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Echo River Capital
Venture capital · Marin County, CA, United States · North America
Echo River Capital is a water technology investor that backs early stage companies worldwide. It invests only in companies that generate water-related environmental, human health or climate resilience benefits, and asks portfolio companies to report annually on impact metrics.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordswaterwater techclimateimpact investingsustainabilitysmart water
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Or find every investor that fitsEcho River Capital lists 19 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (43%), Space & Defense (14%) and Climate & Energy (11%). 50% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Imagine H2O, Elemental Impact and Burnt Island Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Echo River Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Echo River Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 19. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 49th | 19 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 78th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 77th | 43% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 43% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 14% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 11% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 3% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
| Fintech | 3% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Imagine H2O | 6 |
| Elemental Impact | 4 |
| Burnt Island Ventures | 3 |
| AWE Funds | 2 |
| Cool Climate Collective | 2 |
| Founders Factory | 2 |
| Jetstream | 2 |
| 3one4 Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers19100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Echo River Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Echo River Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 May 2026 | Series A |
Round details for Echo River Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Echo River Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
19 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgMonitor provides a farming decision-support tool that leverages machine learning to solve practical problems in agriculture. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aperture surfaces the markets where your capabilities create defensible value, then builds a prioritized, execution-ready pipeline to pursue them. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| CREW provides wastewater treatment facilities with a process intensification solution that improves performance, lowers costs, and permanently removes greenhouse gases. | Climate & EnergyAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Digital Paani provides a platform to manage water treatment plants and deliver safe and compliant operations | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Sept 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Epic Cleantec provides onsite water recycling solutions for the built environment | Real Estate & ConstructionSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Glanris is a bioenergy company that processes agricultural and forestry waste materials into low-cost electricity and biochar for various applications | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Hohonu deploys local water level sensors and software to help teams monitor flooding and act when water starts to matter. | FintechClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Irrigreen manufactures and sells smart in-ground sprinkler systems that water lawns precisely where needed, reducing water usage. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Kairospace provides space solutions, including products such as CubeSat structures and solar panels, and services like satellite deployment. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ManholeMetrics provides wastewater monitoring solutions using level sensors and software for real-time monitoring and predictive alerts | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Open Hydro provides software to help companies measure, allocate and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from water | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| PAGE Technologies makes field-deployable water and soil chemistry analyzers that deliver actionable real-time data. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Reath provides a platform that unifies EPR compliance, carbon modelling, and reusable packaging traceability for businesses | Space & DefenseSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Swan Systems provides software for water, nutrient, and precision irrigation management | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Uravu develops and implements water-positive cooling technology for data centers and industrial facilities | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Verdi Ag provides precision irrigation automation systems for farms and orchards. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Voda.ai helps water professionals turn predictive pipe and meter risk into defensible decisions to prevent failures, prioritize capital, and protect revenue. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Watergenics delivers real-time measurement of individual water chemistry parameters using AI-based technology | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Waterplan provides a platform for water-dependent industries to measure, report, and respond to water risks | Space & DefenseE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- echorivercap.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 May 2026
- Companies checked
- 19
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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