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We believe the most important companies of the next century are being built today.

Our mission is to partner with these visionary founders and build the infrastructure that enables breakthrough technology.

 
What we do

Our Businesses

Investment Management
We back repeat, powerhouse founders and operators building generational-defining businesses.

Venture Capital

High Frequency Trading

Private Credit

Multi Family Office

Era partners with industry-leading families and institutions to invest in the world’s greatest technology founders and operators. Era is sector and stage-agnostic.

Rhizome is an algorithmic trading firm that leverages high-frequency strategies, advanced research infrastructure, and proprietary compute systems to analyze and act on data across digital asset markets.As part of Era’s platform, Rhizome reflects our broader capacity to build, operate, and invest in deep-tech infrastructure; from trading systems to sovereign-scale AI.

Specialty Lending

Era Specialty Lending provides flexible, founder-aligned credit to high-growth companies and asset-backed platforms underserved by traditional lenders.

Exponent is an all-in-one financial technology platform built for franchisee operators, providing asset-backed financing solutions, industry-specific credit cards, and AI-enabled business management software.

We build bespoke co-investment strategies for our family LPs, aligning capital around shared theses and trusted operating partners.
8090 Partners

Backed by the Ozmen family, owners of Sierra Nevada Corporation, one of the largest privately-held defense prime contractors in the U.S., 8090 Partners is a multi-family investment partnership

Two Tails Management

Backed by Andre Koo Sr, Chairman of Chailease Group, one of the largest non-bank finacnail service groups in Asia, Two Tails Management is an Asia-focused multi-family investment partnership

AI Infrastructure
We invest in the next generation of sovereign AI infrastructure—mobilizing capital into cloud platforms alongside families, institutions, and governments.

Infrastructure Fund

Strive Computing

AI Infrastructure

Powered by Era’s global family ecosystem, the Era AI Infrastructure Fund is a dedicated investment vehicle to finance and scale sovereign AI infrastructure. The fund targets high-growth operators and platforms that deploy GPU cloud, data center, and compute infrastructure and built on NVIDIA technical architecture and delivered in partnership with families, institutions, and governments.

Strive serves as the digital transformation arm for enterprises adopting AI, helping organizations integrate advanced AI capabilities into existing operations, spanning strategy, custom model deployment, and workflow redesign, while ensuring secure, scalable implementation. Drawing on deep technical expertise and Era’s global network, Strive positions itself as a trusted partner for corporates and governments accelerating AI adoption.

Who We Are
Founded by Jasper Lau,
Era is a multi-strategy investment management firm anchored by the world’s most strategic families and institutions
Era mobilizes strategic capital and industry intelligence to build and back world-class technology companies. Our ambition is to be one of the most successful investment firms in the world by delivering superior returns for investors over the long-term and unlocking breakthrough technology that deliver lasting value.
Jasper Lau
Founder & CEO
Caroline Pugh
Partner & Head of Value Creation
Jason Halbert
Partner & Head of Talent
Oliver Young
Principal
Willy Williams
Head of Compliance and Operations
Thomas Young
Head of Credit
 
The current and former portfolio companies shown on this page do not represent all investments made in funds managed by Era or Era partners. Some of these investments were made by funds affiliated with Era.
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