Investing Profile

Pejman Nozad(216)

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Founding Managing Partner at Pear
pear.vc/pejmanPalo Alto, California
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Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 35 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
38
Current Fund Size
$160M

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Pejman Nozad's Investments On Record (34)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
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), J Zac Stein (Craft Ventures), Michael Katz (mParticle), Ben Narasin (Tenacity Venture Capital)
SoundHound
Post Ipo EquityApr 2022$110M
$230M
Co-investors: Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Larry Marcus (Marcy Venture Partners), Jay Eum (GFT Ventures), Shankar Chandran (Walden Catalyst Ventures), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital)
Maker Wine
Pre SeedDec 2020
$2M
Co-investors: Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Neil Rimer (Index Ventures), Nikil Viswanathan (Alchemy Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), George Bousis (1/1 Capital), Matthew Kaness (Flexsteel Industries Inc.), Mariam Naficy (Heretic Ventures), Drew Taggart (Mantis VC), Alex Pall (Mantis VC), Brigette Lau (Firework Ventures), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), James Beshara, Henry Davis, Chris Fanini, Odell Beckham Jr., Daniel Kan
Fieldbook
SeedApr 2016$2M
SeedNov 2014$730K
$2.7M
Co-investors: Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Idris Mokhtarzada (Pioneer Fund), Kai Gradert (AngelList Syndicator), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Eric Ries, John Collison, Steven Sinofsky, Haroon Mokhtarzada, Mike Greenfield
Guardant Health
Series DJan 2016$100M
Series BApr 2014$30M
$550M
Co-investors: Chris Schaepe (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Matthew Rizzo (OrbiMed), Ling Wong (Highbury Group), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Kyle Kurpinski (Tencent Holdings), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Farzad Nazem, David Chen, Laszlo Bock
Philz Coffee
Series BFeb 2015$15M
$30M
Co-investors: Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Tina Sharkey (Sherpa Ventures), Mike Ghaffary (Canvas Ventures), Brendan Wallace (Fifth Wall), David Spector (ThirdLove), Mike Schroepfer (Gigascale Capital), Greg Goldfarb (Summit Partners), Maynard Webb (Webb Investment Network), Philipp Stauffer (Fyrefly VC), Raj Sandhu (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Salil Deshpande (Uncorrelated Ventures), Calvin Broadus (Casa Verde Capital), Brett Rochkind (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Nasir Jones (QueensBridge Venture Partners), Scott Stanford (ACME Capital), Steven Denning (General Atlantic), Shervin Pishevar
Evergive
SeedMar 2014$1M
$1.3M
Co-investors: Christian Dahlen (Band of Angels), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital)

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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