| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.10.2024 | Counsel Health Launches with $11M to Deliver Physician-Led, AI-Powered Medical Advice | What You Should Know:
– Counsel Health announces $11M in Seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health, with participation from Asymmetric Capital Partners, Floodgate Fund and Pear VC.
– The funding will support Counsel’s nati... |
| 23.10.2024 | Counsel Health: A New Era in Virtual Healthcare | In the vast landscape of healthcare, a new player has emerged, ready to reshape the way we think about medical advice. Counsel Health, a virtual medical practice based in Canton, Massachusetts, has recently launched with a significant boost... |
| 21.10.2024 | Counsel Health Raises $11M in Seed Funding | Counsel Health, a Canton, MA-based virtual medical practice specializing in messaging-based care, came out of stealth alongside $11M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health, with participation from Asym... |
| 27.07.2024 | Seven Starling: Women’s Behavioral Health Services Virtual Provider Raises $10.9 Million | Seven Starling, a virtual provider of women’s behavioral health services, announced it has raised $10.9 million in Series A funding. RH Capital led the oversubscribed investment round, with participation from insiders Pear VC, Expa, Magnify... |
| 20.07.2024 | OnRamp Revolutionizes B2B Customer Onboarding with $14.2M in Funding | OnRamp, the trailblazing company that automates and streamlines the post-sales process for B2B customer onboarding, has secured a whopping $14.2M in funding. Led by Javelin Venture Partners and supported by a lineup of top-tier investors, i... |
| 19.07.2024 | OnRamp Announces $14.2M in Funding to Automate B2B Customer Onboarding | OnRamp, the company that delivers seamless customer onboarding by automating and streamlining the post-sales process, announced today it has raised $14.2M across a seed and recent Series A funding rounds. Javelin Venture Partners led the Se... |
| 10.07.2024 | Orby AI: $30 Million Raised To Develop AI Solutions For Enterprises | Orby AI, a company developing generative AI solutions for the enterprise, announced the closing of its $30 million series A round of financing. The Series A round was co-led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Wing VC, and WndrCo, with addi... |
| 18.06.2024 | Learn To Win: Enterprise SaaS Training Company Raises $30 Million | Learn to Win, a leading provider of personalized, predictive, and secure enterprise training software, announced it has raised an oversubscribed $30 million in Series A funding led by the Westly Group, with follow-on participation from Norw... |
| 23.02.2024 | Axle Health Revolutionizes Home Health Workforce Management | Axle Health, a trailblazer in home health scheduling management software, recently secured a $4.2 million seed round to tackle the critical staffing shortage in the industry. The company's innovative platform optimizes scheduling and routes... |
| 22.02.2024 | Axle Health Secures $4.2M to Combat Home Healthcare Staffing Shortage | What You Should Know:
– Axle Health, a provider of scheduling and workforce management software for home healthcare, today announced the closing of an additional $4.2M in seed funding, bringing its total raised to $4.4M.
– This latest round... |
| 04.12.2023 | Pear VC Opening 30,000-Square-Foot Pear Studio Space in San Francisco for Tech Founders | SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–December 4, 2023–
Today, Pear VC (“Pear”) has announced that it is opening a 30,000-square-foot space in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood. Pear Studio will serve as a collaborative work environment for ... |
| 04.11.2023 | A new breed of companies expand in San Francisco’s prime areas | Ten years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo Alto that was enlivened by bright, computer-themed art. Last week, the outfit — which closed its largest fund to date in May — quietly inked ... |
| 19.07.2023 | 8 VCs say they are still bullish on SAFE rounds, but it’s not 2021 anymore | SAFE rounds, or simple agreements for future equity, have been around since Y Combinator invented them a decade ago. But they took on a different role in 2021 when they became a fast-moving tool that helped startups close deals in mere days... |
| 01.06.2023 | Early DoorDash backer Pear VC picks up over $430m for hefty new seed fund | |
| 30.05.2023 | Pear VC Closes an Oversubscribed $432 Million Seed Fund | MENLO PARK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 30, 2023–
Today, Pear VC (“Pear”) has announced that it closed its 4th fund, closing at $432 million. According to Prequin Ltd., Q4 2022 VC fundraising was down 65% from the previous year.1 This fundra... |
| 30.05.2023 | Pear VC Closes Fourth Seed Fund, at $432M | Pear VC, a Menlo Park, CA-based pre-seed and seed stage VC firm, closed its 4th fund, at $432m.
The funding will be used to continue investing in pre-seed and seed rounds of startups working in competitive areas like AI, and programs like P... |
| 29.05.2023 | Openfort raises $3M Seed round invested by gCC, M11, PearVC, Game7, Newman Capital, Arcane, NGC and business angels | 26/05/2023
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OPENFORT RAISES $3M SEED ROUND INVESTED BY GCC, M11, PEARVC, GAME7, NEWMAN CAPITAL, ARCANE, NGC AND BUSINESS ANGELS.
