PearX (Pear VC)

Rolling

Sample data — names, dates, cheque sizes and terms here are illustrative, not verified.

Pear VC's flagship accelerator. Highly personalized — small cohorts with dedicated partner support. 90% of graduates raise a seed round. Free office space for 6 months.

Tier

Tier B

Application questions 34

01

Company name

Required.
02

Company website URL

Optional.
03

Headquarters country

Required.
04

Headquarters city

Required.
05

How much funding have you raised to date?

Required. List amounts and investor names; enter 0 if no funding.
06

🏗️ Industry: Primary

Required. B2B; Biotech; Consumer; Deep Tech; Education; Fintech; Government; Healthcare; Real Estate & Property Tech.
07

One-line description of the company

Required. One-sentence pitch.
08

Please record a 1-min video introducing yourselves and the company

Required. Link to an unlisted YouTube video.
09

Product demo video URL

Optional. Link to an unlisted YouTube video.
10

Submit your pitch deck in PDF format

Optional PDF upload. Not a prose answer.
11

What are you building, and why?

Required.
12

What unique insight do you have into this problem?

Required.
13

How far along are you?

Required. Include customer interviews and whether a product is live.
14

Do you have people using your product?

Yes/No.
15

How many active users do you have?

Required when people use the product.
16

Do you have revenue?

Yes/No.
17

How much revenue? How many paying customers?

Required when revenue is Yes. Supply monthly revenue; live form example uses April through September 2025 despite W27 heading.
18

Who are your competitors? How do you differentiate from them?

Required.
19

How big is the market opportunity? Provide a bottoms-up calculation of how you estimated the market size.

Required.
20

How many founders do you have?

Options: 1; 2; 3; 4. Additional-founder branches not verified in this pass.
21

How long have you been working on this company?

Required. Options: <6 months; 6 months - 1 year; > 1 year.
22

What is the equity split among the founders?

Required. List each founder and percentage.
23

Full name

Required. CEO/Founder #1.
24

LinkedIn URL

Required. CEO/Founder #1.
25

Email

Required. CEO/Founder #1.
26

Phone number

Optional. CEO/Founder #1.
27

Are you currently working on this startup full-time or part-time?

Required. Full-time/Part-time.
28

Are you currently a student?

Required. Yes/No.
29

College / University

Required for student founders.
30

Current degree program:

Required for student founders. Dropdown choices not captured.
31

Please share an example of a time you tackled a problem in a novel way and achieved something truly impressive.

Required.
32

We are looking for outlier founders. What makes you an outlier?

Required.
33

Have you applied to PearX before?

Required. Yes/No.
34

How did you first hear about PearX?

Required. Pear Employee; Pear Community; Pear Founder; Pear Fellow; Pear Event; Friend; Email list; X / Twitter; LinkedIn; Google / ChatGPT / Claude / Perplexity, etc.; Other.

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