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Pear VC
States plainly that it specialises in pre-seed and seed. Runs several named founder programmes, including Dorm for student founders, and Female Founders Circles and Persian Founders Circles.
Criteria: Offers named founder services in talent and recruiting, fundraising, go-to-market, and public relations and marketing. Publishes no check size, no fund size and no application route on its homepage, and does not enumerate its verticals there.
What this means for your pitchThe programmes are the door. For a student or a first-time founder without a network, a named circle or the Dorm programme is a far more realistic entry point than a cold approach to the fund, and it costs an application rather than an introduction.
Check sizes, fund size and vertical focus are not published on the firm's homepage.
Pear VCChecked 17 August 2026
From Pear VC's own site and announcements · checked 26 August 2026 · selective, not comprehensive · verify on the firm's pages
Pear published an announcement of portfolio company Gravis Robotics' $200 million Series A led by SoftBank. Gravis, an ETH Zurich spinout, builds autonomous control systems for excavators and earthmoving equipment, initially selling assisted modes that the firm states improve operator productivity by roughly 30 percent.
Pear announced its investment in Maximum, a company building a cloud native, AI powered core operating system for banks covering ledger, compliance, payments, and risk infrastructure. Maximum raised a $30 million seed round led by CRV with Pear as the second largest investor, and it is founder Randy Fernando's third company after exits to Acorns and Marqeta.
Pear opened applications for PearX S26, a 12-week pre-seed program starting in July 2026 that offers $250,000 to $2 million in funding, over $1 million in cloud credits, and hands-on help with recruiting, go to market, and fundraising. The early application deadline was February 22, 2026 and the regular deadline was April 12, 2026, with idea stage teams welcome.