Shravan Reddy is a General 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.
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Companies Shravan has been lucky to back, most at pre-seed. The corner of each tile shows how far each one has come.
- Piston Fleet payments Series A Cardless fuel payments for fleets, with control over every gallon.$15M Series A led by FPV Ventures, 2026
- Andera Audit automation Series A AI that automates SOX controls testing, so audits take less time and cost less.$37M Series A led by Lightspeed, 2026
- Nuvo B2B credit Series A An AI order-to-cash network for B2B sellers, from onboarding and credit to collections.$34M Series A from Sequoia and Spark Capital, 2025
- Crossmint Stablecoin infrastructure Series A All-in-one stablecoin infrastructure for companies and AI agents, including wallets and onramps.$23.6M led by Ribbit Capital, 2025
- Pravāh Energy AI Seed AI agents and machine learning for power systems.$7.5M from Khosla Ventures, Conviction, and MCJ Collective
- Nomadic Physical AI data Seed Turns video, lidar, and radar from robots and vehicles into data that physical AI can learn from.$8.4M seed led by TQ Ventures, 2026
- GuardOwl Security ops Seed An all-in-one platform for physical security teams.$3M led by Tower Research Ventures, 2026
- Optexity Workflow automation Seed Browser agents that connect to any web portal, even one without an API.Raised $4M
- Baton Software implementation Seed An AI implementation engine that sets up demos, pilots, and live instances of complex software.Seed backed by Lobby Capital
- Lore AI session sharing Seed A studio of digital products, from an agent workbench to session sharing for Claude Code.
- BridgeHealthAI Medicaid enrollment Seed Helps community health centers keep their patients covered by Medicaid and protect their revenue.Seed backed by Flare Capital
- Elo AI chat ads Seed An ad network for AI chat apps.Seed backed by Audacious Ventures
- Camber Data science agents Seed AI agents for data science teams that keep working around the clock.$4M seed led by Base10 Partners, 2025
- Meridian Operations AI Seed Frontier AI for operations in staffing, logistics, manufacturing, and industrial services.Seed backed by Sunflower Capital, SV Angel, and angels from Anthropic
- Perseus Secure AI for finance Seed Secure AI infrastructure built for financial institutions and their teams.Seed backed by Felicis, Jump Trading, and Consonant
- TrueMeter Utility savings Seed AI that manages utility bills for multi-location businesses. It audits them, gets lower rates, and pays them.$4M seed led by Ulu Ventures, 2025
- Truth Systems AI governance Seed A governance layer that applies a law firm's policies, client rules, and ethical walls to AI tools before they act.$4M seed led by Gradient, 2025
- Polynomic AI ad agency Seed A full-service AI ad agency for e-commerce brands that earns a share of the extra revenue it brings in.Seed backed by Penny Jar Capital
- Triangle Analytics Behavioral prediction Seed Predicts how individual people will respond, for decisions where being wrong is not an option.
- Blueberry AI marketing Seed AI agents that turn social interactions into revenue, email signups, and customer loyalty for B2C brands.
- Vallo Agent infrastructure Pre-seed Infrastructure for background agent systems, now in private beta.
- Sparse Labs Robot vision Pre-seed The layer between a robot's cameras and its model that keeps only what the task needs.
- Infi Robotics Robotic manufacturing Pre-seed A robotics-native contract manufacturer that takes hardware from prototype to production.
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Coverage of Shravan’s work at Pear and of the companies and products he helped build. Open a book to read a short summary and see each story as it was first published.
The Wall Street Journal · October 14, 2026
Pear VC’s Latest Fund Is Smaller and Will Invest Faster
WSJ on Pear VC’s smaller, faster fifth fund. The same story reports Shravan’s promotion from partner to general partner.
Reprinted with permission of The Wall Street Journal. Copyright © 2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.
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WSJ on Pear VC’s smaller, faster fifth fund. The same story reports Shravan’s promotion from partner to general partner.
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In the same story, WSJ reported that Pear had “promoted Arash Afrakhteh, Ajay Kamat and Shravan Reddy, from partner to general partner.”
At Pear, Shravan invests at pre-seed in AI, B2B software and fintech companies.
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Stratechery · December 3, 2020
Stripe: Platform of Platforms
Ben Thompson's analysis of the day Stripe Treasury launched, and why it made Stripe a platform for other platforms.
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When Stripe Treasury launched, Ben Thompson saw more than a new product. Big banks like Goldman Sachs cannot serve millions of small businesses one at a time, and a new business cannot easily open an account with them.
