Investing today for a better
World tomorrow.

About

What?

Aera VC is an early-growth fund investing in deep tech ventures that accelerate the world towards a sustainable future.

Why?

We believe sustainability is the largest investment opportunity of our life time. We have been generating outstanding financial returns since 2016 while investing in the pursuit of a better world.

How?

Our portfolio companies are the best illustration in what we believe can be achieved and what we aspire to. As we build a global portfolio and back future icons, we are proud that nearly half of Aera portfolio companies are co-founded by women, more than 3x the industry average.

How we invest

The Aera Questions

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Will this idea transform the status quo towards a fundamentally better outcome for society and our planet?

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Are these outstanding founders striving to be the best in the world and the best for the world?

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Will this industry look radically different if this product, service or business model succeeds?

Our beginnings

The Start of a New Era

Aera VC was incubated by the Aera Foundation, which was established by Aera VC’s co-founder Derek Handley and his wife Maya. The Foundation is a registered charity that invests in imaginative ways to improve the state of our people and planet.

The Foundation’s genesis was to incubate an initiative with transformative positive potential that could also generate long-term financial benefit. The Foundation is a key stakeholder in Aera VC.

Aera is the Latin root of the word era: of our time. Maya and Derek chose this name to work on endeavours representative of the change needed for our generation. We are here to build towards this change for the long term, fundamentally shifting the world’s axis towards a sustainable future and a new era. Our logo expresses the world under protection yet with direction upwards, forwards, into the beyond.