Pejman Nozad is the Founding Managing Partner of Pear VC, a $800M+ AUM seed-stage venture firm he co-founded in 2013. Born in Tehran, he arrived in Silicon Valley in 1992 with $700 and no English, worked as a car washer, lived in a yogurt shop attic, then became the top Persian rug salesman on University Avenue in Palo Alto — selling $8M in a single year to the Valley's most powerful VCs and founders. Those relationships became deal flow. He backed Dropbox, DoorDash ($1.9M seed → $440M), AppLovin, and Andy Rubin's pre-Android company Danger. Forbes ranked him #1 on its Midas Seed List three consecutive years (2023, 2024, 2025). He has no CS degree, no MBA, and never worked in tech — yet built one of the highest-performing seed funds ever and joined the board of Sheffield United FC in 2025.
Ullas Naik is the Founder and General Partner of Streamlined Ventures, a Palo Alto-based seed fund with $325M+ AUM across 8 funds and 200+ portfolio companies. A Mumbai-born immigrant who cold-called his way onto Wall Street 40 days straight, he went on to back AppLovin and DoorDash at seed stage before either company had a name anyone recognized - a combined market cap now exceeding $170B. With 21 unicorns and 3 decacorns in his portfolio, he operates as a solo GP with a reputation for being a 'founder whisperer' who brings candor, empathy, and conviction to early-stage investing.