Pear VC Speaker Series: Grant Lee, CEO & Co-Founder of Gamma

​We’re excited to host Grant Lee, CEO & Co-founder of Gamma for the first Pear VC Speaker Series event of 2026. 

​In conversation with Pear partner Warren Shaeffer, Grant will share how he built a $2.1B company with fewer than 50 employees—and what he learned along the way. 

​Spots are limited. Request to join the waitlist today! Thank you to our friends at Mercury for sponsoring this event. 

​Grant Lee

​CEO & Co-founder of Gamma

​Grant Lee is the CEO and Co-founder of Gamma, an AI-powered presentation and website tool that has scaled to 50 million customers and $50M ARR with fewer than 50 employees. A Stanford-trained engineer with a finance and operations background, Grant was inspired to found Gamma by his experience creating countless slide decks. He previously served as COO of ClearBrain (acquired by Amplitude) and CFO of Optimizely. Forbes recently named Gamma a Next Billion-Dollar Startup.

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​Pear VC

​Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs from their earliest days to build category-defining companies. Pear has backed iconic companies such as DoorDash, Guardant, Gusto, Branch, Vanta, Aurora Solar, and more at the earliest stages. We're company builders, with our Partners having founded 15+ startups. We help companies find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hire, and overcome other critical business challenges.

​Mercury

​Mercury provides transformative banking for ambitious entrepreneurs. Unlike traditional banking that simply holds money, Mercury merges banking with software built for precision and speed to help entrepreneurs accomplish everything they want with their money. With banking, credit cards*, and financial software, Mercury helps more than 200K ambitious companies build great things. To learn more, visit Mercury.com.

​*Disclaimer: Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC. Deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank.