Pear VC Launching Community for Alumni Startup Founders

Keith Bender (MBA ’20) is an investor at Pear VC in Palo Alto. He joined Pear after graduating from HBS, and invests at pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds across industries. Previously, Keith worked at Bessemer Venture Partners and BCG. He is a graduate of Harvard College and is originally from Arizona.  Raunak Kasera (MBA ’23) is a Product Manager at Microsoft and a Pear VC Fellow. He graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford and previously worked at Amazon, Salesforce, and two Bay Area venture capital firms.