendees can ask Mar anything about the ins and outs of becoming a successful entrepreneur. Mar is a Stanford PhD, 3x founder, founding member of Equity Summit and All Raise, Founding Partner of Pear VC, and on the Forbes Midas List (#30). 

​Location and other details will be sent along with email confirmation.

​We're a premier pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category defining companies. We've invested in top-tier companies including, Doordash, Senti Bio, Guardant Health, Gusto, Branch, Aurora Solar, and so many more. We're company builders: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges. Learn more about us at: 

 - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to celebrate the growing LA ecosystem.

We're proud to partner with organizations that share our passion for helping early stage founders succeed. Here's a bit about them in their own words:

 - SVB is fundamentally different than other banks. While we offer modern banking products designed for tech, life science and healthcare founders, that’s just the start. Our team of 75+ startup banking experts can help you maneuver the fundraising maze, connect with investors, and provide candid advice on how to increase the probability of your success. Founder-focused. Digitally forward. Human-to-human. We’re the bank of you.

​NOTE: Registration does not guarantee a spot for the event. Invites + exact location will be sent out with your registration 

#LATechWeek: Female Founder AMA Breakfast with Pear VC's Mar Hershenson

Friday, August 19th 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

Join us for brunch in Santa Monica for great food and a conversation between 

Pear's Founding Managing Partner Pejman Nozad (#15 on the Forbes Midas List) and Stanley Tang, CPO and Co-Founder of Doordash. 

They'll discuss how to grow a tech company from seed stage to IPO. We welcome any founders who would like to learn the ins and outs of growing a business from the ground up.

Arrive early as elevators take some time to transport folks to the roof!

Location and other details will be sent along with email confirmation.

Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category defining companies. We've invested in top-tier companies including Doordash, Gusto, Branch, Guardant Health, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Affinity and so many more. We're company builders, having founded 10 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges. Learn more about us at: 

We're proud to be supported by these organizations that share a passion for helping early-stage founders succeed:

 - They're more than a bank; they're an advocate for every client's vision. They invest in people and grow more than just money. PacWest partners with leaders to help them identify the right products and services for their business needs. 

 - Legal advisers to disrupters – particularly in the technology, life sciences, and high-growth industries – they see firsthand the power of innovation and invest significant time and resources in implementing and developing the tools, systems, and infrastructure necessary to dramatically transform the client experience. Pear has worked with Cooley since our inception.

#LATechWeek: Pear VC Brunch with DoorDash Founder

We invite female and non-binary founders to join Pear VC Founding Managing Partner, Mar Hershenson, for an AMA lunch in NYC. We are keeping this event tight so that attendees can ask Mar anything about the ins and outs of becoming a successful entrepreneur. Mar is a Stanford PhD, 3x founder, founding member of Equity Summit and All Raise, Founding Partner of Pear VC, and on the Forbes Midas List (#30).

​​The brunch will be in Midtown Manhattan. Specific details will be sent along with email confirmation.

​​We're a premier pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category defining companies. We've invested in top-tier companies including, Doordash, Senti Bio, Guardant Health, Gusto, Branch, Aurora Solar, and so many more. We're company builders: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges. Learn more about us at: 

​NOTE: We have limited spots for lunch. Registration does not guarantee a spot for the event. Invites + exact location will be sent out with your registration 

NYC Female Founder AMA Lunch with Pear VC's Mar Hershenson

NOTE: This happy hour is full and we are overcapacity. Thank you so much - we will accept more from our waitlist if space opens up.

You're invited to Building Block's celebration of web3 founders, operators and investors in the SF ecosystem along with our partners 

We're celebrating the 2022 accomplishments of our core team and key contributors of our community that has grown to over 1800+ members strong and organized 25+ community events!

The event will be sponsored by Building Block, 

Registration does not guarantee a spot for the event. Space is limited. Invites will be sent out with your registration 

[FULL] Web3 Builders Happy Hour

Pear VC is pleased to be hosting a Fall speakers series in our Menlo Park office. We have invited prominent tech leaders to join us for conversations on effective leadership, entrepreneurship, and lessons learned throughout their careers. On October 19th, we'll host a conversation between 

's Co-Founder Mada Seghete and Pear Principal Vivien Ho.  

Snacks and refreshments will be provided! Space is limited so please RSVP.

 is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. We've invested in top-tier companies including Doordash, Gusto, Branch, Guardant Health, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Affinity and so many more. We're company builders, having founded 10 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.

​​We're proud to be supported by PacWest, which shares a passion for helping early-stage founders succeed:

 - They're more than a bank; they're an advocate for every client's vision. They invest in people and grow more than just money. PacWest partners with leaders to help them identify the right products and services for their business needs.

