Investing Profile

Pejman Nozad(216)

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Founding Managing Partner at Pear VC
pear.vc/pejmanPalo Alto, California
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41 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 38 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position
Pear VC Managing Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$2.5M
Investments On Record
39
Current Fund Size
$160M

Pejman Nozad is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Pejman Nozad's Investments On Record (35)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Tycoon
Pre SeedApr 2026$1M
$1M
SellScale
SeedDec 2022$3M
$3M
Thena
Pre SeedMay 2022$2M
$7M
Co-investors: Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), Meka Asonye (First Round Capital), Hemant Mohapatra (Lightspeed India Partners), Ben Narasin (Canvas Prime), J Zac Stein (Craft Ventures), Michael Katz (mParticle)
SoundHound
Post Ipo EquityApr 2022$110M
$230M
Co-investors: Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Jay Eum (GFT Ventures), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Larry Marcus (Marcy Venture Partners), Shankar Chandran (Walden Catalyst Ventures)
Maker Wine
Pre SeedDec 2020
$2M
Co-investors: Neil Rimer (Index Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), George Bousis (1/1 Capital), Matthew Kaness (Flexsteel Industries Inc.), Mariam Naficy (Heretic Ventures), Nikil Viswanathan (The Alchemy Fund), Drew Taggart (Mantis VC), Alex Pall (Mantis VC), Brigette Lau (Firework Ventures), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), Daniel Kan, James Beshara, Henry Davis, Chris Fanini, Odell Beckham Jr.
Fieldbook
SeedApr 2016$2M
SeedNov 2014$730K
$2.7M
Co-investors: Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Steven Sinofsky (Andreessen Horowitz), Kai Gradert (Good Party), Mike Greenfield (TeamRankings.com), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Ries (Long-Term Stock Exchange), Idris Mokhtarzada (Pioneer Fund), Haroon Mokhtarzada, John Collison
Guardant Health
Series DJan 2016$100M
Series BApr 2014$30M
$550M
Co-investors: Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Matthew Rizzo (OrbiMed), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Ling Wong (Highbury Group), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Anthropic), Kyle Kurpinski (Tencent Holdings), Chris Schaepe, David Chen, Laszlo Bock, Farzad Nazem, Frank Malek
Philz Coffee
Series BFeb 2015$15M
$45M
Co-investors: Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Mike Ghaffary (Canvas Ventures), David Spector (ThirdLove), Calvin Broadus (Hotmail), Mike Schroepfer (Gigascale Capital), Greg Goldfarb (Summit Partners), Tina Sharkey (ACME Capital), Maynard Webb (Webb Investment Network), Philipp Stauffer (Fyrfly Venture Partners), Salil Deshpande (Uncorrelated Ventures), Raj Sandhu (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Brendan Wallace (Fifth Wall Ventures), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Steven Denning (General Atlantic), Scott Stanford (ACME Capital), Nasir Jones (QueensBridge Venture Partners), Shervin Pishevar (Craft Ventures)

most interested in

API E-Commerce Education Enterprise Fintech Food and Beverage Future of Work Gaming Government Technology Hardware Health and Wellness Healthcare/Medtech Industrial Internet and Mobile IoT Life Sciences Productivity Proptech/Real Estate Robotics SaaS Social Supply Chain/Logistics Transportation Travel/Hospitality

Pejman Nozad's Experience

Founding Managing Partner Pear VC2013 - Present
Editor in Chief and Publisher Footballmedia2005 - Present
General Partner Amidzad2000 - Present
Member International Sports Press Association1990 - Present
Board Member BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present
General Partner BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present
Board Member Robyn FrankelPresent
Investor branchPresent
General Partner Robyn FrankelPresent
Board Member BHP DevelopmentPresent
General Partner BHP DevelopmentPresent
Editor in Chief and Publisher BHP DevelopmentPresent
Member BHP DevelopmentPresent
General Partner Olympic Children Games 2008 San FranciscoPresent
Editor in Chief and Publisher Olympic Children Games 2008 San FranciscoPresent
Member Olympic Children Games 2008 San FranciscoPresent
General Partner The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Member The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Editor in Chief and Publisher The Grameen Creative LabPresent
General Partner Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Member Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
Editor in Chief and Publisher Center for Rural Health LeadershipPresent
General Partner Self-EmployedPresent
Member Self-EmployedPresent
Investor SoundHound AIPresent
Editor in Chief and Publisher Self-EmployedPresent
investor Zoosk Inc.Present
Investor GustoPresent
Investor BranchPresent
Board Member Top-PatentsPresent
Investor Webs.comPresent
General Partner Top-PatentsPresent
Member Top-PatentsPresent
Editor in Chief and Publisher Top-PatentsPresent
Investor DoorDashPresent
Investor DropboxPresent
Board Member Olympic Children Games 2008 San FranciscoPresent
Investor Gusto!Present
investor ZooskPresent
Investor Branch MetricsPresent
Investor SoundhoundPresent
Board Member NewCoPresent
General Partner NewCoPresent
Member NewCoPresent
Editor in Chief and Publisher NewCoPresent