NYC’s ERA Announces Participants For Its Winter 2023 Program; Companies Receive $150,000 Investments On a Post-Money SAFE

New York—January 9, 2023—ERA today announced that it has selected its Winter 2023 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 24th program. ERA’s initial investment in participant companies is $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company.

Atlas Primer is a personal learning assistant that reads any text-based learning material out loud and converses about it in natural spoken language. It’s like having a tutor, only it’s both scalable and affordable.

Beagle Labs is an AI-driven SaaS platform for inspectors, property insurance adjusters and property managers. Our software utilizes computer vision to scan infrastructure and provide reports on damages and code violations. Beagle simplifies the tedious building inspection process.

CancerMark is a patient empowerment platform for cancer patients and their caregivers seeking the best care. We educate patients and connect them to subject matter experts who help them navigate their treatment options. We also assist with clinical trial enrollment that is personalized for each patient.

Castellum.AI is an automated compliance screening solution for fighting financial crime. We bring together thousands of risk-focused data sets from all over the world, covering sanctions, law enforcement “most wanted,”  politicians at high risk of bribery– and more. We enrich this data through an efficient automated process enabling us to better uncover global financial crime.

Coral is a B2B software platform that helps heat pump installers win more customers. We allow installers to offer seamless financing to their customers, unlock upselling opportunities, and automate internal processes. With Coral, installers earn more money while homeowners reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.

Flyhound is a public safety solution to help find people fast. We enable public safety agencies using commercial drones to locate and identify mobile phones on the ground to assist in rescue efforts, locate missing persons, evacuate disaster victims, find criminal suspects, and more.

Helpen lets employees direct corporate donations in Slack as a form of employee engagement. We streamline the manual corporate donation process and allow companies to amplify their impact by giving employees ownership over company decisions. Companies save time, money, and achieve up to 7x the employee engagement vs the average matching program.

Keye is a platform for bite-sized access to personal and professional applications. Our subscription lets you access the best digital content and productivity apps with just a click — no sign-up, payment hassles or long-term commitments.

Metatate is a data-privacy layer for the enterprise. Our platform offers simple management of consumer privacy rules for complex legal, regulatory, and commercial environments. Cross-functional teams use Metatate’s intuitive templates and visual workflows to collaborate on data privacy administration, creating a system-of-record for data use cases.

Pharmesol is a clinical services platform that automates follow-up care for medications. We unlock new clinical capacity for provider organizations, improving patient outcomes and access to equitable care.

Present is a digital wellness platform that makes it fun and easy to stay off your phone. Our platform motivates people to practice healthy phone habits through gamification and financial incentives. Present empowers people to control how they use technology to achieve their goals and improve their mental health, wellness, and productivity.

Racebuilds is a marketplace for gearheads to buy and sell aftermarket car parts, which are elusive to find and challenging to purchase. We make the process easy by cataloging and curating the world of aftermarket parts to power a buying experience tailored to the automotive enthusiast.

Sādu is a mobile app that makes investing in carbon removal easy. App users subscribe and complete activities to receive a collection of digital assets that contain the data to verify ecosystem conservation and restoration.

Shiny is a modern marketplace for commercial cleaning where employers have on-demand access to engaged workers. Starting with hospitality, our customers use Shiny to find and retain labor to maximize profitability of their assets. Workers use Shiny to find a career that fits their schedule, augments their income, and provides growth and autonomy.

YellowTin is a whole home electrification platform for savings, conversion planning, rebates, and products. We help climate-leading companies engage and empower their residential audiences–both employees and customers– transition to whole-home electrification. We provide these audiences with zip-code level personalized recommendations to save money and cut carbon by switching to clean technologies from solar- to EV-to induction cooktops.

About ERA

ERA is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in 300+ 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 $1.7 billion in investor capital and collectively exceed $10 billion in market capitalization.