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Pejman Mar

At Pear Demo Day in Palo Alto, 13 Companies to Watch

As  dozens of Teslas baked in the sprawling Palo Alto parking lot of a local law firm yesterday, 100 top investors packed into a high-ceilinged meeting room. There, they listened as 13 startups deliver four-minute presentations about why they’re worth watching. The companies — all of them roughly six months old or younger, and all led by current college students […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Investment Opportunities Tagged With: Allocate.ai, BlackSMS, Capella Space, DeepLIFT Technologies, Pear, Pejman Mar

The Kingmaker in the Background: Kathryn Gould

Most venture capitalists don’t curse like sailors. Most can’t boast a 90 percent internal rate of return over the course of their investing careers, either. Kathryn Gould — the inimitable founder of Foundation Capital, who today spends much of her time today on her vineyard in the foothills of California’s Sierra mountain range — is […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital, Floodgate, Foundation Capital, Kathryn Gould, Mar Hershenson, Mike Maples, Pejman Mar

On the Bias Toward Writing About Bias

The last two years have seen countless articles about why there aren’t more successful women in tech. First, a story is published about the dearth of female entrepreneurs or female investors (or both), then people either applaud the piece or enumerate why its wrong-headed (or both). Finally, someone else is legitimately wronged by some knucklehead, […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Amanda Bradford, Branch Metrics, Mar Hershenson, NEA, Pejman Mar, Seghete, The League

In Palo Alto, a Micro Community in the Making

On Tuesday, in leafy Palo Alto, Ca., tucked away in a nondescript office enlivened by bright, computer-themed art, the 1.5-year-old early-stage firm Pejman Mar Ventures welcomed journalists and investors to watch half a dozen startups explain what it is that they’re doing. Four of the teams were comprised of Stanford students who had tinkered on their […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics, Fundraising Tagged With: Fieldbook, Pejman Mar, Solvvy

StrictlyVC: June 17, 2014

Good Tuesday morning, everyone! We’re so sorry to those of you who tried and couldn’t click through yesterday’s assortment of links. Our ESP was doing some closed-curtain emergency maintenance until around noon PST. (We’re just relieved that we didn’t find a digital dust pile when we were allowed back into the system.) —– Top News […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: Pejman Mar

True Seed Investors

In recent years, the bar has been steadily rising for funding rounds of all sizes, including seed rounds. Indeed, last week, early-stage investor Jeff Clavier told us that “there are way more seed [stage] VCs investing at the same time – when there are proof points – than those who just go with their gut instincts.” Clavier […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Pejman Mar

Silicon Valley’s Most Famous Rug Dealer Forms a New Fund

Pejman Nozad, Silicon Valley’s best-known rug dealer, has launched a new, low-flying venture firm. According to SEC filings, Nozad began raising $20 million for the new firm, Pejman Mar, a couple of months ago; his cofounder in the venture is serial entrepreneur Mar Hershenson. The new effort isn’t exactly top secret. Nozad has himself mentioned it […]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: Amidzad Partners, Mar Hershenson, Pejman Mar, Pejman Nozad

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