Treasury puts one API between the two, so any software platform can offer its users a bank account. Thompson compares it to an operating system that lets any app run on any computer. With Shopify Balance built on Treasury, he concludes that Stripe is not just a platform. It is a platform of platforms.
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Shravan was an engineering leader at Stripe, where he helped grow Treasury from an idea to hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits.
The essay explains why that work mattered: one integration that connects partner banks to every platform built on Stripe.
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TechCrunch · December 3, 2020
Stripe announces embedded business banking service Stripe Treasury
TechCrunch's launch-day report on Stripe Treasury, an API that lets software platforms give their customers bank accounts.
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Stripe Treasury launched as an invite-only banking-as-a-service API. Platforms on Stripe could now open bank accounts for their own customers, move money and pay bills with API calls, and link those accounts to cards from Stripe Issuing.
Stripe did not become a bank to do it. It worked with Evolve Bank & Trust and Goldman Sachs in the US, with Citibank and Barclays lined up for other countries. Shopify was the headline example: its Balance accounts ran on Treasury.
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Shravan helped grow Stripe Treasury from an idea to hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits.
He also led Stripe’s Issuing integrations across multiple partner banks. Issuing is how platforms attached cards to those new accounts.
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TechCrunch · May 20, 2020
Shopify announces a new merchant debit card and support for payment installment plans
Shopify introduces Balance, a free business account and debit card for its merchants, at its Reunite event.
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At Reunite, a virtual event for its million merchants, Shopify announced Balance: a business account with no fees and no minimum balance, and a physical or virtual debit card.
At first the account would hold only money earned through Shopify, but merchants could track cash flow and pay bills from it. Shopify also added interest-free payment in four installments. It said only that a financial partner was behind Balance. In December, that partner turned out to be Stripe.
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Behind the scenes, Balance ran on Stripe Treasury, the banking platform Shravan helped build at Stripe.
Merchants saw a Shopify product. Underneath it were Treasury’s accounts, money movement and partner banks.
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The Verge · June 11, 2019
Dropbox is getting a massive overhaul, wants to be the center of your workflow
The Verge previews the new Dropbox, a desktop app meant to turn a sync folder into a workspace for teams.
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For most of its life, Dropbox was a folder that synced to the cloud. In June 2019 it previewed a larger idea: one desktop app where teams could work without jumping between browser tabs.
From inside the new Dropbox, people could edit Google and Microsoft documents, start Slack conversations and Zoom calls, and manage Atlassian projects. It added to-do lists, task assignments, comments, a feed of team activity, and one search bar for everything.
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After Dropbox acquired Pixelapse, Shravan led teams that built collaboration products at Dropbox.
Those products included the new Dropbox, file history and image previews.
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VentureBeat · January 26, 2015
Dropbox acquires Pixelapse, a version-control and collaboration tool for designers
VentureBeat reports on Dropbox's acquisition of Pixelapse, the version-control tool for designers that Shravan co-founded.
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Dropbox bought Pixelapse to strengthen its tools for creative teams. Pixelapse gave designers what GitHub gave developers: version history and a shared place to work on files in progress.
It already synced with Dropbox and supported more than 50 file formats, from Photoshop to HTML. VentureBeat read the deal as a sign that Dropbox wanted people to keep their favorite tools and store the work in Dropbox. Pixelapse would run for another year while its team brought the same workflows into Dropbox.
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Shravan co-founded Pixelapse with Min Ming Lo in 2011 and served as its CEO.
He grew the company to profitability and tens of thousands of designers before the acquisition, then led collaboration teams at Dropbox.
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TechCrunch · February 13, 2013
YC-Backed Pixelapse Brings GitHub-Style Sharing & Version Control To Your Design Projects
An early look at Pixelapse, the startup Shravan co-founded to bring GitHub-style version control to designers.
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Developers could track every change with GitHub, but designers had no good way to manage their versions. Pixelapse set out to fix that.
Its app watched a folder and backed up each change, so designers could browse a visual timeline of every file and download any earlier version. Teams could comment on work in progress and mark it up. By then, Pixelapse hosted more than half a million image revisions for thousands of users.
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Shravan co-founded Pixelapse with Min Ming Lo and led it as CEO. The company went through StartX at Stanford and Y Combinator.
In this article, he describes the public gallery:
“When shared to the public, those revisions show the growth of a piece.”
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