We’re Hiring: Part-Time Operations Associate at ERA

Part-Time Operations Associate (In-Person) at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) in New York, NY

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:45 AM–1:00 PM ET

Why this role matters

ERA is New York City’s longest-running accelerator and one of its most active early-stage funds. Since 2011, we’ve invested in 375+ startups that have raised $2B+ and are reshaping industries from fintech to healthtech (eranyc.com). As our Part-Time Operations Associate, you’ll help run the day-to-day engine that powers our founders, programs, and events, while building relationships with founders, investors, and the ERA mentor network.

What you’ll do

What you’ll gain

You are

Bonus points for experience in operations, hospitality, events, or a startup/accelerator setting.

Must-haves

Compensation

$20–$25/hour, depending on experience.

How to apply

Email [email protected] with:

  1. Your resume
  2. Your LinkedIn profile
  3. 3–5 sentences describing an event you have worked on and explain your specific role in ensuring its success.

Hiring for: Platform Associate

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)
Location: New York City (in-person)

Help power the engine behind NYC’s most active startup tech accelerator. ERA is an early-stage venture fund and technology accelerator (eranyc.com). Since 2011, we’ve invested in 375+ companies  in nearly every major industry with the support of  1,000+ mentors and alumni. We’re looking for an exceptional Platform Associate to make our programs run flawlessly and help founders unlock the full value of the ERA platform. 

Why this role matters

You’ll help founders achieve their primary goal: how to build their companies faster. You’ll help design great founder experiences, orchestrate mentors and programming, and connect portfolio teams to the resources that change their trajectory. If you love a fast-paced environment, high ownership, and daily contact with founders and investors, this is it.

What you’ll own (outcomes > tasks)

You are

Tools you’ll likely touch

Google Workspace, Airtable, Notion, Zapier, Slack, Zoom, Canva, simple CRMs (e.g., HubSpot), and event platforms like luma. 

What we offer

Work setup

This is an in-person role based in New York, NY.

How to apply

Email [email protected] with:

  1. Resume
  2. LinkedIn
  3. Any other relevant links (website, portfolio)
  4. A short paragraph on why you’re the best person for this job
  5. (Optional but encouraged) 3–5 bullet “wins” that show how you improved a program or process

Portfolio Awards and Honors 2025

We could not be more excited to share that our portfolio has received honors and awards across multiple platforms. We are proud to have written the first checks to each of these tremendous startups.

The Honorees

FORTUNE Best Places to Work 2025 (Technology)

FORTUNE Best Places to Work 2025 (Retail)

Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2025

Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2025

AI Fintech 100 2025

Proptech Breakthrough Awards 2025

Top 25 Digital Health Executives 2025

CEO Viewpoint’s Top Fastest Growing Companies to Watch 2025

Six portfolio companies named to the Inc. 5000 2025

Congrats to these six portfolio companies on being named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America for 2025

NYC’s (ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Announces Participants For Its Summer 2025 Program; Companies Receive $150,000 Investments On a Post-Money SAFE

NYC’s (ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Announces Participants For Its Summer 2025 Program; Companies Receive $150,000 Investments On a Post-Money SAFE

New York—June 23, 2025—ERA today announced that it has selected its Summer 2025 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 29th program. ERA’s initial investment in participant companies is $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company.

Aqxle AI is a platform of AI agents that automates legacy agency workflows for marketers bringing media in-house. Our agents are already driving revenue and lowering costs by reducing time to action for Unilever, Lenovo, and iHeart. Automating workflows is our wedge to becoming the decision engine for all in-house media.

Arvo  is the first compliant AI meeting assistant for investment banking and private equity. Despite 40+ hours of weekly calls, bankers and investors are completely banned from using any existing AI note-taking tools for compliance reasons. With note-taking as the high-demand wedge, Arvo will become the AI operating system for finance.

Cosmos AI is a platform that automates consumer debt collection. Our AI agent works like a superhuman collections agent—recovering more debt, faster, and at a fraction of the cost. Our AI operates 24/7 and manages the entire collections process from early to late stage accounts, engaging customers through human-sounding calls, texts, and emails.

Dyle is the first agentic AI account manager designed to unify data from product analytics and CRMs, creating revenue signals on customer needs never before possible – and delivering actions directly into existing workflows to drive expansion and retention revenue.

Finsi is an AI-powered retention platform for subscription and DTC brands. Our AI engine links customer behavior to lost revenue and routes actionable signals to the teams who can act. By sharpening a brand’s CRO, CRM, and CX efforts, Finsi lifts customer lifetime value while lowering acquisition costs.

Formula is an AI-powered SaaS growth platform for D2C brands. It uses behavioral psychology techniques and rapid experimentation to increase conversion rates by 30%. We automate the entire conversion funnel optimization process—from product strategy and design to web development and A/B testing.

InfraSure  is a risk analytics platform purpose-built for infrastructure assets. Powered by hyperlocal and asset-specific risk models, we help investors, lenders, and brokers make climate-smart decisions. Specifically, we help avoid high risk projects early, optimize insurance spend, and reduce losses with specialized insurance solutions.

