Engage Every Student in your Google Classrooms
Pear Deck makes it easy to plan and build interactive lessons directly from your Google Drive that promote active learning in the classroom. As students interact with the lesson, real-time data provides instructors the feedback they need to adapt teaching on-the-fly.
Pear Deck makes it easy to plan and build interactive lessons directly from your Google Drive that promote active learning in the classroom. As students interact with the lesson, real-time data provides instructors the feedback they need to adapt teaching on-the-fly.
Location: United States, California, Los Angeles
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $4.5M
Founded date: 2014
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Plains Ang... | plainsange... |
| - | Iowa Seed ... | isf2.com |
| - | Growth Str... | growthstre... |
| - | VilCap Inv... | vilcapinve... |
| - | Revolution | revolution... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 22.03.2017 | - | $4M | - |
| 12.12.2014 | Seed | $500K | - |
Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.11.2025 | 8 Tools That Make Teaching More Efficient | Share Share Share Share Email In today’s fast-paced educational environment, efficiency is essential for teachers striving to balance lesson planning, instruction, assessment, and student engagement. Fortunately, technology offers a wide ra... |
| 26.02.2024 | Top 6 Jamboard Alternatives & Competitors for 2024 (Free & Paid) | Best for friendly design: FigJam by Figma Best for enterprise integrations: Miro Best for experimental AI: Lucidspark by Lucid Software Best for free use: Microsoft Whiteboard Best for Zoom meetings: Zoom Whiteboard Best for Apple device us... |
| 12.10.2021 | The Link Between Edtech, Curiosity and Creativity in the Classroom | “Why do wolves howl at the moon?” “How do cars move?” “Why don’t haircuts hurt?”When it comes to engagement, teachers value learning experiences that address the whole child—creatively, cognitively and emotionally. Anyone who has spent more... |
| 13.04.2021 | How A Single Platform Enables Successful Co-Teaching and Engagement in Remote Learning | Over the course of three years working together, Ohio teacher Heather Nesler and her co-teacher perfected a smoothly choreographed approach to co-teaching inclusive eighth-grade math classes. Their strategy—which included using Pear Deck’s ... |
| 12.04.2021 | How Do You Teach in a Pandemic? Focus on Core Values | For many years, I listened regularly to the This I Believe podcast, which showcased people from all walks of life sharing the core values that guide their daily lives. Though it has been off the air for quite some time, I still think back t... |
| 30.03.2021 | This Middle School Engaged Struggling Students and Gave Them a Voice in a Virtual World | Assistant Principal Ronda Smith remembers her heart racing when she learned that John F. Kennedy Middle School would pivot to remote learning because of the pandemic.We had to figure out how to get students engaged online, which was already... |
| 23.03.2017 | Pear Deck Lands $4M Growth Investment | IOWA CITY, IA, Pear Deck has received a $4.0 million growth equity investment. >> Click here for more funding data on Pear Deck >> To export Pear Deck funding data to PDF and Excel, click here Growth Street Partners and e... |
| 22.03.2017 | Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom | A crop of startups has embarked on the laudable task of ridding the classroom of stale PowerPoint slides. One of the latest is Pear Deck, which just closed a $4 million Series A round led by Growth Street Partners. Existing investors, inclu... |
| 22.03.2017 | Pear Deck Raises $4M in Equity Funding | Pear Deck, an Iowa City, Iowa-based provider of a SaaS real-time classroom engagement platform, raised $4m in equity funding. Backers included Growth Street Partners and existing investors Village Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners, and AO... |
| 22.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 22 | SCREAMING DOWN While sifting through the news I missed on my vacation, one deal stuck out to me for not getting much media attention: Visible Measures sold to AcuityAds for $10 million. It’s a tiny deal, but it deserves a second look for tw... |
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