Deadline: November 3, 2025
Applications are open for the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) Winter Program 2026. ERA is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. Since its founding in 2011, ERA alumni companies have raised more than $2 billion in investor capital and collectively exceed $10 billion in market capitalization.
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) combines seed capital, hands-on help and a great co-working location with an expert team to positively impact the trajectory of early-stage startups. ERA runs two, four-month programs per year.
ERA has NYC’s deepest and strongest mentor network with 500+ expert investors, technologists, product specialists, marketers, customer acquisition strategists, sales execs, and more, across all major industries represented in NYC. ERA companies gain direct access to leading members of the New York City tech community through the ERA mentor network and are also given access to the right investors, sales prospects and partners. They look for companies from anywhere in the world that are able to take full advantage of the NYC opportunity as a starting point to successfully enter the market for their product, service or application.
Benefits
ERA companies receive the partner and sponsor benefits listed below:
- Up to $100,000 in webhosting credits from Google Cloud
- Up to $150,000 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
- $500 in free cloud credits and 70% discounted cloud services for two 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 services from Withum, HubSpot, Streak, Dropbox, LangChain, Pilot, Capchase, Apollo, and more.
Eligibility
- ERA companies are technology companies, or companies with a significant technology component, since those are the companies they can help the most. They look for companies best able to take full advantage of the New York City opportunity as a starting point to successfully enter the market for their product, service or application.
- Most ERA companies will be software or software-related in some way, and may be either B-to-B or B-to-C-focused. Our interests are as diverse as your ideas: Internet, Mobile, FinTech, Payments, SaaS, E-Commerce, Health Tech, Climate, Education, Real Estate, Logistics, IoT, Fashion Tech, Ad Tech, Media, Marketing, and many more.
- They are looking to you to wow them with anything Internet and software-related that you think is cool. They consider all the business questions around the product business concept and market size. In the end, they want to know if yours is a great team and the right team for your product and business.
- They have no specific stage requirements, but most companies will have assembled a team and developed an initial product. Many have early customers and revenue. They don’t reject companies just for being earlier than that, but they need to see the team has made a real commitment to the company and a clear vision for its future.
Application
- The application deadline: November 3, 2025
- Program start date: January 12, 2026
For more information, see FAQ and visit Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator.