Inncivio  is the AI layer that drives more trades from existing retail investors on trading platforms. By reading user behavior in real time, our autonomous guidance delivers personalized nudges that transform hesitation into confident action. The result: higher transaction volumes and billions in additional revenue for trading platforms.

Lumion is an AI-powered trading platform for grid-connected batteries that enables battery storage owners to generate superior financial returns. We produce trading insights, dispatch schedules, and market auto-bidding. With Lumion, battery storage unlocks the next stage of the global energy transition.

Mila is a mobile app that provides a suite of AI clinicians to women during pregnancy, starting with AI-doulas—birth experts and coaches. Mila scales access for moms who want doula support but face cost and supply barriers. We pair each woman with an AI-enabled doula for virtual consults, proactive messaging, and hyper-personalized journeys.

Pilea is an AI solution that automatically detects subtle yet costly design issues on e-commerce websites. It identifies what other tools can’t catch, increasing sales by 6%.

PropIQ  is a customer intelligence platform that surfaces real-time borrower intent so banks can activate and monetize existing customers. Our agentic AI combines 500+ property, financial, and social signals to build a holistic view of a customer and surfaces personalized, prequalified financial offers at the moment they need them.

Sprygg is an intelligent platform that connects facility management software systems. By capturing data from emails, calls, and SMS, we automate facility workflows and integrate them directly into clients’ existing internal systems. Sprygg collects actionable “last mile” details, including service photos, to instantly generate completion reports—helping teams close work orders up to 30% faster.

Super Producer is the AI front office for automotive businesses like car dealerships and repair shops. With two-thirds of inquiries still by phone and up to 25% of calls unanswered, these businesses lose millions each year. Our 24/7 AI receptionist answers every call, books appointments, handles FAQs, integrates with CRMs/DMSs to drive more revenue, and frees staff for higher-value work.

About ERA

(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in 375+ 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, Katapult, Thirty Madison, Nayya, Order, Bespoke Post, User Interviews, Fund That Flip, 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.

 

 

 

NYC’s (ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Announces Participants For Its Winter 2025 Program; Companies Receive $150,000 Investments On a Post-Money SAFE

New York—January 13, 2025—ERA today announced that it has selected its Winter 2025 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 28th program. ERA’s initial investment in participant companies is $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company.

Carbon Clear is a vertical AI-powered platform for compliance filings. We automate the process by ingesting unstructured data, auto-populating compliance forms, and integrating with fragmented submission platforms. We make it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for energy consultants and building owners to comply with building codes like Local Law 97.

Clai is an AI-enabled platform that streamlines the entire residential real estate transaction process. We then provide tools for brokers to automate compliance.

DataStrut AI is the field data capture layer for construction. We turn messy field documents into structured data for downstream processes, so contractors deliver projects on time and under budget.

Electrify is a vertical SaaS platform that provides lighting manufacturers with the rails to digitize their products, quotes, prices, and partner relationships. Our technology transforms antiquated, manual processes into a streamlined ecommerce experience for manufacturers and their channel partners.

Elysium Energy is an AI-enabled platform for cost-effective hydrogen production. Our software allows energy project developers to make more accurate funding decisions and decrease operating costs. We move energy decentralization forward, making hydrogen projects viable and profitable.

Healthnix is an AI-powered clinical nutrition platform for chronic pain management. Our AI tool enables dietitians to create personalized plans for chronic pain patients with speed and precision. By streamlining the clinical nutrition process, Healthnix improves provider revenue and payer costs.

Multitude is an AI-native OTC commodities trading platform. Our AI engine automates capturing trade and market data for the $2.7T in OTC commodities contracts traded over email, phone or chat. By building the data layer for a fragmented market, Multitude is laying the foundation for a unified marketplace with seamless trade operations and AI-powered insights.

Neta is the product packaging intelligence platform for consumer brands and their packaging suppliers. Starting with regulatory compliance as our wedge, we use AI to aggregate critical data—packaging specs, materials, sales, and laws. From there, we streamline how companies manage their packaging: optimizing design, reducing costs, and unlocking visibility across the $700B packaging supply chain.

Notifi is the first communication-driven platform for home service businesses. We combine text, phone, and email into one system that drives sales, scheduling, dispatch, and payments. By turning conversations into action, we help businesses close more jobs, reduce admin work, and deliver a better customer experience.

Overwatch Health provides AI-enabled home-based rehab for the 20M heart and lung patients in the US. We’ve built the first digital exercise platform with live clinical monitoring for heart and lung patients, enabling our clinicians to extend access to the 95% of patients that currently go untreated.

Policybot is translating complex health insurer rules into code. With Policybot’s API, medical billing companies get paid faster, with less red tape.

Potions is an AI agent that automates full-service marketing for the ten million SMBs who can’t afford an agency. We build verticalized AI agents that interview our customer’s team to extract unique insights and produce fully designed newsletters, SEO content, and LinkedIn posts.

Roz is an AI platform that automates manual compliance work. We find documentation gaps, pull evidence automatically, and check continuously if companies are compliant with audits, contracts, regulations, and more. What takes teams months, Roz does in hours—saving time and reducing risk.

