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Mar Hershenson is passionate about soccer but mostly about FC Barcelona. More than 20 years after immigrating to the U.S. from Spain, she enjoys few things more than watching Blaugrana prevail in a close match with Real Madrid. As a co-founder and managing partner at Pear Ventures, she brings operational and technical expertise to the investment team. After earning a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999, she had developed a ground-breaking technique for optimizing the design of analog semiconductors.
Having combined a hardware/software focus during her studies, she spent the next 13 years co-founding three startups in the mobile/e-commerce, enterprise software, and semiconductor industries, work that led eventually to her registering 14 separate patents.
Mar has been recognized by MIT Technology Review as a Top Innovator Under 35, named a Champion of Innovation by Fast Company, included by EE Times in its listing of the Top 10 Women in Microelectronics, and awarded the Digital Automation Conference’s Marie R. Pistilli Achievement Award.
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Supporting great minds to build prominent companies from the ground up. They understand what it means to build something from nothing. That journey defines each of their life stories. They are immigrants, having come to America penniless, but with big ideas. They've been entrepreneurs, determined to build great companies. They know now that success emerges only for those who have endured setbacks and overcome hurdles. They’ve learned from their failures, and they know what it takes to succeed. There are no shortcuts when it comes building something extraordinary. All of this finds expression in their work Their success has been rooted in their ability to find those entrepreneurs before others see their potential. They build the bridge between great ideas and the markets that need them. But that’s not all. Once they are already on their way, they lend support and expertise to help their founders make the next jump.