# Era

> Era is a VC fund in New York backing Software and FinTech. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/erafunds/

Era is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and FinTech. 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 industrialchallenges.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.2M–$2B |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$3M |
| Series A | $7.7M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 29% |
| FinTech | 3 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 12% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 35% |
| Series A | 5 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 18% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 41% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jasper Lau | Founder & CEO | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jasper-lau |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hydra Host | Hydra Host is a tool that provides cross-cloud capabilities to deploy and host apps across public cloud and private cloud providers. In addition to cross-cloud capabilities, Hydra offers high-level advisory, as well as expert implementation work with bespoke service engagements catered to client priorities. Whether security, resilience, orscale-focused. | $100M | Series A | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| Exponent Financial | Exponent Financial is a financial platform designed for franchise owners and multi-location enterprises. | $7.7M | Series A | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Nitra | Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products. | $50M | Series B | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Unconventional AI | Unconventional AI develops a novel computing platform that rethinks how hardware and software interact to support artificial intelligence workloads with a focus on energy use and computational efficiency. The company works on integrating principles from biological neural systems into silicon-based circuits and related software interfaces to createa different substrate for running AI models. Its products and research aim to address the rising energy demands of AI by exploring non-traditional architectures that move beyond conventional digital simulation of neural networks. Unconventional AI also engages in early-stage development of prototypes and toolchains that support this new approach to AI computation. | $475M | Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Harmonic | Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations. | $120M | Series C | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| Nitra | Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products. | $22M | Series A | Aug 01, 2025 |  |
| Thinking Machines Lab | Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company focused on making knowledge accessible to everyone. Thinking Machines Lab is developing multimodal AI systems to collaborate with humans across various domains. The company focuses on building models that can adapt to different levels of human expertise, aiming toexpand their applications in science, programming, and other fields. Its research explores advanced AI capabilities to support scientific discoveries and engineering advancements. | $2B | Seed | Jun 20, 2025 |  |
| Jericho Security | Jericho Security is protect the world from the emerging dangers of generative AI cyberattacks. Jericho Security created proprietary generative AI, cyberGPT, to simulate attacks, create new defenses and educate to prevent serious losses from cyberattacks. | $15M | Series A | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| Adro | Adro is an onramp to financial services for internationals moving to the US for school or work. From the day of their arrival, students and workers can access equitable checking, savings, and credit, reduced rates on international money transfer, and tuition payment processing, all without an SSN. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Harmonic | Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations. | $75M | Series A | Sep 23, 2024 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Sazze Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sazzepartners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NVIDIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nvidia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Era invest in?

Era invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Era's check size?

Era typically joins rounds of $3.2M–$2B at Seed, $500k–$3M at Pre-Seed and $7.7M–$100M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Era participates in.

### How do I contact Era?

Public channels for Era include LinkedIn. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Era?

The team at Era includes Jasper Lau (Founder & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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