Mar Hershenson

Mar Hershenson is a Spanish-American venture capitalist, electrical engineer, professor, and business executive in the electronic design automation industry. She is the co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC. In 2021, she ranked #29 on Forbes' Midas List.[1]

Mar Hershenson
NationalitySpanish and American
Occupation(s)Venture capitalist, electrical engineer, professor, business executive
Years active2004-present

Education and work

Hershenson graduated with honors with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain.[2]

She earned M.S. and Ph.D. (2000) from Stanford University.[2][3] Her graduate research involved application of convex optimization to analog circuit design.[3]

As a graduate student as Stanford, she was CTO and co-founder of Barcelona Design. Later she was CEO and a co-founder of Sabio Labs (2004-2007), which was acquired by Magma Design Automation, and eventually, Mar Hershenson became Vice President of Product Development in the Custom Design Business Unit at Magma. (2008-2010)[3]

From 2002-2011, she was consulting assistant professor in electrical engineering at Stanford.[3]

Since 2013, she is a founding managing partner at Pear VC[4] (founded as Pejman Mar[5]) and represents Pear on the Board of Directors of Solvvy, a startup developer of a customer support platform designed to answer incoming customer questions basing on machine learning.[6]

She was described as "one of the leading women in venture capital in the Bay Area".[5]

Awards and recognition

Personal life

She came to the United States from Barcelona, Spain for a summer job and met her future husband. Her native city gave the name to the company she co-founded.[4][7]

As of 2010 she has three children.[8]

References
  1. "Forbes: Mar Hershenson". Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  2. "Mar Hershenson Bio". Broadway Angels. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  3. "DAC News". www.dac.com. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  4. Mar Hershenson Founding Managing Partner
  5. Hirani, Saad (2016-11-10). "Mar Hershenson - Making Strides in Early Stage Venture Capital". UC Berkeley Sutardja Center. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  6. "Solvvy Company Profile: Valuation & Investors | PitchBook". pitchbook.com. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  7. Maria Hershenson, 30, MIT Technology Review
  8. "Entrepreneur, engineer, energy ... A Conversation: Dr. Mar Hershenson", by Peggy Aycinena
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