The startup has raised $11 million in funding to date. This includes a $9 million seed round led by Abstract Ventures and BoxGroup, with participation from Collaborative Fund and Mozilla Ventures. Previously, the company had raised $2 million in pre-seed funding from Topology Ventures and Betaworks.

Individual angel investors include Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, iPhone keyboard creator Ken Kocienda, OAS founder Tony Wang, Little Guy co-founder Daniel Kuntz, Sandbar co-founder Mina Fahmi, former Rabbit CPO ShaoBo Z, and Poetry Camera creator Kelin Zhang.

Era was founded last year by CEO Liz Dorman, CTO Alex Ollman, and CPO Megan Gole. Dorman worked at Humane on AI orchestration and transitioned to HP as part of the company’s acquisition. Ollman worked at HP on agentic frameworks for enterprises. Gole worked at Sutter Hill Ventures on the Jony Ive and Sam Altman io project, and then later transitioned to Era.

Era investor Casey Caruso, who is a founder and managing partner at Topology Ventures, said that the startup’s orchestration platform stands out because of its dynamic routing across models and managing real-world constraints like connectivity.