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Pear VC
Menlo Park, United States
Pear VC is an early‑stage venture firm that builds and backs founders at the pre‑seed and seed stages. It focuses on AI, SaaS, enterprise software, healthcare, fintech, biotech, deep‑tech, and climate tech, seeking trans...
Portfolio
39+
Employees
100+
Founded
2013
AUM
≈ $800.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Artificial IntelligenceBiotechnologyClean TechnologyConsumer Goods
Geographic scope
Global
Fund details
Funds
Fund I
Vintage 2013 • $50.0M
Fund IV
Vintage 2023 • $432.0M
Check sizes
Min: $250.0K
Typical: $2.5M
Max: $10.0M
Sources
Pear VC
Pear VC is an early‑stage venture firm that builds and backs founders at the pre‑seed and seed stages. It focuses on AI, SaaS, enterprise software, healthcare, fintech, biotech, deep‑tech, and climate tech, seeking transformational ideas in large markets. Leveraging its founder‑operator team, Pear provides capital, product, recruiting, and go‑to‑market support to help startups scale.
Portfolio
39+
Employees
100+
Founded
2013
AUM
≈ $800.0M
Funds
Fund I · Vintage 2013 • $50.0M
Fund IV · Vintage 2023 • $432.0M
Check Sizes
Min: $250.0K
Typical: $2.5M
Max: $10.0M
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Artificial IntelligenceBiotechnologyClean TechnologyConsumer GoodsCybersecurity
Geographic scope
Global
Sources
Showing 24 of 37 matched portfolio companies
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform that utilizes automation, data enrichment, and artificial intelligence to help private capital investors efficiently find, manage, and close deals. By centralizing relationship data and providing actionable insights, Affinity eliminates the need for manual data entry and enhances collaboration across teams.
Funding: $80.0M
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Funding: $80.0M
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Aurora is a blockchain ecosystem that combines Ethereum compatibility with NEAR Protocol's scalability, enabling fast transaction finality of approximately two seconds at a low cost of around $0.02 per transaction. It provides Web2 businesses with a streamlined path to Web3, facilitating affordable and efficient blockchain integration.
Funding: $12.0M
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Funding: $12.0M
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Axle provides scheduling and workforce management software specifically designed for home health care providers, utilizing AI-driven logistics algorithms for route optimization and automated scheduling. The platform enhances clinician productivity by 19% and reduces patient no-show rates by 55%, addressing inefficiencies in home health operations.
Funding: $4.4M
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Funding: $4.4M
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Betterworks provides a performance management platform that integrates goal-setting, feedback, and analytics to enhance employee engagement and manager effectiveness. The solution enables organizations to align daily activities with business strategy, facilitating data-driven talent decisions and continuous performance enablement.
Funding: $161.5M
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Funding: $161.5M
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BioAge is a clinical-stage biotechnology company utilizing a proprietary multi-omics platform that analyzes 65 million molecular measurements from 45 years of human aging to identify novel therapeutic targets for metabolic diseases. Its lead program, azelaprag, is an oral APJ agonist entering Phase 2 trials, designed to enhance weight loss and body composition in older adults undergoing obesity treatment with incretin drugs.
Brico operates a licensing platform that automates the application and maintenance of financial licenses across all U.S. states, significantly reducing costs by 50-90% and time spent on licensing tasks to just 10-15% of team resources. The platform provides real-time regulatory data and automated reporting, ensuring compliance and streamlining the often complex licensing process for businesses in the financial sector.
Funding: $8.1M
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Funding: $8.1M
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Cardless provides a platform that enables consumer brands to launch integrated credit card products within their mobile apps or websites, streamlining the application and account management processes. This solution enhances customer engagement and retention by offering immediate access to digital cards and personalized rewards, while reducing the lengthy implementation timelines typical of traditional credit card programs.
ConfigHub is a centralized, declarative configuration management platform that treats configuration as data, providing a single source of truth for all service settings across environments. It offers automated validation, real‑time impact analysis, versioned history, and one‑click rollback, integrating with CI/CD pipelines to help DevOps and SRE teams prevent misconfigurations, accelerate incident recovery, and ensure consistent, error‑free deployments.
Funding: $3.6M
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Funding: $3.6M
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Young Alfred is an online marketplace that utilizes data analysis to compare home insurance policies from multiple carriers, allowing users to receive accurate, bindable quotes tailored to their specific needs. By streamlining the purchasing process, the platform saves customers an average of $406 and 285 minutes compared to traditional methods.
Federato's RiskOps platform utilizes AI and machine learning to streamline the underwriting process for insurance companies by automatically triaging submissions based on appetite and winnability. This consolidation reduces the number of systems used, enhances submission processing speed, and increases the hit ratio for high-value deals.
