Investor profile for Pear VC: stage-based planning range, investment stages, sector focus, portfolio companies, sources, and verification status. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker directory.

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Pear VC stages, portfolio and investment profile

Menlo Park pre-seed and seed firm partnering with founders via direct seed rounds and the PearX accelerator — enterprise, health, consumer, and deep tech.

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Stage-based planning range

$250K–$3M

This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.

Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.

No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.

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Investment stages

Leads: Pre-Seed, Seed

Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed

Sector focus

Enterprise SaaS · AI & Machine Learning · Deep Tech

Geography

Menlo Park, CA

Founded 2013

Fund size / AUM

Not recorded

A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.

Portfolio in our directory

14

Linked startup profiles

Latest fund vehicle

Not recorded

Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.

Recent tracked investment

Kin Health

Seed · $9M · May 2026

Rounds they lead

Pre-Seed Seed

Rounds they invest

Pre-Seed Seed

Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.

Portfolio companies we track

Startups in our directory that list Pear VC as an investor (14 total).

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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.

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