New York—January 12, 2026—ERA today announced that it has selected its Winter 2026 class. The companies selected to participate in the four-month program are innovating in a variety of significant industries, all with businesses ready to take advantage of ERA’s platform and the broader New York City opportunity.
This is the Accelerator’s 30th program. ERA’s initial investment in participant companies is $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company.
Aerium is the procurement intelligence operating system for industrial companies. We automate procurement workflows and spend analysis to save teams time while identifying and capturing cost savings opportunities. Aerium helps teams be confident they’re paying the right price for all of their SKUs.
Astute Labs is a software company that builds fully autonomous agents for marketing. Our flagship agent, Lumera, manages PR and communications. Starting with consumer brands, we monitor media, identify opportunities, and communicate with media. We enable brands to scale their reputation without hiring large, expensive agencies.
Cascade Geomatics is a terrain-intelligence platform that turns risky mountains and infrastructure corridors into live 3D digital twins. We combine rugged field sensing with analytics to detect change early, forecast avalanche/rockfall/landslide hazards, and deliver actionable alerts, reports, and APIs for DOTs, ski areas, mines, and autonomous operations.
Claer AI is a data-driven consumer intelligence platform for nutrition and supplements. Our agent cross-references millions of ingredients with published scientific research on their impact on your personal health profile. We help consumers cut through marketing noise, avoid harmful interactions, and optimize supplement choices over time.
Closai is the wardrobe intelligence layer for retail. Our proprietary system automatically captures what customers own from thousands of brands. We make it easy for people to connect their closet and enable retail partners to create personalized shopping, styling and agentic commerce experiences.
Discernis is AI-native legal intelligence software for litigation and investigations. We automate review, and cross-document analysis to identify evidence, and strategic insights at scale. Our platform is deployable on-prem or in secure cloud environments, enabling law firms and legal teams to analyze millions of documents efficiently.
Kandir is a sales intelligence marketplace that helps enterprise Account Executives close complex deals faster. The platform crowdsources verified deal insights from experienced sellers and pairs them with AI analysis of buyer behavior, giving teams the information they need to advance deals with confidence.
MadeOnSite is a designer of special-purpose hardware for hotel operations. Our smart dilution machines make liquid room amenities right in the building, which reduces supply chain and labor costs.
M8ven is a trust infrastructure for social and agentic commerce. The platform helps buyers, sellers, and AI agents verify identity, reputation, and intent before transactions occur. M8ven is building foundational trust primitives that make commerce safer as software increasingly acts on behalf of people and businesses.
Orqa is the business development layer for relationship-driven firms. We give customers full coverage of the markets and relationships that matter to them, surfacing actionable, personalized opportunities to drive results. We’re changing how professionals grow and manage their book of business.
Parrot Content is the AI-native operating system for modern marketing teams. We talk like your brand, unifying brainstorming, creation, design, collaboration, scheduling, and performance into one workflow so teams ship on-brand content faster. Parrot Content becomes the system of record for what marketers create, capturing tone, templates, and impact across channels.
Passu is an AI-native operating system for institutional corporate credit research. It automates core analyst workflows, generates citation-grounded analyses, and surfaces relevant insights from across primary sources, enabling analysts to cover more credits more comprehensively and reduce their time to informed investment decisions.
philter is an AI-native workflow and portfolio intelligence platform for private market LPs, saving hundreds of analyst hours and unlocking hidden insights in GP reporting. We turn fragmented documents into actionable intelligence by automating manual data extraction and uncovering cross-fund exposure. We unlock investment guidance and portfolio clarity across every fund, manager, and asset.
Quantuma is the GTM platform for B2B financial services. Our deep reasoning agents synthesize messy financial data, such as liens, property records, ownership changes, and personnel trends into clear signals. We give sales teams new visibility to discover and grow commercial relationships.
(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in 400+ start-ups since launching in 2011. Its alumni companies, who come from all over the world, are already playing leading roles in the evolution of virtually every major global industry. Notable investments include Glia, TripleLift, Rilla, Thirty Madison, Nayya, Order, Hyro, ModernFi, Bespoke Post, CardFlight, and Scentbird. To date, ERA alumni companies have raised more than $2 billion in investor capital and collectively exceed $10 billion in market capitalization.