Mar Hershenson

Dr. Hershenson graduated with honors with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain.[1]

She earned M.S. and Ph.D. (2000) from Stanford University.[1][2] Her graduate research involved application of convex optimization to analog circuit design.[2]

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)[2]

From 2002-2011 she was consulting assistant professor in electrical engineering at Stanford.[2] Since 2013 she is Founding Managing Partner at Pear VC[3] (founded as Pejman Mar[4]) 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.[5]

She was described as "one of the leading women in venture capital in the Bay Area".[4]

• 2011: Women of Influence Award by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
• 2010: Marie Pistilli Award[2]
• 2009: Top Ten Women in Microelectronics by EE Times
• 2002: MIT Technology Review’s TR100 Innovators under 35[6]

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.[3][6]

As of 2010 she's had three children.[7]

• Mar Hershenson, the LinkedIn webpage