# New Era Ventures

> New Era Ventures is a VC fund in Washington backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 14%
- Fund size: $120k
- Last fund: Jun 2026
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- Website: https://www.newera.ventures/

New Era Ventures is a ventures Capital Firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 43% |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| Fitness | 2 | 29% |
| Wellness | 2 | 29% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Taxwire | Global Sales Tax Compliance Software | $3.9M | Pre-Seed | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Mine | Fizz is building a debit card that helps college students in the U.S. started building out their credit without having to learn lessons about overzealous credit use the hard way. | $14.4M | Seed | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Kindo | Kindo elevates the workforce by providing the only truly open AI platform for all businesses. | $7M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Papaya Global | Papaya Global provides a cloud-based HR and payroll platform for global workforce management.The automated, cloud-based SaaS platform unifies all workforce management tasks under one platform – providing an end-to-end solution, from onboarding to on-going management and cross-border payments. It also integrates with all existing HRIS managementtools, provides real-time business intelligence, and eliminates errors. It gathers all employee information into one place, creating a highly visible system for tracking payroll spending. The platform ensures GDPR and SOC compliance to maintain the highest standard of security.The company was co-founded by Eynat Guez, Ruben Drong, and Ofer Herman in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $40M | Series B | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Papaya Global | Papaya Global provides a cloud-based HR and payroll platform for global workforce management.The automated, cloud-based SaaS platform unifies all workforce management tasks under one platform – providing an end-to-end solution, from onboarding to on-going management and cross-border payments. It also integrates with all existing HRIS managementtools, provides real-time business intelligence, and eliminates errors. It gathers all employee information into one place, creating a highly visible system for tracking payroll spending. The platform ensures GDPR and SOC compliance to maintain the highest standard of security.The company was co-founded by Eynat Guez, Ruben Drong, and Ofer Herman in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $3M | Seed | Oct 03, 2018 |  |
| Vi | Vi is the world’s leading Enterprise-AI for digital health.Our cloud-based SaaS product, Vi Engage, supercharges the reach and efficiency of health experts, so they can provide more value to the masses by delivering the right content to the right people at the right time.Vi also produces engaging fitness & wellness experiences that focus onactive play and real-time coaching, including the award-winning Vi Trainer app, adaptive coaching experiences through a partnership with Bowflex JRNY, and exciting movement-powered games like Torch and Torch Royal for the iPhone. |  | Series A | Jan 03, 2018 |  |
| Vi Labs | VI is the leading Enterprise-AI platform in the health sector. Vi helps health enterprises leverage Data & AI to maximize member health outcomes and financial returns | $20M | Series A | Jan 03, 2018 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cerca Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cerca-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FGI Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fgi-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Joy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Square Peg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/square-peg-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sunset Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sunset-ventures-c665) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Triventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/triventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does New Era Ventures invest in?

New Era Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did New Era Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for New Era Ventures closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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