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We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. We partner with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies.
Menlo Park, CA
Joined April 2014
We are thrilled to announce that we closed our fourth seed fund at $432M. Read all about it from @Katie_Roof at @business:
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We're proud to announce our newly promoted Partners: @VivHo, @keith__bender, and @addisonleong!🍐🥳 We wouldn't be where we are without these three. Please read more about all they've accomplished today on our blog!
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📣Introducing PearX: an early-stage bootcamp for founders. 🧑💻15 companies max.⌛14 weeks long.💲Up to $2M check sizes.🍐The way we do pre-seed. Founders or those looking to make the leap to entrepreneurship, learn more here ➡️
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We're so proud to see @pejmannozad #1 on the #MidasSeed List today. What a journey: from sleeping in an attic above a yogurt shop to selling Persian rugs in Silicon Valley to seeding some of the most iconic companies like @DoorDash, @GustoHQ, and @Dropbox.
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We're excited to see our Founding Partners @pejmannozad and @MarHershenson on the #ForbesMidas List, which recognizes the top 100 investors worldwide. The thing we're the most proud of is the true partnership between Pejman, Mar & the entire Pear team.
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We're excited to see our Founding Partners and fearless leaders @pejmannozad and @marhershenson named to the @Forbes Midas List of the Top 100 tech investors worldwide. Pejman (#15) and Mar (#30) both appear on the list for the second year in a row. @alexrkonrad
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Today is a big day! We are celebrating 🔟 great years of Pear. To all of our founders, partners, LPs, and friends: thank you for making the last decade so special. We can't wait for the next 10! 🍐🥳
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Congratulations to our partners @PejmanNozad and @MarHershenson for making the @Forbes 2021 #MidasList. A huge thank you to our founders, LPs, and Pear team for their dedication and hard work - this is possible because of all of you! Cc @alexrkonrad.
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Today marks Pear's 9 Year Anniversary! 🍐. We are so proud of our team of now 20 and how much Pear has grown to support category-defining entrepreneurs ✨ and invest on behalf of foundations, universities, firefighters, pensions and more! 💚
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Excited to continue our support for @PahdoLabs!.
We have raised $15M in Series A financing from @Tocelot at @a16z, @pearvc, @BoxGroup, @neo, @Global_Founders, @LongJourneyVC, and more. In our blog post, we share how we got here, what our product will be, and the plan for our Pre-Alpha I playtest.
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We're excited to see @pejmannozad and @MarHershenson on the 2024 @Forbes Midas List! . The list recognizes the 100 investors with top returns, but the thing we're always the most proud of is the amazing partnership between our team and our founders. 🍐.
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1/ We judge ourselves on the experience we provide to founders—so we thought we’d let Pear Accelerator founders speak for themselves about what makes Pear Accelerator special. Learn more and apply now:
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Pear is teaming up with @developer_dao (🧱, 🚀, 🍐) to host a Happy Hour 🍻 for web3 SF community on April 12 5:30 PM! . Inviting web3 builders, operators and folks who are interested in taking the leap to web3! . Register here: ⚡️ ⚡️.
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This week our team got a little sneak peek of the new Pear Studio space in SF. 👀 It's 30,000 square feet and will have 200+ desks for founders, 20+ conference & call rooms, and a dedicated events space for fireside chats and programming. We can't wait. stay tuned for more!
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We're so proud of @pejmannozad for earning the top spot on the @Forbes Midas Seed List for the second year in a row. This list recognizes the top 25 seed investors globally. You can see the full list here:.
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We are so proud of @PejmanNozad for making the @Forbes 2021 #MidasList. His unfailing determination, ambition, and belief in Pear’s mission inspires our team daily. We couldn’t be more excited to see his hard work recognized by @Forbes. Cc @alexrkonrad .
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ICYMI we're opening Pear Studio SF: a huge new space for founders to work, collaborate, learn, and grow. @pejmannozad talked all about it on @BloombergTV this morning. 🍐 We can't wait to welcome founders to Pear Studio very soon.
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1/ Introducing. the PEAR WINTER ACCELERATOR 2022! 🍐. For the first time ever, we'll be offering up to ten teams $500k on a $10M cap. 💸
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1> We are excited to announce applications have opened for our second ✨ Pear Female Founder Circles ✨ Spring 2022 cohort, a three-month curated intimate community for female and non-binary engineer entrepreneurs. 👩💻. Apply by Feb 20 (rolling apps).
