Pear VC
Venture Capital
218investments
29open roles
$160kmedian advertised pay
25exits
Overview
Pear VC is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and seed-stage investments in startups. Founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, the firm provides hands-on support in areas such as product development, recruiting, fundraising, and go-to-market strategy. Pear has backed companies including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, and Guardant Health.
How Pear VC hires
Truth index
C 65/100
Median time to fill
64 days
Ghost roles
51%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Pear VC scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 71 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 51% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 64 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Investor profile
Venture capitalInvestments
218
156 of them startups
Hiring now
75
2,745 open roles
Deals in 12 months
1
Rounds in 12 months
24
$926.3M raised
Exits
25
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 36%Software 15%Health Care 15%Financial Services 9%Professional Services 9%Sales & Marketing 6%Transportation & Logistics 5%Real Estate 5%
Where its companies are
United States 47%India 1%United Kingdom 1%Colombia 1%Canada 1%
Stage of its companies
Series B 50%Series A 25%Pre-seed & seed 25%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 218 investments
Flax HealthVenture round $7.9M · this month
Wexler AIVenture round · 1 mo ago
PistonVenture round $15M · 2 mo ago
Gravis RoboticsSeries A $200M · 2 mo ago · 5 roles
Vals AISeries A $40M · 2 mo ago · 5 roles
Windborne SystemsVenture round $37M · 3 mo ago · 5 roles
QuadricSeries C · 3 mo ago · 2 roles
Hexagon Labs, Inc.Venture round $5.8M · 4 mo ago
ConveySeries A $38M · 4 mo ago · 9 roles
IncalmoVenture round $8.7M · 5 mo ago
Kin HealthSeed $9M · 5 mo ago
OnRampSeries A · 5 mo ago · 2 roles
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
New in the portfolioadded to its portfolio page in 6 months
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Y Combinator 
Plug and Play 
Andreessen Horowitz 
Kleiner Perkins 
Felicis 
Sequoia Capital 
General Catalyst 
Khosla Ventures 
Menlo Ventures 
Endeavor Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Soma Capital
First Round Capital
GVSources: its portfolio page, read Nov 8; 4 rounds in the press that name it
Jobs
In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · San Francisco
Python
LLM
Computer Use
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Management
Zapier
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In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · San Francisco
JavaScript
Vercel AI SDK
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
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$180k – $250k per year · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · New York
SQL
AI Agents
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$120k – $160k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · New York
SOC 2
HIPAA
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$160k – $180k per year · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · New York
Digital Twin
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$100k – $150k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Master's Degree · New York
Python
SQL
Jupyter Notebook
Machine Learning
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
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$50k – $70k per year · Remote (United States) · Part-Time · 3+ years exp · Boston
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$120k – $160k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Chicago
Cursor
Claude
ChatGPT
Claude Code
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
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≈ $207k – $412k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Mountain View
Python
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
DevOps
AWS
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$140k – $200k per year · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Electron
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude Code
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
CircleCI
CI/CD
GitHub
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$150k – $180k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · New York
Python
Java
SQL
Flyway
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$40k – $400k
Open positions
26
18
Jobs
Junior
11.1%
Middle
22.2%
Senior
11.1%
Staff
44.4%
Architect
11.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $112k | $74k – $150k |
| Middle | 4 | $250k | $70k – $250k |
| Senior | 2 | $230k | $160k – $300k |
| Staff | 8 | $170k | $100k – $400k |
| Architect | 2 | $178k | $175k – $180k |
Highest paying role
SAP Technical Lead - FlowGen Labs
$400k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Pear VC
By role, level and city, against the market · 26 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
71
18 opened / 13 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+1083%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
15% ▼
Solutions
12% ▲
Operations
9%
Backend
6% ▼
Robotics
6% ▲
Administrative
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Solutions (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: San Jose
Nov 2026
Added Vercel AI SDK to stack
Nov 2026
New location: United States
Nov 2026
Added Next-Generation Sequencing to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Digital Twin to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Orange
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Pear VC over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
76
Postings analysed
36
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
Python39%
SQL17%
TypeScript11%
JavaScript11%
PowerShell3%
Java3%
Node JS3%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js11%
Next.js8%
DeepSpeed6%
ONNX Runtime6%
LangChain6%
LlamaIndex6%
Django3%
Electron3%
Databases
Snowflake14%
DynamoDB6%
OpenSearch6%
PostgreSQL6%
Cloud & platforms
AWS17%
Figma14%
Amazon S36%
Databricks6%
Datadog6%
Grafana6%
Power BI6%
Tableau6%
Developer tools
Claude Code11%
Cursor6%
Jupyter Notebook6%
Loki6%
Terraform6%
Canva3%
CircleCI3%
Flyway3%
AI & ML
LLM31%
Claude6%
ChatGPT6%
Gemini3%
Practices & domains
AI Agents36%
Computer Use22%
CI/CD11%
LLM Guardrails8%
Machine Learning8%
Browser Agents6%
Human-in-the-Loop6%
Multi-Agent Systems6%
Other
Fuel6%
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Connections
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Shared investors
Clean Energy VenturesVia a fund
InforCapitalVia a fund
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News
Now accepting applications: Pear Prime 2027
Every generation produces a small group of engineers who shape the future of technology. They become the founding engineers behind category-defining startups. They push the frontier at the world's leading AI labs and technology companies. They go on to bu
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Our investment in Gravis Robotics
We're excited to share Gravis Robotics has announced a $200M Series A. We first invested in Gravis at seed. Here's why.
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New grad hiring: Why slope, not experience is worth paying for
Over the last four years, the Pear Talent team has made more than 300 hires for pre-seed and seed founders. For most of that time, we had a pretty repeatable playbook for who to hire at this stage and why. The explosion of AI coding tools broke that playb
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Request for Startups: Ideas from iconic founders & leaders
At Pear, we usually invest before there's a product-sometimes before there's even a clear idea. We back exceptional people. But this time, we flipped the script. Instead of asking founders what they're building, we asked some of the world's best founders
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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
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Maximum: Investing in Randy Fernando, again
We're excited to share that we've invested in Maximum's $30M seed round. Read more from Pear VC partner Ryan Sells.
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Legora's buying spree has reached the courtroom
Legora has acquired London startup Wexler to better serve trial lawyers. The deal continues an acquisition spree for the Swedish-born software maker.
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Andera: Investing before the idea
Most VCs claim to invest in people rather than ideas. It's an easy claim to make, because it's almost never tested. By the time most investors show up, there's already an idea, a market and perhaps some traction, so you can't tell which one they actually
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
This company is a staffing agency: the cities below are where its clients hire, not its own offices.
Cities
13
Hiring now
13
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
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44 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 61% engineering 11% remote 10-50 est. staff $264k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Sales
600 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
New York
United States
30 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 3% remote 10-50 est. staff $205k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Solutions
London
United Kingdom
8 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 13% remote 1-10 est. staff $115k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Legal, AI/ML
Lehi
United States
4 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Sales, Customer Success
Chicago
United States
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $130k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Operations
Los Angeles
United States
2 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Backend, Frontend
Seattle
United States
2 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps
Bengaluru
India
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Frontend
Mountain View
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
Menlo Park
United States
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Administrative
Orange
United States
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff $40k Avg Salary
hires for Administrative
San Jose
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $74k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers
Dallas
United States
1 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $155k Avg Salary
hires for Backend