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| 2021 | Katapult, an ERA portfolio company, was acquired by a SPAC, achieving a $1 billion valuation and becoming publicly traded on NASDAQ under ticker KPLT. |
| 2021 | TripleLift, another ERA portfolio company, sold a majority stake to Vista Equity Partners, valuing the company at $1.4 billion. |
| 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, ERA conducted Demo Days online via live streamed videoconferences, adapting their traditional investor pitch event to the virtual format. |
| 2020 | Forbes 30 Under 30 - Retail & Ecommerce list featured Yuni Sameshima and Joey Petracca, cofounders of Chicory. |
| 2019 | Fox Business News television broadcast an interview with the cofounders of With Clarity. |
| 2019 | Crain's New York Business magazine ranked ERA as the #1 most active venture capital firm in the New York metropolitan area, completing 27 investments and ranking fifth in funding round dollars with $47.2 million. |
| 2019 | Six ERA alumni companies made it onto Inc. Magazine's 5000 list, with Fund That Flip placing #42 with 3-year revenue growth of 6,018%. |
| 2018 | Young Alfred, a machine learning AI-powered licensed digital broker, received $10 million in funding a few months after graduating from the ERA winter 2018 accelerator program, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. |
| 2015 | Fund That Flip graduated from ERA's summer accelerator program. |
| 2015 | Start of a 3-year period (2015-2018) where the Financial Times ranked two ERA alumni startups (With Clarity, Fund That Flip) in the top 5% of independent Western Hemisphere companies based on organic CAGR. |
| 2014 | Forbes ranked PublicStuff #85 in its America's Most Promising Companies list. |
| 2013 | Cofounders of Consignd and VocalizeLocal from the ERA winter 2013 cohort later joined forces to create Casper, a $400 million e-commerce unicorn. |
| 2013 | PublicStuff expanded its customer footprint into the San Francisco Bay Area, with their iHelp app declared 'a huge success' by the Daly City planner. |
| 2013 | Forbes highlighted PublicStuff's founder Lily Liu as having built an 'outstanding company'. |
| 2012 | ERA was first ranked in the top 20 seed accelerators in the United States by the Seed Accelerators Ranking Project (SARP). |
| January 2011 | Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) was launched in January, establishing a seed accelerator program in New York City that runs two four-month startup accelerator programs annually. |
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