Pejman Nozad is the Co-Founder and Founding Managing Partner of Pear VC. Over the past two decades, he has been a seed investor in some of the most iconic tech companies including Doordash, Dropbox, Applovin, Gusto, Guardant Health, Branch, Aurora Solar, Soundhound, CourseHero, Vanta and others. Pejman was ranked #1 in the world on the Forbes Midas Seed List in 2023 and 2024.

As an immigrant from Iran, Pejman did not take the typical path towards becoming a VC. In fact, he is tech’s most unlikely venture capitalist. After arriving in the U.S., he lived in an attic above a yogurt shop and then worked at a rug store in downtown Palo Alto. He immersed himself in the vanguard of technology and slowly, with a few small investments, developed a reputation for both identifying talent and taking promising ideas to the next level.