Clelia Peters
Managing Partner at Era Ventures
Clelia Peters
Managing Partner at Era Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2022 - Current
Founding Partner of Era Ventures, a fund platform to reimagine the physical world.
Board Member
2023
Proudly a Board member for the leading company reimagining the $400B home building industry with a capital and liability light ‘neo-builder’ model
Board Member
2021
Proudly a Board member for the leading next generation Property management as a service company
Board Member
2019
Proudly a Board member for rapidly growing brokerage-as-a-service platform Side.
Venture Partner
2020 - 2021
Work with the industry leading team and entrepreneurs at Bain Capital Ventures to further build out the Proptech platform and encourage innovation in the built world. Support multi-stage Proptech investing efforts, including sourcing, diligencing and investing in the leading companies disrupting real estate.
President
2014 - 2021
Responsible for the development of Warburg’s overall and business development strategies and for maintaining a focus on innovation and revenue growth. Since my arrival in January 2014, the company has undertaken a brand refresh, opened two new offices and significantly expanded our global reach through partnerships.
Co-Founding Partner
2015 - 2019
Co-founded MetaProp, a real estate tech accelerator that evolved into a $40 million seed stage venture fund focused exclusively on high growth seed-stage startups that are transforming the way we conceive of, construct, transact, manage, utilize, and interact with real property. MetaProp is amongst the most active early stage real estate technology investors. MetaProp's team and strategic seed stage funds have invested in 60+ technology companies across the full real estate value chain that have raised more than $2 billion and employ over 1,500 people globally.
CEO and Co-founder
2013 - 2013
Worked with Sallie Krawcheck to explore the concept for Latticeworks, a company which aimed to redefine how highly skilled people work and allow them to bring their skills to the market on a project basis. With a strategic focus on creating more opportunities for highly skilled women, we explored building a marketplace for skilled work that is independent and project based, as well developing systems to provide key elements of back office support. We chose not to move forward with the concept at the end of 2014.
Consultant
2009 - 2013
Change management expert with experience working across industries, including supporting BCG on key internal change initiatives. Select projects included: • Oversaw regional roll-out of BCG's global strategic initiative to improve project management and effectiveness; increased regional program penetration from 25% to 90% of offices in 6 months • Supported a major initiative to define future resourcing strategy across the value chain of an integrated energy company • Provided technical and logistical support to the Central Bank of Ireland during the EU-mandated stress testing of the Irish banking system • Developed revised operating model for consumer goods company facing legal challenge related to their home based sales model
Private Equity Summer Associate
2008 - 2008
Evaluated investment opportunities for JLL Partners’ Fund V through in-depth company, competition and market analysis