Shravan Reddy is a Partner at Pear VC, where he invests in early-stage AI, B2B software, and fintech companies.
Before Pear, he was an Engineering Leader at Stripe. He helped grow Stripe Treasury from idea to hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits, and led Issuing integrations across multiple partner banks.
Earlier, he co-founded and served as CEO of Pixelapse, a design collaboration company. He grew the business to profitability and tens of thousands of designers, and the company was later acquired by Dropbox. Post-acquisition, he led teams building collaboration products including the "new Dropbox", file history, and image previews.
Shravan grew up between the Bay Area and Hyderabad. He completed his BS in CS and Economics and Master’s in Management Science & Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford, graduating Tau Beta Pi at age 20. He holds multiple patents.
Essays
Portfolio
Current pre-seed investments Shravan is working with. The stage shown for each reflects its status today.
- Piston Fleet payments Series A
- Andera Audit automation Series A
- Nuvo B2B credit Series A
- PravÄh Energy AI Seed
- NomadicML Video AI Seed
- GuardOwl Security ops Seed
- Optexity Workflow automation Seed
- Baton Product demos Seed
- Lore AI session sharing Seed
- BridgeHealth Health equity Seed
- Elo AI chat ads Seed
- Camber Scientific computing Seed
- Meridian Supply chain AI Seed
- Perseus AI privacy Seed
- Shiplight QA testing Pre-seed
- Vallo Agent infrastructure Pre-seed
Press
- 2020 Stripe: Platform of Platforms — Stratechery
- 2020 Stripe announces Stripe Treasury — TechCrunch
- 2020 Shopify announces Shopify Balance — TechCrunch
- 2019 Dropbox is getting a massive overhaul — The Verge
- 2015 Dropbox acquires Pixelapse — VentureBeat
- 2013 YC-backed Pixelapse brings version control to design — TechCrunch