Pear VC

We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. We partner with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies.

[Edward Kim @edawerd]

Meet Gusto Cofounder: An AI teammate that already knows your business and actually does the work.

Most AI just answers questions. This runs payroll, flags compliance deadlines, handles time-off requests, and works over text or Slack.

Because every founder deserves a cofounder.

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Let's go @speridlabs! 🚀

[Speridlabs @speridlabs]

Today we introduce Speridlabs.

The world is not flat. That is why we are building Spatial AI — foundation models that understand and generate the 3D world.

Out of stealth. Backed by @Base10Partners and @pearvc.

https://t.co/9UJPCgSD8W → The shape of intelligence.

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Congrats to @forushq on raising $160M to unlock better medicine for more patients.

Sahir Jaggi and team are building an AI-powered network that accelerates medicine for the people who need it, prescribe it, and create it.

And they're just getting started. 🚀

Proud to back Forus alongside @ThriveCapital @generalcatalyst @Accel @BainCapVC @Redpoint and @BoxGroup.

[Forus @forushq]

Today we’re introducing Forus and announcing $160M to build the foundation for modern medicine.

Science should be the only limit to medicine. Today it isn’t. Drug discovery is moving faster, but the system that turns it into real-world treatment isn’t.

https://t.co/kideEzsDjO

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Construction companies spend $17B a year on project estimation, yet bidding on a new job is still largely manual, requiring estimators to measure every detail from satellite imagery, blueprints, and site visits.

From our PearX W26 cohort, https://t.co/6iGBDBqSZ0 uses computer vision to turn aerial imagery into bid-ready cost estimates in seconds, helping contractors bid on more projects without growing headcount.

Their platform automates one of the biggest bottlenecks in construction workflows: translating raw property data into accurate, scalable estimates.

The traction speaks for itself, TruTec launched in January 2026 and is already serving dozens of customers.

We’re excited to partner with Ross Stitts and Ryan Brown as they modernize construction bidding. 🚀

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Congrats to the entire @GustoHQ team on reaching $1B in revenue. 👏

From day one @joshuareeves @tomerlondon @edawerd have built with deep care for small businesses.

Milestone by milestone, they've stayed relentlessly customer obsessed, acted with bold conviction, and continuously raised the bar to help entrepreneurs build and grow their businesses.

And they're just getting started.

https://t.co/aeeD5u2XgU

[Josh Reeves @joshuareeves]

Our mission at @GustoHQ is to grow the small business economy with technology and heart. We are deeply grateful to all the work small businesses do every day in communities everywhere, and we are committed to being their partner, taking hats off their head, delivering them peace of mind, and giving them superpowers, so they can progress their business.

@agarfinks from @FortuneMagazine has been following Gusto for a long time, and we recently shared with her some milestones in our journey of building Gusto (including passing $1b of revenue). These are still the early days of what’s possible. We are building Gusto for the long term, and when small businesses succeed, we succeed.

[Pear VC @pearvc]

@joshuareeves @GustoHQ Huge congrats @GustoHQ !

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Each year, medical device and pharma companies lose $80B+ in revenue to insurance denials, even after FDA approval, while patients are left to navigate insurance coverage on their own.

The team building https://t.co/eIhf7tPlnG knows this problem firsthand.

While at Stanford GSB, CEO Haley King met Alex Lacey, who once overturned a $40K health insurance denial with the help of an anonymous Reddit user. Driven by Alex’s personal experience, they decided to build a company to help patients navigate health insurance appeals.

Shortly after they met another Stanford student, Malcolm Asher working on the same problem. As it turns out, Malcolm was the anonymous Reddit user who helped Alex with his appeal.

The three joined forces, and Paxos Health was born.

Paxos Health uses AI to help patient access teams navigate complex payer rules, clinical guidelines, and appeals workflows—turning a slow, manual process into a structured, repeatable system.

By analyzing coverage policies and clinical evidence, they help teams build stronger cases, streamline appeals, and secure more approvals so patients can access care faster.

Congrats to Haley and team on taking the stage at our PearX W26 Demo Day. They're just getting started! 🚀

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Big congrats to @TrustVanta on this incredible milestone. 🚀

Trust is everything in an AI world, and Vanta is helping its 16,000+ customers—from startup to enterprise—earn and prove it continuously.

[Vanta @TrustVanta]

$300M ARR. Just 9 months after hitting $200M, and growing faster every quarter.🚀

We founded Vanta to help businesses earn and prove trust. Businesses face more pressure than ever because trust leads to growth in the age of AI.

70% of companies now have Shadow AI operating in their environments, and AI tools are 52% more likely to carry a high risk designation than traditional SaaS. The compliance programs designed for annual audits weren't built for this, and neither was the old way of doing GRC.

So we rebuilt it. The Vanta Agent runs as a 24/7 GRC engineer, eliminating the manual work that used to slow security teams down and orchestrating compliance, vendor risk, audits, and more, continuously. The Trust Graph maps your entire security posture in real time, so nothing slips through the cracks between reviews.

