Investing Profile

Arash Afrakhteh

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Partner at Pear VC

pear.vcMenlo Park, California

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Networks Arash is a member of

Stanford University Network

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Moving Capital Network

962 CONNECTIONS

Microsoft Network

620 CONNECTIONS

Apple Network

239 CONNECTIONS

Cisco Network

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Current Investing Position

Pear VC Partner

Investment Range

$250K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$5.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$160M

Arash Afrakhteh is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Cloud Infrastructure (Series A)Data Services (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Seed)Data Services (Series A)AI (Seed)AI (Series A)Enterprise (Series A)Consumer Internet (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Data Services (Pre-seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Pre-seed)AI (Pre-seed)Consumer Internet (Pre-seed)Enterprise (Pre-seed)Consumer Internet (Series A)Enterprise (Seed)

Arash Afrakhteh's Investments On Record (7)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Typedef	SeedJun 2025$6M	$6M
Co-investors: Nitay Joffe (Team8)
ConfigHub Inc.	Pre SeedMar 2025$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Aneel Lakhani (Crane Venture Partners), Alex Benik (Encoded Ventures)
DevAI	SeedFeb 2025$6M Pre SeedApr 2024$1M	$7M
Co-investors: Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), Santi Subotovsky (Emergence Capital), Adeyemi Ajao (Base10 (Base10 Partners) ), Rexhep Dollaku (Base10 (Base10 Partners) ), John Monagle (Benchstrength)
Advex AI	SeedNov 2024$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), Ankit Jain (Pathloom), Dayna Grayson (Construct Capital)
Orby AI	Series AJun 2024$30M SeedMay 2023$5M	$35M
Co-investors: Scott Sandell (New Enterprise Associates (NEA))
Aklivity	SeedMay 2022$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Philipp Seifert (468 Capital), Catherine Lu (Basecamp Fund (Seed Fund)), Florian Leibert (468 Capital)
Mezmo	SeedJul 2016$1M	$100M
Co-investors: Whit Bouck (Insight Partners), Joe Floyd (Emergence Capital), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Dave DeWalt (NightDragon), Tom Williams (Williams Family Office), Lily Sarafan (Cota Capital), Kenneth Ballenegger (Oyster Ventures), Jaan Tallinn

Arash Afrakhteh's Experience

Software Engineer MicrosoftPresent

Software Engineer Apple RetailPresent

Software Engineer ApplePresent

Principal Engineer Vertical NetworksPresent

Principal Engineer Vertical CommunicationsPresent

Director of Engineering KANA SoftwarePresent

Director of Engineering Kana Communications (now Kana)Present

Head of Tech for WAN Infrastructure SDN CiscoPresent

Executive Consultant to CEOs / Advisor / Angel Investor / Entrepreneur daffodil.aiPresent

Executive Consultant to CEOs / Advisor / Angel Investor / Entrepreneur Moving CapitalPresent

CTO / Co-Founder / Board of Directors Cariden TechnologiesPresent

Visiting Partner Pear VCPresent

Partner Pear VCPresent

Arash Afrakhteh's Education

Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic MS - incomplete, dropped out to join Microsoft Machine Intelligence and Robotics

Stanford University NDO-post graduate studies Computer Science

Amirkabir University of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic MS - incomplete dropped out to join Microsoft, Machine Intelligence and Robotics

Sharif University of Technology BS Computer Engineering

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