PearX CMU Professor Breakfast

​Join us for a breakfast between PearX and CMU Professors.

​Pear VC supports professors and researchers in turning breakthrough ideas into enduring companies. 

​Most recently, we backed CMU professor Pradeep Ravikumar as he builds his startup, Wood Wide AI. We have also previously backed Professor founders like Barzan Mozafari (Michigan), Hani Goodarzi (UCSF), and Tengyu Ma (Stanford). Take a look at our deep tech, biotech, and AI portfolio companies as well as our deeply technical Partners at Pear that lead these verticals, Mar, Arash & Eddie. We’re excited to share how Pear can help CMU faculty transform cutting-edge research into impactful ventures. Lastly, we will soon be reopening applications to our AI Researcher Grant, which we will talk more about at our breakfast. 

​PearX is our bespoke accelerator for early stage companies. We keep the batches small (~20 companies) and the quality high. 90% of the last batch raised seed rounds led by top-tier institutional firms, and over a third of the batch hit $1M in revenue by demo day.

​Applications for our Winter 2026 PearX cohort just opened (you can also apply for early acceptance into our Summer 2026 batch). The cohort will officially kick off in January and run for 12 weeks. The deadline to apply is September 13th at 11:59 PM PST.