Pear Accelerator helps you to build the foundations of a long-lasting company.

Pear Accelerator is a structured 3-month program during which we become an extension of your team and use all of our resources, experience, and network to support your company at the earliest stages.

We work with you side-by-side for 3 months

Funding

$150k investment for 5% equity
Demo Day with 400+ top investors in Silicon Valley
Post-demo day fundraising process support
In many cases, Pear Accelerator positions you to raise a $2-3M seed round from a top firm, thus skipping a pre-seed round and its accompanying dilution

Product & Growth Mentorship

Weekly ‘mini board meetings’ with the Pear investment team
Matching with an expert operating mentor
Regular workshops and speaker series with accomplished guest experts
Day to day hands-on mentorship

Resources

Free office space in the Bay Area
$250K+ in startup resources including: free cloud credits (AWS, Google Cloud, etc), discounted legal support from Cooley, plus special deals from service providers (WeWork, Carta, Digital Ocean, etc) and Pear Portfolio (Affinity, Gusto, Heap, Vanta, Nightfall, etc)

Community

Weekly check-ins with other teams in your cohort
Regular social events with your cohort and the broader Pear founder community

Results

Pear Accelerator program companies have gone on to great things.

77% have raised a Seed
36% have already raised a Series A, and more to come!

(Source: 2018 cohort for Seed, 2017 cohort for Series A)

Alumni of Pear Accelerator

How We Collaborate

During the program our team will meet with you regularly to push you on your vision and share best practice to help you hit ambitious milestones.

We'll be hands-on to help you to:

White-board your product strategy
Design and run experiments
Find and close customers
Recruit key employees
Tune your fundraising pitch

Workshops

We host workshops and speaker events geared towards helping you with the most important topics for early-stage startups.

Past guests include: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Mark Pincus (Zynga), John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins), David Marcus (Head of Facebook Messenger), and Jeff Housenbold (Softbank), and more.

Demo Day

To conclude our Pear Accelerator program, we host a Demo Day attended by 400+ top Silicon Valley investors including partners from Sequoia, Accel, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and many more.

We have deep networks in Silicon Valley, and pride ourselves on our ability to connect founders like you with people that can help you achieve your goals.