AI-native market research automation startup Echovane raises $1M
Agentic artificial intelligence startup Echovane Inc. said today it has closed on a $1 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-native market research platform.
Titan Capital and Neon Fund co-led the round, which will help the startup to build out its AI agent infrastructure and enhance its research capabilities.
Echovane was co-founded by Smriti Gupta (pictured, center), Vipul Nair (left) and Himadri Roy (right), who previously spent time on product development for companies that included Amazon.com Inc., Stripe Inc. and Razorpay Inc. Originally, they had a much more narrow goal of developing an AI agent that could interview humans to speed up qualitative market research projects.
However, by the time they had developed their first prototype, the co-founders realized that a simple automated interview moderator wouldn’t be enough to solve the bottlenecks in market research. As Chief Executive Gupta noted, the slow pace of interviews is just one reason why so many projects are delayed.