We are thrilled to announce the seed funding round for Openfort, a platform that streamlines c... |
| 17.05.2023 | Neura Health, Supporting People Living With Chronic Neurological Conditions, Secures $8 Million In Funding | Elizabeth Burstein, cofounder and CEO of Neura HealthNeura Health |
| 10.05.2023 | Exclusive: NEA and Pear VC just led a $4.5 million seed investment in Orby, the AI that wants to make workers more efficient | Orby co-founder Bella Liu and Will Lu alongside Pear VC Partner Arash Afrakhteh Orby This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 14.01.2023 | SportTech: рынок с аудиторией но без денег | Мировой рынок SportTech оценивается примерно в $17 млрд и с уменьшением влияния COVID-19 ожидается значительный значительный рост в ближайшие годы. Так ожидается, что к 2026 году объем рынка будет более $40 млрд.
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| 02.11.2022 | How a hospitality startup founder hooked Google's VC firm to lead its $5.8 seed round with a 4-minute pitch | Jason Shames founded Skipper in 2020 and raised $5.8 million in seed funding this August.
He met his lead investor, Google's Gradient Ventures, through Pear's demo day.
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| 01.11.2022 | How a hospitality startup founder hooked Google's VC firm to lead its $5.8 seed round with a 4-minute pitch | Jason Shames is the founder of Skipper, which recently announced a $5.8 million seed round led by Google's Gradient Ventures. Courtesy of Jason Shames
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| 28.09.2022 | Inspiring the Good Future at Valencia Digital Summit | From humble beginnings to now expecting over 10,000 attendees this October 24th - 26th, Valencia Digital Summit has come a long way in a short amount of time and now garnering the eyes of speakers hailing from titans Airbus, Google, and Ama... |
| 02.06.2022 | Developer infrastructure expert Anand Iyer goes solo with new $20M crypto fund | Engineers are the bedrock of any tech product, and blockchains are no exception. As the race between different chains heats up, communities of loyalists are duking it out to attract developers to their blockchain of choice in hopes that doi... |
| 26.05.2022 | A look at the nine teams that just presented at Pear’s latest demo day | TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. (There we are in the front row in 2016, surrounded by investors, typing away.)
A few things have remained true since that time. There are typicall... |
| 27.04.2022 | PillSorted gets $6-million dose to build the pharmacy of the future | As predictive health becomes increasingly popular within the health tech industry, London-based personalised delivery pharmacy service PillSorted has raised $6 million in funding to develop its product and expand services within London and ... |
| 03.03.2022 | Instacart’s head of talent just left to join Pear VC; here’s his take on the market | Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that the former head of payments at Instacart recently left the grocery delivery outfit for a new adventure. As it happens, Matthew Birnbaum, Instacart’s head of talent acquisition for the past four ye... |
| 02.02.2022 | Neura Health Raises $2.2M to Expand Virtual Neurology Clinic | What You Should Know:
– Created to close the massive access and quality gap in neurological care, Neura Health announced it has raised $2.2M in seed funding from investors Pear VC (Doordash, Guardant Health), Norwest Venture Partners (Calm,... |
| 13.01.2022 | Has Y Combinator’s new deal changed the early-stage investing game? | Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed.
By raising its so-called “standard deal” to include an additional $375,000, th... |
| 28.10.2021 | Crafting a pitch deck that can’t be ignored | Thousands of pitch decks and only a handful of winners. Such is the math of the VC industry right now, what with an explosion of startups and dreams of glory launching every year. VCs are overwhelmed with pitches, which means that crafting ... |
| 15.10.2021 | Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch) | We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear, which is held annually each fall and features (blessedly) just a dozen or so very nascent startups.
Pear, a seed-stage vent... |
| 09.09.2021 | Fractionalized NFTs Get Funding Boost as SZNS Raises $4M From Framework, Dragonfly | Following the success of non-fungible token (NFT) trading collectives like PleasrDAO and Paperclip, a new platform is aiming to make governing, fractionalizing and collateralizing digital art easier.
In a blog post Thursday, SZNS (pronounce... |
| 22.07.2021 | Plant-based cheesemaker Nobell Foods nets $75m from a16z, AgFunder & Breakthrough Energy | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company AgFunder is an investor in Nobell Foods.
