Pear VC
Menlo Park pre-seed and seed firm partnering with founders via direct seed rounds and the PearX accelerator — enterprise, health, consumer, and deep tech.
Typical check size
$250K-$3M (stage-based estimate)
Founded
2013
Headquarters
Menlo Park, CA
AUM
N/A
Rounds they lead
Pre-Seed
Seed
Rounds they invest
Pre-Seed
Seed
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Pear VC as an investor (14 total).
- Alpine Bio Biomanufacturing platform producing animal-free dairy proteins via engineered plants.
- Branch Mobile deep-linking and attribution infrastructure (Branch.io).
- Counsel Health Physician-supervised async AI medical advice via messaging for employers and health plans.
- Doxel Computer-vision construction progress tracking — robots and drones vs. BIM plans.
- GC Therapeutics Cell-therapy biotech using George Church–originated iPSC programming platform TFome.
- Ideogram Text-to-image model company known for strong typography in generated images.
- Inventa Brazilian B2B marketplace connecting brands with SMB retailers — inventory plus trade credit.
- Irreverent Labs AI video generation startup building short-form video foundation models.
- Kin Health Free patient-facing AI app that records visits and turns doctor conversations into actionable summaries.
- Pahdo Labs Anime RPG studio (Halcyon Zero) building vertical UGC platform for anime-style game mods.
- Run the World Virtual events platform with cocktail-party networking, acquired by EventMobi in 2023.
- Stelo Labs, Inc. Web3 wallet security: transaction simulation and malicious approval blocking.
- The Coterie Wealth and private-markets platform for founders — alternative investments, estate planning, and lending for asset-rich operators.
- Valar Labs Computational pathology AI predicting cancer therapy response from H&E slides.
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FAQs about Pear VC
Stage fit, check size, thesis, and how founders typically approach this firm — based on public sources and our directory.
Pear leads pre-seed and seed exclusively in our directory — no formal Series A program outside follow-ons. Paths include PearX (12-week accelerator) and direct seed investments for companies approaching product-market fit.
Pear publishes ranges on pear.vc: $250K–$2M via PearX for pre-seed and $1M–$6M for direct seed rounds, with follow-ons up to ~$10M for select portfolio companies. PearX S26 applications opened March 2026.
Pear is headquartered in Menlo Park with a San Francisco office. PearX requires Bay Area relocation for the 12-week cohort, though the firm has backed companies nationally — founders should expect in-person intensity during the program.
Our directory tags enterprise-saas, ai-ml, and deep-tech. Pear is sector-flexible at pre-seed/seed with notable historical wins in marketplaces and health (DoorDash, Gusto, Guardant Health) and current bets in AI and infrastructure.
Pear leads pre-seed and seed rounds — PearX invests $250K–$2M as the lead check, and the seed program targets $1M–$6M leads. The firm reports portfolio companies raising above-average Series A sizes versus industry norms.
Linked startups include Ideogram (/startup/ideogram), Branch (/startup/branch), Doxel (/startup/doxel), Inventa (/startup/inventa), Alpine Bio (/startup/alpine-bio), Pahdo Labs (/startup/pahdo-labs), and Irreverent Labs (/startup/irreverent-labs).
Apply for PearX at pear.vc/pearx-application or reach out for direct seed via pear.vc. Warm intros from Pear portfolio founders (200+ seeded companies) help, but Pear actively reviews open applications — early applications for S26 had a February 2026 priority deadline.
Pear VC is listed as a co-investor in our Sarah Smith Fund piece (/nyc-vc-fund-news-2025-07-11-sarah-smith-fund-16m-fund-i). PearX S26 applications were announced on pear.vc in March 2026.