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We are delighted to announce our third fund of $160M. Thank you to our founders and community for partnering with us over the past 6 years! We remain committed to supporting founders through the 0 to 1 journey. 🍐🚀.
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We are so proud of @MarHershenson for making the #MidasList. Mar is a true trailblazer and her passion, dedication, and drive to support our founders through thick and thin is part of Pear’s DNA. We are thrilled to see her hard work recognized. @Forbes.
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We're so proud that @MarHershenson is the 2nd highest ranked woman on this year's #ForbesMidas List. We're also immensely proud that our team is 50% female and 41%+ (and growing) of our portfolio companies have at least one female founder.
11 women featured on today's 2023 @Forbes Midas List:. 1) @LucianaLix (@Sequoia).2) @MarHershenson (@pearvc).3) Anna Fang (@ZhenFund).4) Nisa Leung (@QimingVC).5) @jennyleehw (@GGVCapital).6) @kirstenagreen (@ForerunnerVC). Continued. .
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We're thrilled to share that, after spending the last year as a Visiting Partner with us, @Arpan_Shah_ has officially joined Pear as a Partner. Read more about Arpan on our blog today!
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Yesterday, we hosted an in-person Demo Day at Filoli Gardens and 13 companies pitched to a packed room. We were thrilled to be back in person after so long with this impressive cohort of founders. We'll be sharing these pitches out virtually early next week, so stay tuned! 🍐✨
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We are honored that our Managing Partner @MarHershenson was featured as one of 12 top women venture capitalists to watch in 2021!✨.
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Congratulations to @pejmannozad for being recognized as #2 on the Midas Seed list! From sleeping in an attic to selling Persian carpets to founding Pear VC, he certainly has taken an unusual path to becoming a VC. @alexrkonrad @forbestech @Forbes .
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5 teams, $250-500k Investment. Join Pear Summer & become part of the Pear Portfolio. Apply here by 5/18:
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Thank you to everyone for the kind words on our Fund IV announcement this week. Today on the blog, @MarHershenson takes a moment to look back on the last 10 years of Pear and share why we're excited for the decade ahead.🍐
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We're so excited to launch our Pear Female Founder Circles this Wednesday! 👩💻. We have an amazing diverse and brilliant cohort of pre-seed female technical founders across Consumer, Healthcare, ML/Data, Fintech, DeFi/Crypto and Enterprise SaaS. 🙌
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Kicking off the 2021 strong! Please join us in welcoming former Director of Engineering at Facebook and Uber, Pedram Keyani, to the Pear community as our newest Visiting Partner.
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Last week, we hosted our first ever Persian Tech Food Truck Party! We enjoyed delicious Persian food and ice cream. It was a beautiful evening celebrating the successes of our Persian tech community! Thank you to everyone who attended and made it so special.
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Gm builders and frens ☀️ we have some news . 1⃣ Win one of many $100k uncapped SAFE/SAFTs to buidl 🤝. 2⃣ Pitch @ljin18 gp @variantfund, @xanderatallah CTO @opensea and @ai live for friendly feedback. 3⃣ We are sharing our 7 web3 investments so far. Here’s more 🧵.
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1/ We are proud to share our @Forbes feature on our Tiny Startup Accelerator and our secret sauce which includes Pear’s “high touch” approach to working with our founders. Thank you for attending our demo day and sharing our story. @kenrickcai 🍐.
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🚀 Exciting News! Introducing the Pear Persian Founders Circle – an intimate community of Iranian engineers, academics, and entrepreneurs. 📅 Inaugural cohort begins in January 2024. 🔗 Learn More:
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Black Lives Matter. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and countless other Black lives mattered. Silence is complicity, and the Pear team stands in unequivocal solidarity with Black Americans in their call for justice and equality. #BlackLivesMatter.
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One of the best things about the Pear Accelerator is the small, high touch nature of our program. This morning, our current cohort was fortunate to learn from @msuster, 2x proven entrepreneur and @upfrontvc General Partner. Here are a few things we learned from Mark: 1/5
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Our Managing Partner @pejmannozad showing one of his many talents at @upfrontvc summit with @msuster!. ⚽️⚽️⚽️
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The countdown begins. ⏳. Our Pear S21 🍐 Accelerator Demo Day is in 20 days on October 13, 2021. We're so excited to unveil our accelerator teams! 👀✨
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1> gm ☕️ Pear is doubling down on web3! We’ve been honored to partner with the following web 3 trailblazers . 🌅 @SZNSNFT.🔥 @Bonfire_tweets.☄️ @joinBurst.🍄 @FormFunction.🦸 @SuperDAO_co.⛵ @PaySail.🕵️♂️ #Stealth. 🧵.
