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American electrical engineer and entrepreneur
Mar Hershenson
NationalitySpanish and American
Occupation(s)Venture capitalist, electrical engineer, professor, business executive
Years active2004-present

Mar Hershenson is a Spanish-American venture capitalist, electrical engineer, professor, and business executive in the electronic design automation industry. She is the co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC. In 2021, she ranked #29 on Forbes' Midas List.

Education and work

Hershenson graduated with honors with a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain.

She earned M.S. and Ph.D. (2000) from Stanford University. Her graduate research involved application of convex optimization to analog circuit design.


As a graduate student at Stanford, she was CTO and co-founder of Barcelona Design. Later she was CEO and a co-founder of Sabio Labs (2004-2007), which was acquired by Magma Design Automation, and eventually, Mar Hershenson became Vice President of Product Development in the Custom Design Business Unit at Magma (2008-2010).


From 2002-2011, she was consulting assistant professor in electrical engineering at Stanford.

Since 2013, she has been a founding managing partner at Pear VC (founded as Pejman Mar) and represents Pear on the Board of Directors of Solvvy, a startup developer of a customer support platform designed to answer incoming customer questions basing on machine learning.

She was described as "one of the leading women in venture capital in the Bay Area".

Awards and recognition

  • 2011: Women of Influence Award by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
  • 2010: Marie Pistilli Award
  • 2009: Top Ten Women in Microelectronics by EE Times

Personal life

She came to the United States from Barcelona, Spain for a summer job and met her future husband. Her native city gave the name to the company she co-founded.

As of 2010 she has three children.

References

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  3. "Mar Hershenson Bio". Broadway Angels. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  4. "Mar Hershenson joins us at TechCrunch Disrupt on how to craft your pitch deck". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  5. "Stanford ENGR 245 - Lean Launchpad". Stanford. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  6. "Mar Hershenson joins us at TechCrunch Disrupt on how to craft your pitch deck". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
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  8. ^ Hirani, Saad (2016-11-10). "Mar Hershenson - Making Strides in Early Stage Venture Capital". UC Berkeley Sutardja Center. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  9. "Solvvy Company Profile: Valuation & Investors | PitchBook". pitchbook.com. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  10. "Elemental, Muirwoods Ventures and Pear VC discuss investor opportunities at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  11. "EE Times' Top 10 women in microelectronics". EDN. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  12. "MIT Innovators Under 35". MIT. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  13. Mar Hershenson Founding Managing Partner
  14. "Entrepreneur, engineer, energy ... A Conversation: Dr. Mar Hershenson", by Peggy Aycinena

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