Alt-protein startup Nobell Foods has raised $75 million in a Series B round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) – the climate-focused investment group founded b... |
| 03.06.2021 | As Live Events Return, Santa Monica's Fanimal Takes on Ticketing’s Biggest Players | Jonny Halprin loves live events. By his own estimate, Halprin has attended the last eleven Outside Lands festivals, and he longs for savoring a beer and hotdog at Dodger Stadium. With California set to finally open back up and live events s... |
| 14.04.2021 | American company Wage secures US $ 5 million in Series A | Wage, a California (United States) based startup, announced on 13th April 2021 that it has raised US $ 5 million in its series A funding round. The round was led by Gradient Ventures along with participation from Cofound Partners, Bloomberg... |
| 02.02.2021 | San Francisco based learning platform Learn To Win raises US$ 4M | San Francisco based Learn To Win, a high-performance microlearning training program raised US$ 4M in seed funding on 29 January 2021. |
| 29.01.2021 | Learn to Win Launches Active Learning Platform for High-Performance Training | As a Division I college basketball player and U.S. Naval Reserve officer, I saw an opportunity to reimagine training geared towards professionals whose work takes place in the field rather than behind a screen. With Learn to Win, we’ve crea... |
| 24.12.2020 | US seed-stage investing flourished during pandemic | As the United States entered its first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, there were wide expectations in startup land that a reckoning had arrived. But the expected comeuppance of high-burn, high-growth startups fueled by cheap capital provided b... |
| 13.12.2020 | Energy Transition Jobs: Plug Power readies for M&A with new VP, plus Solaria, Samsung SDI, Aurora Solar, QuantumScape | Kevin Kopczynski is now VP of strategy and M&A at Plug Power. Plug Power recently raised about $1 billion to build a network of hydrogen systems for fuel-cell-powered vehicles and forklifts.
Tom Thompson was promoted to VP of sales at h... |
| 10.12.2020 | 51 VCs Who Want To Invest In Women, Black And Latinx, And LGBTQ+ Founders | Erica Chidi, co-founder and chief executive officer of Loom, speaks during the 2020 Makers ... [+] Conference in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. The event gathers industry leading females for roundtable discussio... |
| 03.12.2020 | Venture capital funding in solar, storage and energy intelligence sees a year-end surge | In this year like no other, solar, storage and cleantech investors are finding reasons for optimism — driven, in part, by an incoming Biden administration aiming to enact a $2 trillion climate plan.
Here’s a rundown of these year-end invest... |
| 30.11.2020 | Aurora Solar raises $50M for remote photovoltaic sales and design | Aurora Solar, a SaaS startup developing software that enables solar installers and financiers to design and sell residential solar remotely, raised $50 million in a Series B led by Iconiq Growth, along with existing investors Energize Ventu... |
| 16.10.2020 | Pear hosted its invite-only demo day online this year; here’s what you might have missed | Pear, the eight-year-old, Palo Alto, California-based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent, staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week. ... |
| 28.03.2020 | What Advice Are Venture Capitalists Giving To Startups In Light Of The Coronavirus Crisis? | The coronavirus pandemic is broadly affecting businesses globally, but it is affecting startups particularly hard. In this article, I have gathered some key advice to startups from leading venture capitalists and others connected to the ven... |
| 22.02.2020 | How to raise money – it’s a journey not an event | Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/market fit — and thinking their next goal is to “get funded.”
That’s a mistake.
There are two reasons to raise money:
You h... |
| 22.02.2020 | How to raise money – it’s a journey not an event | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Every year I teach classrooms full of students wh... |
| 29.12.2019 | Wrapping Up CLT’s 2019: Q4 Deals in the Queen City | An exciting Q4 in the Carolinas has left many startups looking forward to a successful 2020. We thought the best way to ring in the new year would be to look back at the most noteworthy fundings, deals, exits, mergers, and acquisitions duri... |
| 10.12.2019 | Pear, whose seed-stage bets are followed closely, just raised $160 million for its third fund | Pear, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Calif.-based seed-stage firm whose bets on nascent startups are closely watched by early-stage investors, has closed on $160 million in capital commitments from a wide array of backers, including a previous ... |
| 26.09.2019 | At the sixth annual Pear Demo Day, weather balloons, branded credit cards and lots of top degrees | Pear, a Palo Alto-based seed-stage fund that has made its name through early bets on Guardant Health, DoorDash, Memebox and Gusto, hosted its sixth annual demo day this week in what proved to be a scorchingly hot afternoon in Woodside, Cali... |
| 19.07.2019 | Mylk Guys wants to be the online vegan grocery store that non-vegans can love | Gaurav Maken, the chief executive officer of the online vegan grocery store Mylk Guys, doesn’t think of his company as a place to just buy food. For him, it’s a testing ground and platform for all of the new food products he expects to be d... |
| 28.10.2018 | These 14 startups, endorsed by the seed-stage investment firm Pear, just hit the fundraising trail | Earlier this week, in a beautiful garden in Woodside, Calif., the team at the five-year-old seed-stage venture firm Pear hosted its fifth annual demo day. It’s an event that’s limited to roughly 100 VCs who year after year happily fill the ... |
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| 04.09.2017 | At Pear demo day, a who’s who of VCs, and plenty of fresh ideas | Pear, a popular seed-stage venture firm whose early bets include Guardant Health, Memebox, and Branch, hosted its fourth demo day in Woodside, Ca., last Thursday, and though it was a scorchingly hot afternoon at a largely outdoor venue, a v... |
| 28.08.2017 | Why the rise of Iranian-Americans in tech is no surprise | Longtime Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has put Iranians and Iranian-Americans in the spotlight. In part, that’s because the 48-year-old, just elected to become Uber’s new CEO, fled Iran with his family at age 9 to escape the Iranian Revolut... |
| 26.05.2017 | Stealthy Boxbot wins the Pear prize for UC Berkeley with a tech for autonomous last-mile delivery | It was a long road that took the two founders of Boxbot from drinks at Drake’s Dealership to winning the prestigious Pear Berkeley Challenge, but both Austin Oehlerking and Mark Godwin are very at home on the road.
