ERA Winter 2027
$150K/6% Post-Money SAFE
- Deadline
- Nov 2, 2026
- Applications
- Closed
- Location
- New York
- Duration
- Four months
Applications are closed
The application window closed Nov 2, 2026. This page stays here for the record.
About this program
ERA (Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator) is a four-month accelerator program in New York City. The companies selected to participate in the four-month program will receive an initial investment of $150K on a 6% post-money SAFE and the potential for follow-on funding. Companies are immersed in a mentor-driven program, with free office space, hosting credits from major cloud providers, and benefits from legal, finance, accounting and other business-service partners. ERA runs two programs per year, starting in January and June. Since its founding in 2011, ERA alumni companies have raised more than $2.5 billion in investor capital and collectively exceed $10 billion in market capitalization.
Key Benefits
- $150,000 investment on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of the company
- Potential for follow-on funding
- Mentor-driven program with ERA operating partners and mentors
- Free office space
- Demo Day: present your company to hundreds of investors, angels, super-angels and VCs
- Up to $250,000 in webhosting credits from Google Cloud
- Up to $250,000 in webhosting credits from Microsoft Azure Credits
- $25,000 in webhosting credits from Amazon Web Services Activate Credits
- Up to $120K in webhosting credits from IBM Cloud
- $70,000 of fee-free payment processing with Stripe
- $50,000 in Segment credits in your first year
- $7,500 in credits from Plaid
- $5,000 in OpenAI API Credits
- $3,600 in credits for MongoDB Atlas
- $2,000 Airtable credit
- $1,500 in Anthropic API credits
- $500 in free cloud credits and 70% discounted cloud services for two years from Oracle
- 11M credits per month with ElevenLabs
- Preferred pricing from Thoropass, Carta, Justworks and Deel
- Bank bonuses with Rho, Mercury, Stifel, and Citizens Bank
- Free and discounted services from Withum, HubSpot, Streak, Dropbox, LangChain, Pilot, Capchase, Apollo, Metal, Cake, Linear, and more
Eligibility
- Technology companies, or companies with a significant technology component; most are software or software-related, B-to-B or B-to-C
- For-profit companies only (ERA cannot invest in non-profit organizations)
- No specific stage requirement; most companies have assembled a team and developed an initial product
- No required number of founders; ERA's bias is for two to four person teams
- Strong preference for technical cofounders
- The key leadership team must commit full-time to the startup
- Applications are welcome from anywhere in the world; ERA does not help with work visas
- ERA invests only in U.S. C Corporations; an LLC or foreign entity must flip to a U.S. C Corporation
- Companies that have already raised funding can apply
Program Structure
- Four-month program; two programs per year, starting in January and June
- Winter 2027 program starts January 11, 2027
- In-person in New York City with some remote-friendly programming; companies are expected to work out of the ERA space
- Ends with Demo Day
Program questionnaire
What Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) asks on its own application. Nothing is answered here, prepare these, then apply on their site.
- 1
Email
Email - 2
Your first and last name
- 3
Your company email
Email - 4
Your mobile phone number
- 5
Team Member 1
Long answera) What is your role at the company? b) Your LinkedIn profile c) Additional background? If your LinkedIn is not updated, please provide details of degrees and institutions, skills, previous companies and experience (not bio). Also please include your Twitter, HackerNews, Facebook and GitHub handles if applicable d) Are you full time? If so, how long have you been full time? If not why not? e) Where are you based? (1,000 characters max)
- 6
Team Member 2
Long answera) Name and role at the company? b) LinkedIn profile c) Additional background? If LinkedIn is not updated, please provide details of degrees and institutions, skills, previous companies and experience (not bio). Also please include Twitter, HackerNews, Facebook and GitHub handles if applicable d) Is this person full time? If so, how long has this person been full time? If not why not? e) Where is this person based? (1,000 characters max)
- 7
Team Member 3
Long answera) Name and role at the company? b) LinkedIn profile c) Additional background? If LinkedIn is not updated, please provide details of degrees and institutions, skills, previous companies and experience (not bio). Also please include Twitter, HackerNews, Facebook and GitHub handles if applicable d) Is this person full time? If so, how long has this person been full time? If not why not? e) Where is this person based? (1,000 characters max)
- 8
Team Member 4 and beyond
Long answera) Names and roles at the company? b) LinkedIn profiles c) Additional backgrounds? If LinkedIn is not updated, please provide details of degrees and institutions, skills, previous companies and experience (not bio). Also please include Twitter, HackerNews, Facebook and GitHub handles if applicable d) Is this person full time? If so, how long has this person been full time? If not why not? e) Where is this person based? (1,000 characters max)
- 9
Company Name
- 10
Company Website
Link