Mentoring with Mar Hershenson, Managing Partner

fnMentoring functions accelerate your startup and expand your high-tech network through mentoring sessions with founders and featured guest experts. Functions are free to members but require your RSVP. If you are not a member you can apply here. Next week’s featured guest will be:

 Name: Mar Hershenson

Mar Hershenson, Managing Partner at Pejman Mar Management LLC

Background: Mar Hershenson conducts due diligence for seed stage deals and sources and incubates start-up businesses. She also advises and mentors entrepreneurs on strategy, financial modeling, competitive analysis and product definition. Mar brings operational and technical expertise to the investment team. She has over 13 years of founder experience, having co-founded three start-ups in the mobile, e-commerce, enterprise software and semiconductor industries. She holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University with a combined hardware/software focus.

Company: Pejman Mar Ventures is an early-stage fund that invests in exceptional founders building amazing companies. They consider themselves “angels with a large fund” and have found a new way to be seed investors. The founding partners take no salary, and all of their resources (personnel, network, space) are devoted to helping their companies achieve their goals. Their mission is to help our founders build companies. Previous investments include Dropbox, Zoosk, Addepar, and ZenPayroll.