Mar Hershenson | |
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| Nationality | Spanish and American |
| Occupation(s) | Venture capitalist, electrical engineer, professor, business executive |
| Years active | 2004-present |
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. [1] In 2021, she ranked #29 on Forbes ' Midas List. [2]
Hershenson graduated with honors with a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain. [3]
She earned M.S. and Ph.D. (2000) from Stanford University. [4] Her graduate research involved application of convex optimization to analog circuit design. [5]
As a graduate student at 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). [6]
From 2002-2011, she was consulting assistant professor in electrical engineering at Stanford. [7]
Since 2013, she has been a founding managing partner at Pear VC (founded as Pejman Mar) [8] 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. [9]
She was described as "one of the leading women in venture capital in the Bay Area". [8]
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. [13]