Pear VC Speakers Series: Branch Co-Founder Mada Seghete

 (Partner at Pear VC, sold Charlie Finance to Chime) as he shares his advice on why it's a great time to build in a bear market, follow by Q&A session.  The event will be held on Zoom - please RSVP!

Ilian is a Visiting Partner at Pear, where he helps our founders find product-market-fit faster, recruit, and fundraise.

Before Pear, Ilian co-founded Charlie Finance Co, a personal finance company that helps Americans get out of debt faster and worry less about money, which exited to Chime in 2021. Prior to Chime, Ilian worked in mobile gaming, as Product Manager at Pocket Gems and Head of Product at Chocolabs.

Ilian holds an MBA from Stanford University and degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Vassar College and the London School of Economics.

 is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. We've proud to have backed top-tier teams across industries and verticals, such as those at DoorDash, Gusto, Branch, Aurora Solar, Affinity and Vanta. We're company builders, having founded 10 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.

Penn x Pear: Time to Build in Bear Market with Ilian Georgiev 

 info session for the Pear Startup Competition. 

The Pear Competition allows for founders and aspiring entrepreneurs to 

When: Wednesday, February 22nd from 12-1PM ET @ SHDH 1203

Penn Pear Fellows will present an overview of the competition, and answer any questions about the competition or Pear VC!

Pear Competition deadline is on March 19th.

We’re seeking dedicated founders with big ambitions.  No idea is too early to be considered, don't miss the opportunity. 

The Pear team has previously built 10 companies and Pear has partnered early with startups now worth over $50 Billion, including Doordash, Guardant Health, Affinity, Branch Metrics, Aurora Solar, and Gusto.

Pear VC $25-100K Penn Competition Info Session (Free Shake Shack!)

​We are overcapacity - thank you so much! First come first serve seating!

Raising capital for climatetech is different than the standard venture backed route. We’re bringing together all parts of the capital stack — and giving you a chance to pitch your startup.

We are excited to host a panel of experts representing all diversity of climate tech capital including founders like 

. We’ll start with a panel moderated by 

After the panel, select founders will have the opportunity to describe what they’re working on and panelists will each advise how their piece of the capital stack plays a role.

We will also have delicious snacks and refreshments while the attendees mingle after breakout.

 helps climate tech companies write 10x faster grants, permits, RPFs, EIRs, and more. They are officially launching on Earth Day but already working with leading climate tech companies like Perennial, Noya, Project Vesta, and Windborne. 

 is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. Pear has been investing in sustainability and climate tech since its inception: Aurora, Nobell Foods, Pearlstreet, Conduit, Repurpose Global, Windborne, Streamline, Farmraise, Lasso, Hertha and more. We're company builders, having founded 12 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.

 is taking a science-based, holistic approach to carbon removal: working with farmers and landowners to implement regenerative agriculture practices that not only remove carbon from the atmosphere, but also improve soil health, enhance biodiversity, and support rural communities. Our technology brings accuracy, transparency, and scalability to soil carbon measurement.

 works with utilities, automakers, EVSEs, and EV owners to enable and accelerate the electrification of transportation. 

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

 is decarbonizing the backbone to modern industry - steel. Steel is an irreplaceable metal in building our infrastructure, our automobiles, our appliances, and more. Yet it is responsible for more than 8% of global CO2 emissions. Hertha Metals is developing technology to produce iron and steel with 95% less CO2 emissions than the conventional approach, without added cost. Their solution is scalable and can integrate into existing infrastructure to rapidly revolutionize the steel industry in time for the world's 2050 net-zero targets. 

 provides banking services built for Startups.

By registering for this event, you agree to share your information with the organizers of SF Climate Week in order to receive communications about the event.

Pear VC x Streamline presents: Grants, RFPs, Venture, Debt - What's Right for My Climate Company?

​Note: We're at full capacity (100 people) for our venue  - thank you! 

Vivien, Pear Healthcare Partner will lead an in person- panel discussion with 

, AI researcher on Google's Med-PaLM2 and 

, and then have an evening of mingling and small bites! Note: we won't have zoom for the session so please come if you can!

Vivek is a Research Scientist at Google Health AI advancing biomedical AI to help scale world class healthcare to everyone. Vivek is particularly interested in building large language models and multimodal foundation models for biomedical applications and leads the Google Brain moonshot behind Med-PaLM, Google's flagship medical large language model. Med-PaLM has been featured in The Scientific American, The Economist, STAT News, CNBC, Forbes, New Scientist among others. Vivek graduated his masters from UT Austin in Computer Science and Bachelors at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.

