Vivien is a Partner at Pear VC, where she leads the healthcare practice and invests in startups at pre-seed and seed stage. She also hosts the Pear Healthcare Playbook Podcast, featuring successful founders on discussing how they built a digital health business from 0 to 1 and beyond. She is passionate about backing and supporting mission-driven founders who hope to improve the world we live in with technology. She also founded the Pear Female Founders Circle, supporting the next generation of female technical founders and runs a 10 week program twice a year, with over 150 founders in the community.
Previously, she worked on executive business strategy, new products and product growth for Airbnb Homes and Transportation, and was a consultant at BCG, focused on defining innovation and growth strategies for payers, providers and pharma.
Vivien grew up in an immigrant family, originally from Taiwan. She then moved to Hong Kong, Shanghai and then pursued engineering after falling in love with robotics and physics. She earned an MBA in Healthcare Management and Entrepreneurship at The Wharton School and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering at Northwestern University.
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