Mar Hershenson: Teacher, Entrepreneur, Investor

Mar is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Pear VC. Pear partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford for her breakthrough work in circuit design automation and taught the Analog Circuit Design course at Stanford University for over a decade. Mar made her mark as an entrepreneur by co-founding three companies. She was awarded the renowned T35 Young Innovator Award by MIT, she made it on the Midas Brink List of Top Tech Investors and won the Women in EDA Achievement Award.