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Stages:

• Early
• Growth
• Seed

 

Industries:

Information Technology

Media & Digital Media

Software & Internet

 

Description:

EchoVC is a seed and early stage technology-focused venture capital fund focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams and business models in Sub-Saharan Africa and North America. Founder, Eghosa Omoigui, is a Silicon Valley-based technology-focused investor. Before Echo, Eghosa was with Intel for nearly 10 years and his last role was as Intel Capital Director, Strategic Investments, Consumer Internet & Semantic Technologies, where he acted as a senior investment professional focused on platform-agnostic consumer web services and digital media-based investment opportunities. The firm targets Consumer Internet, including Smart Graph platforms, apps and services (social/ mobile/ commerce /local /media /entertainment /gaming /OOH); Smart Data (software and services layer: Machine learning; Computer Vision; Predictive Analytics; Search & Discovery); Geo-extensible cross-pollination of technology platforms and business models; Women entrepreneurs; and Underdogs & Black Swans. Average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of the business. The team has over 80 years of experience.

 

Funds:

Fund Name	Amount	Date
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