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AI Spaces we’re especially excited about Over the past year, Pear’s AI team has developed a thesis covering 16 pivotal areas in AI. We have already begun backing companies within many of these areas and look forward to meeting more exceptional founders innovating in these fields: 1-Human-Simulating Agents: AI agents that simulate human interactions, from companions to customer support. 2-Security and Assurance: AI leveraged solutions for defense through risks detection, prioritization, and automated mitigation, as well as evaluation and improvement of LLMs reliability 3-Synthetic Data Pipelines: Automated data gaps detection and synthetic data generation to train and improve LLMs performance. 4- Video: GenAI enabled creation, efficient editing, and enhancement of videos, revolutionizing both the movie and marketing industries. 5-Robotics: The era of robots has arrived. Standardization across hardware and software as well as model proliferation, allowing growing adoption of AI powered robots. 6-Domain-Specific Agents: Industry specialized AI agents capable of making intelligent decisions independently in code, healthcare, marketing and more. 7-Data is the New Code: Advanced data pipelines and integration solutions for AI orchestration layer. 8- Healthcare and Biotech: AI-based platforms improving healthcare efficiency, reducing costs and error rates, and discovering new medical devices and biotech solutions. 9-Enterprise Apps: Lean and customized apps built and powered by AI, delivering improved performance with minimal implementation effort. 10-New Models Modalities: Generative AI models capable of processing new, varied inputs such as biological and sensors data. 11-Dev Tools: Highly reliable and productive dev tools to detect bugs, test, and fix code, as well as to build new internal AI applications. 12-Simulations: AI-driven simulations allowing high accuracy and fidelity in complex simulations in a shorter time and less labor involved. 13-Application Layer: AI-based applications enhancing employee performance, saving time, and reducing manual work. 14-Marketplaces: AI-enabled marketplaces supercharging demand, supply or both sides with AI. 15-Evolution and Observation: New CI/CD platforms for AI systems. 16- Automations: AI-powered automation of workflows for process discovery, abstraction, and improved execution. Arash Afrakhteh Arpan Shah Shravan Reddy Pear VC https://lnkd.in/guQ2TGVA

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🌟 Awesome evening yesterday at the Pear VC CoLab networking event! 🌟 I had a wonderful time connecting with both physicians and engineers in the healthcare innovation space. Shout out to the amazing team #6, Akhilesh Gupta, Jenelle Jindal, Sabrina Qi, and Daniela Velez! It was a blast to work with you on #healthcareaccess and I hope we can collaborate again in the future. I was also thrilled to run into some of my favorite clinical informaticists in the bay area, Matthew Sakumoto, Shivam Vedak, MD MBA, and Dong-han Yao, MD and have a chance to catch up and exchange ideas. Many thanks to Andrew Parambath, Vivien Ho, and Lipsa P. for hosting us in your beautiful space. Looking forward to the next event! #HealthcareInnovation #Collaboration #HealthTech #PearVC

I'm still thinking about last night's first Pear VC Care Colab...the Pear team healthcare team, Lipsa P. and Andrew Parambath, brought together 40+ clinicians and engineers to collaborate and pitch new solutions with the Pear's idea validation framework. We were lucky to have Dr. Jessica Mega give us inspirational welcome remarks on what she wish she knew when she joined Verily as a Co-Founder as a Cardiologist. I wanted to share a few of her inspirations which I think apply to any healthcare innovator whether at a startup or as a builder or clinician or any stakeholder in the system. 1. Start with a "Yes" mindset and focus on what is possible, rather than immediately thinking about reasons why something can't be done. Jessica shared that as technical individuals, it's very quick and easy to start thinking about reasons why something can't be possible, but it's our job to dream the possible, and together with these dyads, you're going to be able to see the world in a different way. Pessimists sound smart, but optimists make money, and optimists have good ideas. She reminds us to start with the idea of something could be possible. 2. Get out of your specialized lane and learn about other domains and perspectives to solve problems more effectively. Jessica reminds me us that we don't have to wear one hat. Both engineers and clinicians can come up with great ideas. 3. Become "bilingual" - learn to understand and communicate with people from different backgrounds and disciplines. We need to speak the same language in order to move forward and build together. Thank you Jessica for your wise words and your generosity to spend time with us and for being a Pear Healthcare Advisor! We hope exciting relationships bloom for this event and we continue to practice multi-disciplinary mindset to healthcare innovation. Our industry is not for the faint-hearted, but knowing the incredible builders and clinicians who are young and hungry to bring new technology to the forefront. We're going to be in good hands. Lucky to work with the amazing Pear healthcare team Lipsa P. and Andrew Parambath for working super hard to make this an impactful workshop, and grateful we can put this on while we're all the bay this summer! Shoutout to Hannah Berke, Rachael Ding, and Kaitlin Shavey for always making sure Pear Studio events are in good hands! #healthcareinnovation

Charlotte Ehrlich and I spoke with investors at General Catalyst, Playground Global, Khosla Ventures, Pear VC, and more about where the money is in AI-powered drug discovery. Subscribe to Newcomer to see which investors and startups in AI/Bio you should be following:

We're so proud of Vanta for successfully closing a $150M Series C round led by Sequoia Capital and joined by so many other fantastic investors. We led Vanta's Seed round in 2018 and participated in the Series A and B rounds. It's been amazing to watch the progress that Christina Cacioppo and the entire team has made over the last two years -- we know the future is bright for Vanta and are cheering them on!

Welcome Warren Shaeffer. So excited to have you join us!

I was really honored to help the All Raise team in a small way this year as a volunteer contributor to the 2023 Annual Report. I have so much respect for the team that works tirelessly day in and day out to shift power and move the needle on representation in the VC and thus the tech ecosystem. Thank you Paige Hendrix Buckner, Dana M. Wildeboer, Angela P., Aileen Lee, and all of the others that dedicate so much time behind the scenes to this org. And with this report release, I have to shout out to my team at Pear. I'm really proud to work for a firm that really lives up to the All Raise goal of a vibrant & inclusive VC ecosystem and is always trying to "walk the walk" here. Pear is female-led (shout out to the best Mar Hershenson), we have a team that is over 50% female, and we have so many badass female check writers (looking at you Vivien Ho, Kathleen Estreich, Danielle Jing, Aparna Sinha). Over 45% of Pear-backed companies have a female founder, a number that is sadly not the norm in our industry. There is so much more to do, but progress is progress and it's important to celebrate it. It's been really cool to be a part of this All Raise report, and I'm excited to keep chipping away at these goals.

We love supporting Bella Liu, WILL (Dongxu) LU, and the entire Orby AI team!

Congratulations to Mar Hershenson for being named to the inaugural Women in Power List alongside so many other powerhouses. Thank you Yasi Baiani for the recognition and for amplifying these women!