Pear: Nurturing Innovation Through Early-Stage Investment|Pejman Nozad,partner,Pear VC 00:10:00
In 2013, Nozad and his partner Mar Hershenson launched Pear VC, a firm forced on seed stage investments, which has assembled a roughly $50 billion portfolio. This year, he takes the number one spot on the Forbes Midas Seed List.Pear VC backed DoorDash (2020 IPO) at the seed round; in 2022, Senti Bio and voice-assistant provider SoundHound went public via SPAC. Another key investment, diagnostics company Guardant Health, went public in 2018.He was also a seed investor in security provider Vanta--neither of which have gone public. Other prominent investments include Dropbox and Gusto.
