# Echo

> Echo is a VC fund backing Web3, Cryptocurrency and Information Technology. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://x.com/echodotxyz

Echo is a VC fund focused on Web3 and Cryptocurrency. Echo provides lead investors the capability to establish groups for the purpose of sharing their investment opportunities.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Web3 | 3 | 21% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 21% |
| Finance | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 21% |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 14% |
| Sweden | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charms | Charms AI is an on‑chain mobile application focused on AI characters with persistent memory and user‑facing economies. The platform allows creators to build AI characters that can maintain long‑term conversational context and have their own wallets and tokenized assets, while users interact with, back, and trade around those characters. It sits atthe intersection of AI‑driven interaction, gaming‑style engagement, and blockchain‑based tokenization, with the overall design geared toward converting user attention and interaction into on‑chain economic flows. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Fireplace | Fireplace is a trading terminal platform that combines marketplaces, pricing, and execution by using real-time data, graphing and trade processing. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| RateX | RateX is the operator of a decentralized exchange platform designed for yield trading. The company provides leveraged yield trading, earning, and synthetic assets akin to perpetual futures contracts. | $7M | Seed | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Fluent Labs | Fluent Labs is a blockchain development company. It aims to simplify blockchain development and enhance compatibility across different virtual machines. | $2.2M | Seed | Jul 18, 2025 |  |
| Towns | Towns is an on-chain messaging platform co-founded by the creator of Houseparty and Meerkat. | $3.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| Silhouette Exchange | Silhouette is a privacy-focused decentralized trading protocol integrated with the Hyperliquid ecosystem. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 06, 2025 |  |
| assisterr | Assisterr is building an AI tokenization stack to ensure fair compensation for data owners and contributors. The platform manages the entire lifecycle of SLM training, enabling features like data provenance tracking, fine-tuning, and the launch of SLM-powered Agents. Web3 component allows data owners to contribute their data and expertise todomain-specific SLMs and capture the value from such contributions. | $2.8M | Seed | May 30, 2025 |  |
| Ducat Protocol | Ducat Protocol allows users to borrow UNIT using BTC as collateral within a non-custodial system, providing full control over their funds. The platform offers risk-based borrowing, allowing users to adjust their collateralization ratios according to risk preferences. Once borrowed, UNIT can be used within the BTC-Fi ecosystem, with the option torepay and unlock the BTC collateral. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Giza | Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design. | $5.2M | Seed | May 15, 2025 |  |
| Gata | Gata uses data technology to develop superintelligence and to ensure its alignment with human objectives. | $4M | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Base Ecosystem Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/base-ecosystem-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amber Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amber-ai) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Animoca Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Manifold](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manifold-59e5) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [WAGMI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wagmi-ventures-3757) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anti Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anti-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Echo invest in?

Echo invests primarily in Web3, Cryptocurrency and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Echo last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Echo closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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