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The early people you hire DEFINE your culture. Here is what we learned from @stanleytang, co-founder of @DoorDash today . ⛹️ Hire athletes who can wear many hats.📈 Hire for high potential vs a lot of experience.🤹♂️ Hire generalists vs specialists.⚡️ Hire fast, hungry learners.
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1> We're excited to announce our third Pear Female Founder Circles for Fall 22 💜 . Apply Nominate We are creating an intimate community of female engineers, guided by successful female founders & leaders 👇
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We are thrilled to announce the Pear Fellows of 2021! These fellows are already imbuing our team with energy and fresh ideas. If you're a student working on a startup, reach out to a Fellow and apply to Pear Competition!.
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PearX W24 apps are open for a bit longer. We kick off every cohort with Camp Pear: our in-person founder retreat. That's followed by 14 weeks of company building. And finally Demo Day to pitch your startup to thousands of investors. Apply today at
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Today is the last day to apply to Pear's Female Technical Founder Circle. >50% of our Pear Female Founder raise pre-seed and seed funding from top investors like @a16z, @sequoia, @paradigm, @kleinerperkins, @dragonfly_xyz, @eladgil, @pearvc. Here are some of our rockstar alum 👩🎤
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Pear Garage is open—searching for the top 25 entrepreneurial engineering students in the country!
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We loved having @saranormous and @MarHershenson share their investor perspectives with aspiring female entrepreneurs. 💚 . We hope we can help demystify fundraising for our Female Founder Circle and the broader founder community on what investors look for at Seed and Series A!
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Last week, @WindBorneWx announced a $6M round from @footworkvc, @khoslaventures & Pear. Our history with WindBorne dates way back to 2019, when they visited @MarHershenson at Stanford with a balloon in tow. Read all about their journey on our blog! 🎈🫶🍐
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We started our Female Founder Circles in 2021. Why? Because while being a founder is always hard, being a female founder brings its own set of challenges. We’re excited to launch The Retreat by FFC: a 2-day retreat in Palm Springs Feb 29-Mar 1, 2024:
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Join us tomorrow, April 27th @ 12PM PST for a discussion with Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-founder of Databricks responsible for the growth and international expansion of the company. RSVP:
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Demo Day is coming up again— we're bringing back Humans of Pear, starting with @HelenaMerk from @SpiralsProtocol 🌀. 1/ "I’ve been programming since I was 12. Going to college was a deliberate choice to break out of software and combine my interests in biology and conservation."
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Happy International Women's Day to all of our amazing Founders, LPs, Investors, Advisors and Mentors! ✨. You make Pear 🍐 the best we can be!.
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3 big mistakes startups make when hiring engineers:. 1) Not prioritizing hires. 2) Ignoring hustle, energy, and optimism. 3) Not understanding the hiring funnel. Our newest Visiting Partner, @pedramkeyani shares insights from his time at Facebook and Uber:
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We're thrilled to officially unveil our Pear Healthcare and Biotech Industry Advisory Councils! Our Biotech Partner, @eddie_eltoukhy & Healthcare Partner, @VivHo have been hard at work crafting a dream team of leading founder/CEOs, operators & academics!.
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Pear's first ever ClubHouse chat on MarketPlaces is happening this Wednesday, April 14th @ 5PM PDT 🚀 @ai and @sarahtavel will be talking with @nickhuzar, CEO and founder of @offerup. You don’t want to miss it!
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Want to make sure your company survives this downturn?. 6 actionable tips on extending your runway from @MarHershenson 🧵⬇️.
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When COVID-19 struck, these founders convened at the Stanford COVID-19 Response Innovation Lab. The result was @access_bell - a video conferencing platform designed for the times. Learn more and connect at You may even get a demo from AccessBand 😉
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Congratulations to our portfolio company, @aurorasolarinc, @chhopper, and @solarsamrise on their $250M Series C round, a fivefold increase since November and a current $2B valuation. They are just getting started!.
