[5][20] Crain's also ranked ERA #1 most active VC firm in the New York metropolitan area in 2019 (with 27 investments), and fifth in terms of funding round dollars (with $47.2 million).

[31][48] For example, Squarefoot was initially based in Houston, Texas, but upon graduation from the ERA accelerator tried its hand at the much larger New York commercial real estate market.

[2] From a size vantage point, ERA prefers startups with two- to four-person founding teams, working full time on their venture, with a least one founder possessing strong technical skills.

[6] ERA expects a startup's pitch deck to illuminate key dimensions such as the problem, solution, business model, market, underlying technology, marketing strategy, sales strategy, competition, risks, scalability, startup team, track record, current status, milestones, and references.

[52] Startup teams must be able to articulate their business model in terms of KPIs such as customer LTV, CAC, TAM, SAM, and SOM.

For example, if a startup's founders need to implement mobile payments or protect IP, ERA delivers that specific training.

[34] The ERA accelerator program culminates in Demo Day, where each startup company pitches their business to an audience of approximately 700 potential investors.

[3][5] Several ERA alumni companies credit their time in the accelerator program with rapidly building their business model.

[75] Likewise, it was at the suggestion of ERA mentors that alumni startup Chicory started charging food brands a virtual slotting fee to put their product directly into the buyer's online shopping cart.

[4][78][79][80][81] For example, The Wall Street Journal reported that Young Alfred (machine learning AI-powered licensed digital broker that integrates with insurance carriers such as Progressive and Lemonade) landed $10 million funding a few months after graduating from the ERA winter 2018 accelerator program.

[87] The New York Times devoted an article to ERA startup alumni Daivergent (connects IT companies such as SAP with a pool of candidate workers on the autism spectrum).

[90] In 2019, NYC-based Fox Business News television broadcast their interview of the cofounders of ERA alumni company With Clarity (delivers 3D printed wedding rings to try on at home).

[92] The NYC-based Wall Street Journal ran a piece on ERA alumni Appy Couple (mobile wedding app).

"[94] Similarly, the London-based Financial Times ranked two ERA alumni startups (With Clarity, Fund That Flip) in the top 5% of independent Western Hemisphere companies based on top-line organic CAGR over the 3-year period 2015 - 2018.

For example, cofounder Jessie Zeng was a "Featured Honoree" in a Forbes magazine video about ERA startup Choosy (an online, on-demand, small run fashion app based on social media likes and comments).

[96] NYC-based NBC published on the web their television interview of the founders of ERA alumni startup Triplemint (technology-enabled real estate brokerage).

For example, alumni startup Fund That Flip (graduate of ERA summer 2015 accelerator program) placed #42 with 3-year revenue growth of 6,018%.

[100] In 2021, ERA portfolio company, TripleLift, sold a majority stake in its business to Vista Equity Partners, valuing the former at $1.4 billion.

[103][104] Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is licensed and registered under the Central Registration Depository (CRD) system that is maintained by the U.S. private self-regulatory organization FINRA.