Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) Winter Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: November 3, 2025

Applications are open for the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) Winter Program 2026. ERA is New York City’s main know-how accelerator and early-stage enterprise capital fund. Since its founding in 2011, ERA alumni firms have raised greater than $2 billion in investor capital and collectively exceed $10 billion in market capitalization.

Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) combines seed capital, fingers-on assist and a terrific co-working location with an skilled staff to positively influence the trajectory of early-stage startups. ERA runs two, 4-month packages per 12 months.

ERA has NYC’s deepest and strongest mentor community with 500+ skilled buyers, technologists, product specialists, entrepreneurs, buyer acquisition strategists, gross sales execs, and extra, throughout all main industries represented in NYC. ERA firms achieve direct entry to main members of the New York City tech group by the ERA mentor community and are additionally given entry to the best buyers, gross sales prospects and companions. They search for firms from wherever on the planet which are capable of take full benefit of the NYC OPPORTUNITY as a place to begin to efficiently enter the marketplace for their product, service or application.

Benefits

ERA firms obtain the accomplice and sponsor advantages listed beneath:

• Up to $100,000 in webhosting credit from Google Cloud
• Up to $150,000 in webhosting credit from Microsoft Azure Credits
• $25,000 in webhosting credit from Amazon Web Services Activate Credits
• Up to $120K in webhosting credit from IBM Cloud
• $70,000 of charge-free fee processing with Stripe
• $50,000 in Segment credit in your first 12 months
• $7,500 in credit from Plaid
• $5,000 in OpenAI API Credits
• $3,600 in credit for MongoDB Atlas
• $2,000 Airtable credit score
• $500 in free cloud credit and 70% discounted cloud providers for 2 years
• Preferred pricing from Thoropass
• Preferred pricing from Carta
• Preferred pricing from Justworks
• Preferred pricing from Deel
• Bank bonuses with Rho, Mercury, and Citizens Bank
• Free and discounted providers from Withum, HubSpot, Streak, Dropbox, LangChain, Pilot, Capchase, Apollo, and extra.

Eligibility

• ERA firms are know-how firms, or firms with a major know-how element, since these are the businesses they can assist probably the most. They search for firms finest capable of take full benefit of the New York City alternative as a place to begin to efficiently enter the marketplace for their product, service or application.
• Most ERA firms will likely be software program or software program-associated indirectly, and could also be both B-to-B or B-to-C-centered. Our pursuits are as various as your concepts: Internet, Mobile, FinTech, Payments, SaaS, E-Commerce, Health Tech, Climate, Education, Real Estate, Logistics, IoT, Fashion Tech, Ad Tech, Media, Marketing, and plenty of extra.
• They need to you to wow them with something Internet and software program-associated that you just suppose is cool. They contemplate all of the enterprise questions across the product enterprise idea and market dimension. In the tip, they need to know if yours is a superb staff and the best staff on your product and enterprise.
• They haven’t any particular stage necessities, however most firms may have assembled a staff and developed an preliminary product. Many have early clients and income. They don’t reject firms only for being sooner than that, however they should see the staff has made an actual dedication to the corporate and a transparent imaginative and prescient for its future.

Application

• The application deadline: November 3, 2025
• Program begin date: January 12, 2026

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