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Pejman Nozad

general partner at Pear VC

Angel investor and Pear VC founder who shares his personal story and founder evaluation principles.

1 Talk8 Facts8 Sources

Key facts

Founded
Pear VC
Roles
Pear VC, general partner
Built
Pear VC, with Mar Hershenson
By the numbers
seeded over 200 startups in 18 years
Invested in
DoorDash
Danger, first investor
Dropbox, first investor
Meta, declined a Series B investment of $49,998.04 at about an $80 million valuation

Career

  1. Pear VCcurrentas of Mar 2018
    general partner
    Unverified1 source

Timeline 8

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20186 events
  1. as of Mar 2018Investment
    Pejman Nozad invested in DoorDash
    “DoorDash, another amazing Y Combinator company” 42:41
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  2. as of Mar 2018Metric
    Seeded over 200 startups in 18 years
    “I've seeded over 200 startups in the last 18 years” 30:40
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  3. as of Mar 2018Investment
    Pejman Nozad invested in Danger
    first investor
    “I was the first investor in Danger in that room” 40:26
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  4. as of Mar 2018Investment
    Pejman Nozad invested in Dropbox
    first investor
    “That’s the exact room where I met the founders of Dropbox, Drew and Arash, and made a deal with them” 40:38
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  5. as of Mar 2018Career
    Pejman Nozad is general partner at Pear VC
    “I'm a general partner at a VC firm in Silicon Valley” 41:27
    Unverified1 source· Talk
  6. as of Mar 2018Founded
    Pejman Nozad founded Pear VC
    “the founder of Pear VC” 30:05
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20131 event
  1. 2013Built
    Pejman Nozad built Pear VC
    with Mar Hershenson
    “I started a fund in 2013, Pear VC” 45:02
    Unverified1 source· Talk
20051 event
  1. Jul 2005Investment
    Pejman Nozad invested in Meta
    declined a Series B investment of $49,998.04 at about an $80 million valuation
    “an email from July 2005 from Facebook’s lawyer, letting me know I could invest $50,000 in Facebook’s Series B” 43:20
    Unverified1 source· Talk

Talks 1

1:05:30
Startup Investor School Day 3
Elad Gil, Pejman Nozad

Elad Gil explains how he evaluates early-stage startups, prioritizing market size and growth, paying customers, timing, defensibility, and founder qualities. He shares mistakes including passing on Lyft and over-weighting team signals, then outlines practical ways investors can help companies through hiring, fundraising, customer access, and founder support. Pejman Nozad recounts his path from selling Persian carpets to investing, emphasizing relationship-building, persistence, and learning from missed opportunities such as Facebook. Together, they discuss how investors find deal flow, assess uncertain markets, support founders, and handle co-founder conflict.

Mar 8, 2018· 1 h 6 min 0:56