Tensor Planet is a 24/7 fleet doctor that keeps heavy-duty trucks on the road longer across industries like waste management, construction, and agriculture. Our AI platform analyzes onboard telematics, audio, vibration, and video data to predict failures weeks in advance. We help prevent breakdowns, extend truck life, and reduce spare vehicles—saving up to $15,000 per truck annually.

TwinsAI is a sales automation app that uses AI-powered voice clones to automate repetitive sales tasks like cold calling and prospecting, enabling inside sales reps to focus on high-value interactions and scale their outreach by 6-11x.

About ERA
(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in 350+ 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, Thirty Madison, Nayya, Order, Bespoke Post, User Interviews,  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.

Portfolio Company Founders Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 2025

Congrats to these portfolio companies  / founders on being named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2025!

 

Introduction to Soft Prompting

💡 Conveying your intention to a Large Language Model (LLM) is not easy.

Portfolio company Plum Defense (Julian Norton and Prem Ganeshkumar, founders) break it down.

 

Introduction to Soft Prompting

 

NYC’s (ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Announces Participants For Its Summer 2024 Program

New York—June 17, 2024—ERA today announced that it has selected its Summer 2024 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 27th program. ERA’s initial investment in participant companies is $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company.

Adrsta AI is a cross platform, AI-enabled, 1st party data-driven Marketing Science SaaS platform for marketing planning, buying, and measurement. Using machine learning on integrated customer, sales, and advertising data, Adrsta AI empowers marketers with sophisticated marketing science solutions like Bid Optimizer, Next Best Action, Marketing Mix Modeling, Geo-based Measurement, and more.

Dokai transforms enterprise knowledge management with AI agents by optimizing time-to-answer and time-to-documentation. Dokai learns skills directly from user actions and provides interactive, visual guidance to assist others in performing tasks and workflows seamlessly.

Eloo saves companies costly software product mistakes and breakdowns by providing constant in-depth specs analysis. Using advanced AI models, Eloo “x-rays” the breadth and depth of both current and planned requirements and specs, and spots misalignments, wrongly planned systems, and unoptimized tech design – all from the comfort of our users’ current tools, flows, and workspaces.

Fig Medical is a platform to help doctors focus on patients, not administrative work. Our software integrates into the EHR and uses NLP methods to predict prior authorization outcomes. It retrieves, parses and analyzes all relevant clinical data and documentation, while also identifying missing prerequisites that the insurer may require for submission.

Flisk is an AI-powered data collection platform that solves the problem of inaccurate and inconsistent data. We give engineers, data teams, and business leaders the tools they need to track high-quality data. We prevent data pipeline disruptions and empower business teams to better understand what their data means.

Neru Health is AI-personalized sleep therapy to help businesses manage chronic sleep disorders beginning with 20M+ shift workers (nurses, truckers, and pilots). Neru reduces $100B in costs for employers by improving workforce productivity, safety, mental health, and cardiometabolic health with one sleep care platform.

NOX Energy offers heat pump owners the opportunity to earn passive income and reduce their electricity bills. Our AI-powered software makes it possible to steer the operation of multiple heat pumps, allowing us to participate in the flexibility market. This optimization not only generates significant CO2 savings but also maximizes efficiency.

Octozi builds AI agents to accelerate clinical development workflows for the pharma industry.  Our platform leverages custom large language models to automate traditionally manual and cumbersome activities in data cleaning and regulatory submission in order to accelerate time to market.

Plum Defense makes AI lifecycle management easy, secure, and effective. Our platform helps engineers improve the performance of their LLM applications.

Q.I. is an intelligent SAAS platform revolutionizing predictive insights and real-time content testing for direct-to-consumer brands, enhancing customer engagement and minimizing social backlash risks. By harnessing the power of AI and qualitative intelligence, Q.I. transforms fragmented audience and customer data into actionable, personalized, risk-assessed communication strategies that resonate authentically and drive loyalty.

Try8 is a demo automation platform enabling software companies to provide prospects with an immediate experience of their product, increasing the speed of purchase by removing friction.

WattsUp offers an advanced AI-driven predictive maintenance solution for EV chargers that dramatically enhances charger reliability. Our solution detects anomalies, predicts failures, autonomously orders parts, and schedules technicians—all without user intervention.

WIPJar minimizes the accumulation of dead inventory for businesses that develop, produce, distribute, warehouse, and sell physical product. While inventory optimization is always a work in progress, WIPJar de-risks and automates its management with an AI/ML SaaS.

Zero-True is a SaaS solution that enhances collaboration and ensures reproducibility among data teams. Our integrated development and deployment platform enables instant sharing of sophisticated AI/ML models and visualizations, empowering businesses to make data-driven decisions with unprecedented speed and reliability.

10clear is an AI-powered reporting compliance solution. We optimize the quality of financial and non-financial reports and streamline compliance for our users. 10clear automates regulatory, accounting and sustainability disclosure and data evaluations.

About ERA

(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in 330+ 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, Katapult, Thirty Madison, Nayya, Order, Bespoke Post, User Interviews, Fund That Flip, 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.

 

 

 

Portfolio Companies Named to Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2024

Congrats to these portfolio companies on being named to the Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2024