Mar Hershenson is a Spanish-American venture capitalist, electrical engineer, professor, and business executive in the electronic design automation industry.

[4] Her graduate research involved application of convex optimization to analog circuit design.

Later she was CEO and a co-founder of Sabio Labs (2004-2007), which was acquired by Magma Design Automation, and eventually, Mar Hershenson became Vice President of Product Development in the Custom Design Business Unit at Magma (2008-2010).

[7] Since 2013, she has been a founding managing partner at Pear VC (founded as Pejman Mar)[8] and represents Pear on the Board of Directors of Solvvy, a startup developer of a customer support platform designed to answer incoming customer questions basing on machine learning.

[8] She came to the United States from Barcelona, Spain for a summer job and met her future husband.