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How many venture investors once ran a residential real estate brokerage?
Era Ventures Founder and Managing Partner Clelia Peters just might be the only one. In 2014, she took the reins at Warburg Realty, her family’s real estate brokerage firm and the largest independent brokerage in NYC. Along the way, she built one of the most impressive backgrounds in proptech investing, co-founding top accelerator program MetaProp and joining Bain Capital Ventures as a Venture Partner.
Since going off on our own and founding Era Ventures with partner Raja Ghawi in 2021, Peters has taken an unorthodox approach to proptech venture investing. She’s hasn’t been afraid to bet on sticks-and-bricks concepts, backing companies working in the physical world including Truehold and Welcome Homes.
Our conversation digs into her investme ...