Pear, now nearly 10 years old and with numerous hits, looks to close its biggest fund by far
Pear, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm that we’ve been tracking since its outset in 2012, looks to be closing in on its fourth fund with $410 million in capital commitments, shows a new SEC filing . It would be a big step up from Pear’s first three funds, which closed progressively with $50 million in 2013, $75 million in 2016, and $160 million in capital commitments in 2019, including from a longtime limited partner, the University of Chicago. Reached for comment, cofounder Pejman Nozad emailed back, “I can’t comment!” Nozad and cofounder Mar Hershenson have long been first-stop for prominent early-stage investors that are looking to fund nascent teams, given the firm has been among the earliest backers in a notable number of companies that have gone to raise ever-bigger rounds and higher valuations, including the now publicly traded companies DoorDash and Guardant Health. Other startups to attract capital from Pear before nearly any other firm was aware of their existence incl
