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.

Education and work Hershenson graduated with honors with a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain.

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

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).

Since 2013, she has been a founding managing partner at Pear VC (founded as Pejman Mar)

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

Awards and recognition 2011: Women of Influence Award by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 2010: Marie Pistilli Award 2009: Top Ten Women in Microelectronics by EE Times 2002: MIT Technology Review’s TR100 Innovators under 35

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.

she has three children.