Fleet provides a commuter benefits management platform that automates payroll deductions and integrates with over 180 HR systems, enabling employers to offer pre-tax transportation incentives. This solution reduces administrative burdens and ensures compliance with local commuter benefit mandates, helping employees save up to $2,000 annually while promoting sustainable commuting options.
Funding: $2.5M
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Funding: $2.5M
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Gatsby Events is a collaborative event planning platform that consolidates guest lists, communications, and event management tools into a single interface, enabling teams to streamline their planning processes. By integrating with email systems and providing real-time data sharing, it reduces the time spent on outreach and coordination, enhancing overall event execution efficiency.
Glide provides an AI-powered platform for financial institutions to digitize account opening and loan origination processes. The system streamlines workflows, automates customer onboarding, and integrates advanced fraud detection tools. This results in faster decisions, improved customer experiences, and increased operational efficiency for banks and credit unions.
Funding: $15.0M
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Funding: $15.0M
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Guardant Health provides blood-based cancer tests that enable early detection, guide targeted therapy selection for advanced disease, and monitor for minimal residual disease. Their platform analyzes circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) using proprietary epigenomic and genomic profiling to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.
Gusto provides a cloud‑based platform that automates payroll processing, tax filing, time‑and‑attendance tracking, and benefits enrollment for small and mid‑size businesses. The system includes compliance alerts, real‑time reporting, and integrations with accounting and HR tools, allowing firms to consolidate HR functions and reduce manual administration. Optional add‑ons such as global payroll and an API let companies extend payroll capabilities to third‑party applications.
Hedgehog Foods operates robotic farms to cultivate high-quality, organic specialty mushrooms like Shiitake and Oyster varieties. The company focuses on local production to ensure fresh, flavorful ingredients for culinary applications. They provide sustainably sourced fungi directly to restaurants and retailers.
Funding: $12.8M
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Funding: $12.8M
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ImpriMed utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze live cancer cells from dogs diagnosed with lymphoma, predicting their response to various anticancer drugs. This approach enables veterinarians and pet owners to select the most effective treatment options, potentially saving time and reducing costs associated with ineffective therapies.
Funding: $34.7M
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Funding: $34.7M
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Infinite Uptime utilizes AI-powered predictive maintenance analytics and piezoelectric sensing technology to monitor equipment health in real-time, providing precise diagnostics and actionable insights. This approach reduces unplanned downtime and maintenance costs, enhancing overall plant reliability across various industries.
Funding: $30.1M
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Funding: $30.1M
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Interface Bio develops next-generation, multi-targeted immunotherapies by integrating human biology and Artificial Intelligence. The company leverages a platform that mines natural product chemical scaffolds from commensal microbes for therapeutic development. This approach aims to generate safe and effective drug candidates for complex diseases like cancer and autoimmune disorders at an accelerated rate.
Funding: $3.0M
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Funding: $3.0M
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ixlayer provides a cloud-based telehealth platform that enables payors, providers, and government partners to efficiently manage patient testing and care pathways. The platform has facilitated over 4 million patient journeys, improving operational efficiency and access to diagnostic services across more than 1,100 programs nationwide.
Funding: $75.0M
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Funding: $75.0M
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JustAppraised provides an AI‑driven platform that automates the intake, analysis, and routing of property appraisal and deed requests for county governments. The solution extracts data from documents, validates it against public records, and populates internal systems while offering configurable workflow rules, real‑time analytics, and API integrations to streamline operations for assessors, clerks, and 311 citizen‑service centers.
Funding: $120.0K
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Funding: $120.0K
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Neura Health is a virtual neurology clinic that connects patients with board-certified neurologists for video consultations, enabling timely diagnosis and personalized treatment plans for various neurological conditions. The platform provides 24/7 access to a dedicated care team, reducing emergency room visits and improving patient outcomes through tailored health coaching and medication management.
Funding: $10.4M
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Funding: $10.4M
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Osmind provides a psychiatry-tailored Electronic Health Record (EHR) system integrated with specialized billing and prior authorization services for treatments like Spravato and TMS. This platform helps independent psychiatry practices streamline operations, maximize revenue collection, and reduce administrative burdens. Clinicians also gain access to a network for sharing best practices and contributing to mental health research.
Funding: $57.2M
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Funding: $57.2M
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Pando creates founder peer groups that utilize income pooling to provide financial diversification and risk mitigation for startup founders. This model fosters a supportive community that enhances collaboration and accelerates growth by aligning the financial incentives of its members.
Funding: $11.3M
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Funding: $11.3M
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