ERA
40 West 25 Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10010, United States
Overview
Founded by Jasper Lau, Era is a global investment firm backed by leading closely-held family enterprises across 19 countries and 25 industries. Era brings together the collective expertise, industry intel, and strategic capital of the firm’s families to invest in category-defining technology companies solving civilization’s biggest industrial challenges.
- Total investments
- 24
- Lead investments
- 6
- Investments · 12mo
- 5
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Software
Investment portfolio
- Hydra Host
Participated · Series A · Jun 2026
Founded in 2021, Hydra Host began by serving cryptocurrency miners and has pivoted to offer automation software for data center operators and an AI server brokerage platform. The company enables operators to rent out idle NVIDIA AI server computing power and runs a GPU matching marketplace connecting GPU owners with renters. As of the latest reports, Hydra Host has deployed its technology in 50 data centers worldwide, up from 30 earlier in the year. The company completed a $100 million project funding round led by Kindred Ventures that values it at close to $800 million post-money, with participation from Nvidia, ARK Invest, Magnetar Capital, Founders Fund, and Flume Ventures. The articles do not report revenue, user, or other operating metrics beyond data center deployments.
- HeyMilo
Participated · Seed · Jun 2026
HeyMilo builds an agentic recruiting platform that starts structured, interactive screening the moment candidates apply, using voice, video, phone, SMS, and resume agents and returning rubric-scored results and transcripts into ATS systems. The company says it has screened more than one million candidates in production and has onboarded customers including Randstad, WilsonHCG, and Neo Financial across staffing, BPO, and high-volume corporate hiring. HeyMilo is introducing three new agent types: AI Scenario Assessment to evaluate candidate interaction with AI, Candidate Recommendations to resurface and rank previously screened applicants, and Notetaker to capture structured notes from live interviews. The company positions its product as a recruiting intelligence layer aimed at improving fairness and recruiter efficiency in high-volume hiring. HeyMilo was founded in 2023 and has raised $6 million to date.
- Exponent Financial
Led · Series A · May 2026
Exponent provides an integrated platform combining capital, expense management, and AI-powered accounting tailored for multi-unit franchise operators. The company positions itself as the Financial Operating System for America’s franchise operators, serving businesses within the $921 billion U.S. franchise economy. Exponent was founded and seeded by Era. It offers lending products for franchise acquisition, buildout, and bridge financing and plans to expand with AI Accounting products slated for release at the end of the year. The recently completed $40M equity-and-credit Series A is intended to accelerate product releases and scale lending and finance operations. Management emphasizes bringing strategic financial oversight onshore and automating bookkeeping to support franchise customers.
- Nitra
Participated · Series B · Mar 2026
Nitra embeds AI agents into core business functions—payments, procurement, inventory management, scheduling, and insurance verification—giving medical practices a single system to run their back office. Its financial suite includes a Visa-powered expense card, bill pay, patient payment processing, and AI-driven accounting, while its commerce marketplace connects users to thousands of biopharma and medical-supply products through partners like McKesson and Medline. Recently the company added a voice-AI patient management module that handles appointment scheduling and insurance eligibility checks. In 2025 the platform’s annualized revenue jumped from $4 million to more than $33 million on 740 percent growth, and it surpassed $1 billion in annualized processing volume across thousands of doctors in over 700 clinics. December 2025 saw a single-day record of roughly $9 million in purchases. Management expects to serve 3,000+ clinics, top $150 million in annualized revenue, and exceed $4 billion in processing volume during 2026. Founded in 2024 by CEO Tim Hwang and President Jonathan Chen, Nitra plans to expand headcount from about 50 to over 200 and roll out new AI modules for revenue-cycle management, patient marketing, payroll, and staffing.
- Keye
Participated · Seed · Jul 2025
Keye launched from stealth on July 29, 2025 with a platform that transforms raw deal files into structured, investor‑ready insights tailored to private equity workflows. Built by former investors, the product performs quantitative analyses, mirrors top deal‑team workflows, and delivers audit‑ready, Excel‑ready outputs. Keye emphasizes accuracy and claims zero errors or hallucinations, converting tasks that took days into minutes. Core capabilities include VDR scanning and data extraction, hidden‑risk flagging, cohort and retention analysis, dynamic Excel model exports, source attribution for every data point, conversational edits, and cross‑deal benchmarking. The company said the funding will accelerate hiring of engineers and private‑equity domain experts and expand analytical coverage across more verticals and the broader M&A community. Financially, Keye announced a $5 million Seed financing to support product and team expansion.
Team
Jasper L.
Founder & CEO
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