The two had successful ca... |
| 17.12.2016 | S Korean cosmetics startup Memebox raises $60m in Series C extension round | Premium
South Korean cosmetics startup Memebox announced it had raised a $60 million Series C extension round led by new and existing investors that include Goodwater Capital, Altos Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Mousse Partners, Formation Grou... |
| 22.09.2016 | Gfycat raises $10 million to help creatives fire up the memes | A startup called Gfycat (which is pronounced “Jiffy Cat”) has raised a mammoth $10 million seed round to turn its already popular user-generated content platform into a revenue generating concern.
On the content creation side of its busines... |
| 01.09.2016 | At Pear Demo Day, 13 companies to watch | As dozens of Teslas baked in the sprawling Palo Alto parking lot of a local law firm yesterday, 100 top investors packed into a high-ceilinged meeting room. There, they listened as 13 startups deliver four-minute presentations about why the... |
| 18.08.2016 | Pejman Mar Ventures Rebrands as Pear | Pejman Mar Ventures, a Palo Alto, CA-based early stage venture capital firm, is changing its name to Pear.
Founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, Pear has invested in such tech startups as Guardant Health, Branchmetrics, Memebox, DoorD... |
| 16.08.2016 | Pejman Mar rebrands as it unveils a $75 million new fund | Likability, intuition, and a strong work ethic is a potent combination in any business, and many in Silicon Valley think seed-stage investors Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson have all three in spades. They “complement each other,” says inves... |
| - | Pear VC: Oversubscribed $432 Million Fund Raised For Seed And Pre-Seed Investments | Pear VC announced that it closed its 4th fund – which was at $432 million. According to Prequin Ltd., the Q4 2022 VC fundraising was down 65% from the previous year. And this fundraising by Pear is one of the largest seed funds raised in re... |
| - | PillSorted gets $6-million dose to build the pharmacy of the future | As predictive health becomes increasingly popular within the health tech industry, London-based personalised delivery pharmacy service PillSorted has raised $6 million in funding to develop its product and expand services within London and ... |
| - | Pear VC’s Pejman Nozad on Going from Carpet Salesman to Early-Stage VC | Pejman Nozad, a founding managing partner at Pear VC, joins this episode of LA Venture to discuss Pear VC's current initiatives, including its accelerator and fellowships. He's seen as one of the most successful angel investors in the area,... |
| - | Топ-6 акселераторов которые принимают стартапы на этапе идеи и дают оценку $6M+ (стоит сохранить!) | Я практически утерял веру в акселерационные программы, которые отбирают 7% за несчастные 100-150к, пока не нашел этих ребят. Эти инвестора верят в стартапы не только процентом, которые они берут, но и деньгами, которые они кладут в компанию... |
| - | Range Biotechnologies Raises $5.2M to Advance Proteomics for Precision Health | What You Should Know:
Range Biotechnologies (Range Bio) announced $5.2M in seed funding, led by TechBio-focused ARTIS Ventures with participation from Pear VC, Page One Ventures, Civilization Ventures, Pillar, Four Cities Capital, Hawktail,... |
| - | After a 2020 drop in investments, female-founded start-ups see funding increase in 2021 | Though the ongoing pandemic has been challenging for women-led businesses, a new report from Pitchbook shows how female founders are navigating the worldwide economic setback.
The 2021 All In: Women in the VC Ecosystem report, co-sponsored ... |
| - | Founders Should Be Skeptical Of Their Own Products Early On: Pear VC’s Ajay Kamat. | Being a traditional bio-researcher, the kind in a lab with a white coat, can be boring work. As anybody who took chemistry in college knows, operating a pipette can be tedious. Doing it for a good portion of the day, five days a week, takes... |
| - | This Week in European Tech: Checkout raises $1 billion, Bolt bags €628 million, Delivery Hero sells off Rappi stake, and more | Happy Friday!
This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 120 tech funding deals worth over €5.4 billion, and over 35 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia and Turkey.
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