Partner intelligence
Ryan Sells
Partner · Pear VC · San Francisco
Ryan Sells is a Partner at Pear VC, a specialist pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm with approximately $800 million in assets under management that has seeded companies worth over $300 billion, including…
The research behind this profile
6public sources read
- 6Interviews
- 1Official pages
How a memo for Ryan is made
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Investor profile
Partner intelligence built from Ryan's talks, podcasts, writing and portfolio.
- What they look for in founders
- How they make decisions
- Communication style
- Thesis and red flags
- Portfolio patterns
- 02
Core memo
Your company's investment memo. The facts stay the same in every version.
- 03
Personal memo
Rewritten for Ryan Sells at Pear VC, in their own frame.
- Their language and frameworks
- The founder story they care about
- Objections answered first
- Fit with their portfolio
What Ryan looks for in a founder
In Ryan's own words
How Ryan sounds
Tone
Pragmatic, conviction-driven, direct, operator-centric.
Signature phrases
- “Earned secret”
- “Hard-won insight”
- “First principles”
- “Category-defining”
- “AI-Native Services (AINS)”
- “Agentic foundation”
- “Bolting AI”
- “Incumbent workflows”
Sentence style
Frameworks and metaphors
Investment thesis, in Ryan's terms
How Ryan decides and communicates
Portfolio pattern
Recent activity and public voice
Career and current role
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