Fundraising Fox

Keith Bender

Principal at Pear VC

Palo Alto, California

Writes $1M checks · typically $1M

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Experience

  1. Vocation CapitalFoundercurrent2026 — present
  2. Pear VCFormer Partnercurrent2025 — present
  3. Pear VCPartner2020 — 2025Palo Alto, CA
  4. Bessemer Venture PartnersInvestor2019 — 2020Cambridge, MA
  5. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)Consultant2017 — 2018
  6. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)Associate2015 — 2017
  7. Harvard Innovation LabsVenture Incubation2014 — 2015Greater Boston
  8. The Boston Consulting GroupSummer Associate2014
  9. Arizona Diamondbacks50/50 Raffle Sales Guy2013Phoenix, AZ

Education

  1. Harvard Business SchoolMaster of Business Administration - MBA
  2. Harvard UniversityBachelor’s Degree
  3. Brophy College Preparatory

Skills & more

Fundraising5Seed CapitalInvestments1Market Research5Due DiligenceVenture Capital2

From Keith's professional profile.

Colleagues at Pear VC

Ajay Kamat
Partner at Pear VC
Alex Gao
Engineer at Pear VC
Aparna Sinha
Advisor at Pear VC
Arash Afrakhteh
Partner at Pear VC
Danielle Jing
Associate at Pear VC
Eddie Eltoukhy
Partner at Pear VC
Emma Krivoshein
Senior Operations Associate at Pear VC
Harris Stolzenberg
Partner at Pear VC