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 AI supply chain analyst that helps industrial manufacturers and distributors accomplish 2-3x more work without adding headcount. We automate supply chains from BOM to buy, surfacing new insights into cost drivers and savings opportunities. In increasingly complex times, we help teams do more with less.
Astute is an AI-native platform for creator partnerships across Substack, newsletters, podcasts, and LinkedIn. We convert millions of B2B creators into a scalable growth engine for companies. Astute helps companies connect with valuable audiences and become part of the conversation.
Cascade Geomatics is an early warning system for geohazards. We combine rugged field sensing with predictive forecasting to detect risk before failure. Our platform turns site data into clear, actionable alerts and defensible reporting for rail and mining operations.
Claer Ai is the AI-native future of personalized supplement regimens. Our engine matches your biometrics against 50,000 clinical studies to pair you with a personalized, powdered beverage that tastes great and supports your health goals.
Closai is customer purchase infrastructure for retail. With a simple sync, our proprietary system turns years of fragmented customer receipts into a unified, permissioned data layer. We make it easy for any brand, app or agent to plug into our ecosystem to build better shopping experiences for each person.
Discernis 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 platform that helps enterprise Account Executives close bigger 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 makes smart hardware for hotel operations. Our micro-factories reduce room servicing costs by up to 50% by manufacturing liquid products on location.
M8ven is the trust infrastructure built for the agent economy. AI systems and platforms use M8ven to make real-time decisions about which entities are safe to interact with. By embedding trust before systems take action, M8ven enables secure connections and transactions across businesses, AI tools, and beyond.
Orqa is the source of truth on people. Our proprietary Orqa Person Graph resolves thousands of public sources into a living view of who someone is, their relationships, what has happened in their life, and what is likely to happen next. What a great private banker builds over fifteen years, we compute in minutes
Parrot Content is the agentic creative studio that makes great content easy to ship. We give marketing teams a growth engine that gets more effective over time. Because paid is getting more expensive, AI is making everyone sound the same, and every company deserves world-class storytelling.
Passu is an operating system for institutional corporate credit research. We help automate core analyst workflows, generate citation-grounded analysis, and surface relevant insights from across primary sources. This enables fixed income investors to cover more credits, more comprehensively and reduce their time to informed decision.
philter is the orchestration platform for agent-human collaboration. It unifies workflows and brings real-time visibility and control in one place. Not only does philter recommend whether an action should be assigned to an agent or a human, but also which tool and model. philter guides chiefs of staff and managers on delegating work in hybrid teams.
Quantuma is the deal intelligence platform for commercial banking. Our deep reasoning agents synthesize transaction data and financial records, such as liens, ownership changes, and personnel trends into clear opportunity 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.