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 media communications platform. Astute unifies the fragmented media landscape of Substacks, newsletters and podcasts, converting them into a scalable growth engine for companies. We help brands connect with valuable audiences and become part of the conversation.
Cascade Geomatics is a terrain-intelligence platform providing defensible intelligence for high-risk environments. By transforming rugged field sensing into live 3D digital twins, we deliver predictive analytics for landslides, avalanches, mudslides, tailings, rockfalls and more. Our platform provides an insurance-defensible record of due diligence, improving operational efficacy and protecting infrastructure corridors through reliable, actionable alerts and audit-ready reporting.
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 Closai is the purchase intelligence layer for retail. Our proprietary system catalogs years of fragmented customer purchase history with a simple sync. With this unique, cross-brand dataset, we enable retailers, apps and agents to create high-intent, personalized shopping experiences that convert.
Closed1 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.
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.
MadeOnSite makes smart hardware for hotel operations. Our special-purpose machines make housekeepers 30% faster and room servicing products 50% cheaper.
M8ven is an AI-powered authorization infrastructure layer for commerce. Buyers, brands, and platforms use M8ven to make secure, real-time decisions about which businesses are authorized to transact. We are the authorization layer that will make agentic commerce possible.
Orqa is the source of truth on people. We compute the full picture of who someone actually is, how they’re connected, and how deep those connections go, across thousands of sources that were never designed to be connected. We are building the intelligence layer underneath every industry where relationships drive outcomes.
Parrot Content is the fastest way for brands to make great content. We replace the bloated, stitched-together content stack with one opinionated system — so marketing teams can produce more on-brand, channel-native content at the speed of culture, without the overhead or the AI slop risk.
Passu is an operating system for institutional corporate credit research. We automate 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 the project agent that automates your busywork and enforces best practices to drive projects forward. philter captures all your meetings and materials, ensuring a single source of truth, and turns them into actionable tasks and automated follow-ups. By incorporating best-in-class project principles, philter turns chiefs of staff and fast-growing project teams into top-tier project managers.
Quantuma is the origination platform for private credit. 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.