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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://luma.com/u2jwjlcz

⏳ PearX S26 applications close in <2 weeks! If you’re thinking about applying, join us for a virtual info session on April 9th at 10am PT to learn more about the program and how we work with founders at pre-seed. Hear from Ajay Kamat (Pear partner) and Nima Mozhgani (PearX alum and Co-Founder & CEO of Blueberry) on what it’s like to build at the earliest stages with PearX. We'll cover: → What the program is → Who it's for → Plus Q&A If you haven't applied, this is your chance to get a feel for PearX before the deadline. 👉 Register here: https://luma.com/52r0bpi0

Congrats to NomadicML on their $8.4M raise led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Pear VC, BAG Ventures, Predictive VC, Jeff Dean, and Scott Wu. 🎉 As robotics and AV systems scale, progress is no longer limited by how much data you have, but whether you can actually make sense of it. Nomadic is building infrastructure for reasoning over video, turning massive volumes of raw footage into structured, trustworthy insights for training and monitoring. Already deployed with customers like Zoox, Mitsubishi Electric, NATIX, and Zendar, the team is tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in physical AI. Excited to partner with Mustafa Bal and Varun Krishnan as they build this category. 🚀

Exciting news from Infinimmune 👇 The team just announced a collaboration with Merck to identify and develop novel antibody therapeutics. From the beginning, Wyatt McDonnell and team have been focused on a simple but ambitious idea: discover antibodies directly from the human immune system and use AI to make them better. With this collaboration, Infinimmune will be able to scale its human-first discovery engine and accelerate the development of differentiated biologics. Congrats to the Infinimmune team! 🎉

Big congrats to Moda on their $7.5M fundraise and public launch. 🚀 Moda is building an AI design agent that actually understands your brand—helping teams create fully editable, on-brand presentations, decks, and assets without sacrificing control. As AI makes it easier than ever to generate content, taste is becoming the real moat. Moda is built for exactly that. We’re already using Moda at Pear and seeing founders adopt it. Excited to partner with Anvisha Pai, Ravi P., and John Holliman, on this one. 👉 Try it here: moda.app

Cardless WindBorne Systems Federato Kale Bobyard Vals AI Piston Technologies Inc Known These are some of our favorite Pear VC companies. And they all came through PearX, our exclusive, small-batch program for pre-seed companies. We love to partner with founders at the earliest, messiest stage of building—and we support them through every stage that follows. Interested in building with us? 👉 PearX S26 applications are open through April 12: https://pear.vc/pearx/

Pear VC partners aren't just investors. We're former founders and operators who work hand in hand with you—right from the start. PearX, our exclusive, small-batch program for pre-seed companies, is built around that philosophy: 🤝 Every PearX company gets a dedicated partner who meets with them weekly (usually more) 🏕️ Each cohort kicks off with Camp Pear, a 3-day immersive focused on product and strategy 📊 Hands-on prep for Demo Day, from pitch refinement to ongoing support to secure the best possible funding 🌱 And it doesn't stop at Demo Day. When we invest, we're in it for the long haul. Here's an inside look at what it's like to build at pre-seed with us from Pear partner Kathleen Estreich 👇 https://lnkd.in/ge4Ekc7E

The most successful companies don't start with a product. They start with a problem worth solving. Today we're sharing Pear's Request for Startups: 11 areas we’re most excited to see founders tackle next. You can read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/g22a2zqp 👇 Here are the highlights: Shravan Reddy 🗺️ Plan-mode for every knowledge worker: Vertical AI that plans before it executes 🔍 Personalized people search for the agent era: Context-rich data for agentic workflows Ryan Sells 🏦 Financial-grade agent infrastructure: Trust, policy & audit layers for agents in finance 🛒 Intent-native commerce infrastructure: Rebuilding commerce for agents, not browsers Mar Hershenson 🎙️ Ambient AI for vertical workflows: The Jump AI / Abridge playbook, applied everywhere 💸  Agents to manage SMB expenses: Continuous cost optimization, running in the background Warren Shaeffer ✅ Verified consumer health marketplaces: Accountability-first health commerce 🤝 IRL trust networks: Real-world reputation, made portable in an AI-saturated world Eddie Eltoukhy 🧬 Foundational datasets for biological intelligence: Closing the data bottleneck in AI-driven biology Andrew Parambath MD MBA 🏥 Systems of record → Systems of coordinated action in healthcare: Beyond EHRs, actual execution across stakeholders 📊 Outcome-based models in healthcare: Paying for results, not activity

Getting access to healthcare shouldn’t depend on waiting on hold. On the latest episode of the Pear Healthcare Playbook, Anson Zhou and Andrew Parambath MD MBA sit down with Jeffery L., Co-founder & Co-CEO of Assort Health, to discuss how AI voice agents are transforming the way patients connect with care. They discuss: The early days of building Assort What it took to get the first real deployments live Why specialty-specific AI matters in healthcare The long-term vision for AI-powered patient access 🎙️ Listen to the episode at the link in comments.

The early application deadline for PearX S26 closed recently — and we’ve already received thousands of applications. 🚀 Our team has been so impressed by the caliber of founders and we're reviewing applications as quickly as we can! The best part? The regular application deadline doesn't close until April 12. If you’re building at pre-seed and looking for a long-term partner from the very beginning, we’d love to meet you. 🍐