Viswesh is the CTO and Founder of Valar Labs. Valar Labs is building clinical grade deep learning to analyze each patient's characteristics and provide clarity to oncologists during decision making. Their AI is built with oncologists at the center and provides interpretable and actionable insights.  Prior to founding Valar Labs, Viswesh was a Research Assistant in Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) leveraging cutting edge artificial intelligence to solve healthcare problems. He was also the founder of Kanna, a patented and clinically-validated method to detect Amblyopia in children in India. Viswesh graduated his bachelors in Computer Science at Stanford. 

 is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. We've invested in top-tier companies including Doordash, 

, Valar Labs, Recora, ixLayer, Gusto, Branch, Guardant Health, Bioage, Vanta, SentiBio and so many more. We're company builders, having founded 10 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.

If you want to hear more conversations on healthcare innovation and founders in healthcare, subscribe to the 

Pear VC: Healthcare x AI Panel with Google's Med-PaLM2's Vivek Natarajan and Valar Labs Founder, Viswesh Krishna

Get ready to dive into the future of healthcare! We're thrilled to have you join us right in the heart of San Francisco.

Come ready to mingle, learn, and meet healthcare folks in AI! We can't wait to see you there!

We have limited spots so if you're approved the location will be sent out. 

We reached max capacity - we're only hosting a small gathering this time so unfortunately cannot accept everyone.

Obvious is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage, purpose-driven entrepreneurs reimagining trillion-dollar industries. Obvious has over $1 billion AUM. Select investments include Virta, Devoted Health, GenHealth and Galileo in healthcare; Zymergen, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, and LabGenius in computational biology; Proterra, Lilium, and Amply in electrified transportation; Hedvig, One Finance, Corvus, and Openly in fintech; and Incredible Health and Gusto, platforms helping people thrive at work.

 a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. We've invested in top-tier companies including Doordash, 

, Valar Labs, Recora, ixLayer, Gusto, Branch, Guardant Health, Bioage, Vanta, SentiBio and so many more. We're company builders, having founded 10 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges. Keep up with Pear at 

GenHealth is a startup building the next generation of AI-powered healthcare solutions using generative AI. Our approach trains a transformer model on millions of patients’ encoded claims and clinical data to predict their futures. GenHealth’s model can be used as a digital twin or co-pilot supporting a broad set of use cases. Among them, health insurance plans can use GenHealth to better understand quality and risk, providers can find the next best action, pharma can simulate clinical trials, and life insurance can have more personalized actuarial analysis. 

Obvious Ventures, Pear VC, GenHealth presents: Generative AI in Healthcare

, Partner at Pear VC and meet other amazing women in AI builders! 

Spots are very limited. If you are not accepted, then you are on the waitlist.

Once accepted, location will be shared in San Francisco.

 is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. Pear has backed iconic companies such as Doordash, Guardant, Gusto, Branch, Vanta, Aurora Solar, Nobell Foods and more at the earliest stages. We're company builders, having founded 12 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.

 has been an essential partner to scaling startups. From benefits, wellbeing, and compensation, to HR administration and workforce analytics, we provide meaningful impact on your people, including incredible businesses built by women, that need to get their total people investment right.

Women in AI Builders with Sara Hooker, Head of AI at Cohere

Join Pear VC for a Climate Tech founders & funders panel and mixer pre-NY Climate Week

We'll have vegan bites and refreshments and lots of time for mixing! We look forward to seeing you there! 

 helps climate startups accelerate discovery, drafting, and management of grants, RFPs, accelerator applications by using the power of AI and language models to navigate policy on your behalf. They are still in private beta, but already working with leading climate tech companies like Perennial, Noya, Project Vesta, and Windborne.​​​​

 is the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform, bringing together brands, consumers, innovators, and policymakers to collectively combat the plastic waste crisis. Through its pioneering solutions across the circular economy value chain, rePurpose has helped more than 300 companies measure, reduce, and take action on their plastic footprints, while driving systems change on a global scale.

rePurpose Impact Projects have recovered over 15 million kilograms of plastic waste from the environment to date, protecting vulnerable coastal regions across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. In doing so, the organization has enabled the delivery of waste management services to millions of people for the first time, while positively impacting the lives of thousands of marginalized waste workers across the world.

Founded in 2016, rePurpose Global now employs over 70 full-time team members across offices in the US, London, Bangalore, and Mumbai. For more information, please visit 

Climate Tech Founders & Funders Panel & Mixer

Calling all founders! Meet Midas List investors behind some of the most iconic tech companies and pitch your startup for a chance to win $25k. We will also be hosting a networking event afterwards with our famous Pear VC gelato truck! Please complete the application 

 and we will follow up with you individually. Applications close at the end of the day on 10/22. 

Meet the investors and some of their most high caliber investments:

 is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category defining companies. Pear has backed iconic companies such as DoorDash, Guardant, Gusto, Branch, Vanta, Aurora Solar, Nobell Foods and more at the earliest stages. We're company builders, having founded 12 companies: we help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.