Solar design startup Aurora reached unicorn status after a $250 million funding round
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The absolute best surprise on a Monday: a cake from @TheFairStreet team to thank our Talent team @birnbing and Nate Hirsch for hiring their founding designer. 🍐🍰
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We're excited to sponsor the GPT-4 Hackathon at Shack15 this Sat 3/25. 120 of SF's best hackers will compete for $20k in cash prizes. There are a few more days to throw your hat in the ring. See you there @cerebral_valley @AviSchiffmann. Learn more:
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We had such a great time chatting with @stanleytang about the @DoorDash founding story at #LATechWeek. The founders in LA are amazing. 🌴🍐
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We kicked off our second ever cohort of Female Founders Circles yesterday 💖. We're thrilled to welcome 35 brilliant female technical founders and even more excited about the next three months! . We're thankful to be sponsored by @SVB_Financial, @WilmerHale and @PilotHQ. 🙏
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Deeply humbled to be named to this list. We are most of all grateful to our exceptional founders, for the opportunity to be a part of your bold visions and heroic journeys!.
Data from The TechCrunch List shows the 11 VCs who founders love the most by @dannycrichton.
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We recently welcomed @kaitlin_shavey to the Pear team as our Event Marketing Manager to lead all of our in-person and virtual events and experiences. We're thrilled to have her. Read more about Kaitlin on our blog:
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Incredibly proud of our founders who presented at Pear Demo Day 2018! 10 Pre-Seed/Seed stage teams from our Pear Summer program presented, as well as 5 portfolio companies that are currently raising Series A rounds. See full @TechCrunch coverage here:
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We recently welcomed @joandthezhus to the Pear team to lead all things PearX. PearX is our early stage bootcamp for founders. In the 14-week program, we partner with founders from their earliest days and help them go from 0 to 1.
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We're looking for the next generation of womxn engineer entrepreneurs. ✨👩💻🌟. Apply to Pear's Female Founder Circles and gain valuable perspectives from incredible VC partners @mercebent @lightspeedvp, @deenashakir @Lux_Capital and @marhershenson @pearvc!
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We're so excited to share @MarHershenson's talk "The secret to successfully pitching an idea" on @TEDTalks The Way We Work series. Check it out!
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Big news! Our #PearS22 Accelerator kicks off in July & we only have a few spots left in our cohort. If you have a great idea, we're inviting 5 companies to pitch directly to @pejmannozad & @MarHershenson on June 30th. No idea is too early. Learn more here:.
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Check out @pejmannozad's talk at YCombinator's Investor Startup School, where he covered everything from his journey into tech, mistakes that made him a better investor, & the types of founders Pear looks to partner with.
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Pear Accelerator🍐S21 Demo Day @TechCrunch. What a week for Pear!. Thanks @Cookie for the feature! .
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1> 51M young adults in the US lack basic financial literacy, @PartheanHQ is here to change these lives with actionable and digestible financial content. @ArmanHezarkhani, @jayyzhu and @letsgowithnick are determined to make a positive impact on everyone’s personal finances 💚💵.
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2⃣ Web3 Pitch Night . No deck and no idea is too early. Your shot to get live friendly feedback from @ljin18 (GP @variantfund), @xanderatallah (CTO @opensea) and @ai (@pearvc) . Or sign up to watch 🍿.
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We're excited to share than @sean_t_strong has joined Pear as our new Head of Builders! 👷🍐He'll be working with our student and post grad founders at the beginnings of their bright careers. Read more about Sean's background and focus on our blog!
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1/ Time for another founder feature… meet @MelissaZhang13 from Bonfire! 🔥. "From selling custom-made bracelets in middle school to spearheading the Duke Blockchain Lab, I’ve always loved creating and building."
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We are so excited to announce Pear S21 Accelerator company, @valarlabs raise a $4M round led by @a16z! .Congrats to @anirrjoshi, @VisweshKrishna, @dvrabac & @pranavrajpurkar!. We're thrilled to work with @vintweeta & @jayrughani and reimagine cancer treatment decisions with AI 🩺
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We love @rahulvohra's framework for product market fit—but what if you're a step before @Superhuman status and don't have enough users to measure for 40% yet? . Here's what we tell our Accelerator companies:
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Hi buidlers, Pear VC is offering $100K uncapped SAFE/SAFT to launch your web3 / crypto startup. Apply by Thursday, Feb 10! . No idea is too early. No need to be incorporated or deployed to mainnet to apply.
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We are proud to partner early with mission-driven founding teams like @tomerlondon, @joshuareeves and @edawerd! . Read about the incredible story of how @GustoHQ supported small businesses at the height of COVID. @Forbes
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Don't miss this discussion on the future of online learning, happening this Thursday at 5pm PDT!
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