UMich Startup Dinner ft. Pear VC Partner Khalil Fuller

​Pear VC is coming to Michigan. 

​Join us for a curated dinner event with Khalil Fuller of Pear VC (PearX https://pear.vc/pearx/). PearX is Pear’s 12-week accelerator for early-stage founders. We work with a small cohort (~20 companies) and go deep with each team to get them on the path to success as fast as possible. Following Demo Day, 90% of PearX companies raise institution-led seed rounds from top-tier firms. Applications for our Spring 2026 cohort are now open, and programming kicks off in July.  About Pear VC: Pear VC is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture firm that partners with founders from their earliest days to build category-defining companies. Founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, we’ve backed breakout companies like DoorDash, Guardant Health, Gusto, Vanta, Listen Labs, and Viz.AI. We’re company builders and operators—our partners have collectively founded 15+ startups—and we help teams find product-market fit, recruit their first engineering hires, and tackle their most critical early challenges.

​About Khalil Fuller Khalil is a Partner at Pear and a multi-time founder. The companies he has started have cumulatively reached over $100M in revenue and 5M+ users. He was the Co-founder & CEO of Learn Fresh, a K-12 edtech company that makes math fun using the statistics and celebrity of professional sports, the Co-Founder & President of Boundless, a venture studio that builds and backs vertical SaaS companies in overlooked markets, the Founder of Trak Changes, a productivity software tool for the construction industry, and the Founder & CEO of Gift Card Bank, a nonprofit that distributes gift cards to low-income families in need. He graduated from Brown University and earned his MBA & MA Ed from Stanford as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.