16,000 companies now run their security programs on Vanta, including 60% of the Forbes AI 50 and enterprises like Cursor, Samsara, Atlassian, and Snowflake—because the era of proving trust once a year and hoping nothing changes in between is over.

To every customer who helped shape what Vanta is today: thank you. 💜

Read more from our CEO Christina: https://t.co/xQV2HYgTGX

[Pear VC @pearvc]

By 2030, 25% of the manufacturing workforce will retire, leaving over 2 million roles unfilled and creating major constraint on the U.S. industrial base.

https://t.co/Q8TFXRu3VS, from our PearX W26 cohort, is tackling this head-on by building automated, modular machine shops for precision manufacturing.

Their platform combines robotics with a software intelligence layer that reduces manual work and autonomously optimizes production, enabling high-output shops to run with minimal training.

With a small footprint and low upfront cost, Even is building a distributed industrial base that can scale on demand.

Excited to partner with Joey and John as they help modernize critical manufacturing infrastructure. 🚀

[Pear VC @pearvc]

From our PearX W26 cohort, meet https://t.co/GibamSkQoT 🚀

Commercial property owners spend $104B a year on insurance, yet most are underserved by a slow, manual brokerage model.

@BigVik193 and @h_bellala know this pain firsthand, and they're building the first AI-native commercial property insurance brokerage.

Their agents automate the entire placement workflow, from extracting key details in property documents to building a stronger underwriting story to shopping the market more effectively.

The result: better coverage, lower premiums, and faster placements for owners who have historically been overlooked.

We're proud to back partner with Vikram and Hemanth from the very beginning Can't wait to see where they take Quinn next.

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Congrats @joshuareeves and the @GustoHQ team on crossing 500,000+ small business customers! 🚀

From day one, Josh and team have been focused on a simple but powerful idea: small businesses deserve the same caliber of tools as the biggest companies in the world.

And they're just getting started.

Today's Gusto Showcase spotlights nearly 75 product changes—each one inspired by a real customer problem.

Read more from Josh: https://t.co/nFWcvVnAeJ

[Josh Reeves @joshuareeves]

Today is a Gusto Showcase! It’s one of my favorite moments, when we share a summary of how we’re making Gusto better for our 500,000+ small business customers.

At @GustoHQ, we obsess over helping small businesses, and every challenge they face is an opportunity for us to help. Gusto has never been just a tool or technology. We strive to be a partner for small businesses, taking hats off their head, doing work on their behalf, so they can progress in building their business.

With 500,000+ customers, we know we’re still early in the journey. There are millions of small businesses we are eager to serve.

The future of business is small. And that’s big. #GustoShowcase

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Let's go @nomadicai! 🚀

[Nomadic AI @nomadicai]

The future of computer vision is agentic.

1/ We built Nomadic around a gap we kept seeing in video understanding: VLMs generate chain-of-thought that's fluent and often correct in structure, but weakly grounded in what's actually in the video.

This limitation shows up in cases like "rolling stops". Is the stop sign actually associated with the vehicle’s lane? Does the ego vehicle ever come to a full stop, or only decelerate?

[Pear VC @pearvc]

@anvisha Amazing, congrats @anvisha @trymoda! 🎉

[Pear VC @pearvc]

@ishansharmaster Congrats @ishansharmaster! Let's go Selix 🚀

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Yesterday 13 teams took the stage at Demo Day to unveil what they've been building in an exclusive first look at our PearX W26 cohort. 🚀

From automated machine shops for US Defense to a security frontier lab for autonomous cyber defense, we're so proud of everything this group of founders accomplished in just 12 weeks.

If you missed the show yesterday, you can learn about all 13 companies at 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆.𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿.𝘃𝗰

Or join us for Virtual Demo Day on Tuesday, April 7th: https://t.co/i1EGCQlw91

[Pear VC @pearvc]

@KatieS @pejmannozad @MarHershenson Thanks for joining us!

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Congrats to @NomadicML on their $8.4M raise 🎉

Robotics & AV generate massive video data, tut the bottleneck is actually making sense of it.

Nomadic is building infrastructure for reasoning over video, not just labeling.

Excited to partner with Mustafa and Varun as they build this category. 🚀

[Nomadic AI @nomadicai]

🚀 We raised $8.4M from TQ Ventures, Pear VC, Jeff Dean, Scott Wu, and others who believe visual data infra is the defining bottleneck in physical AI!

[Pear VC @pearvc]

@wwshaef @anvisha @trymoda We love @trymoda!

[Pear VC @pearvc]

Congrats @anvisha. Excited to be part of Moda's journey! ✨

[Anvisha @anvisha]

We raised $7.5M to kill AI slop.

Introducing Moda: the world's first design agent with taste.

RT+ comment “Moda” and we’ll design your brand for FREE.