# Eghosa Omoigui

> Eghosa Omoigui is a seed investor at Dekko (San Francisco) backing Advertising and Big Data. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dekko](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dekko)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/eghosaomoigui
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/EghosaO
- Website: https://x.com/EghosaO

Eghosa Omoigui is a seed investor at Dekko in San Francisco focused on Advertising and Big Data. Eghosa Omoigui is the founder and Managing General Partner of EchoVC Partners (a seed & early-stage technology venture capital firm bridging Silicon Valley & underserved emerging markets), EchoVC Pan-Africa Fund, a seed-stage tech VC fund focused on sub-Saharan Africa & EchoVC+, an early-growth-stage VC vehicle focused on emergingmarkets including Africa. Before this, Eghosa was with Intel for nearly 10 years and his last role was as Intel Capital Director, 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 in the US, EU & Asia. Omoigui also drove ICap's stage-agnostic investment focus on next generation semantic technologies, smart data and the realtime web. Eghosa was personally responsible for (developing supporting theses for and) sourcing investment opportunities in various companies including AdMob, Jaiku, Powerset, Facebook, LinkedIn, Teracent, Qik and Pandora.Eghosa has advised SWIFT (the inter-bank consortium) on technology innovation for financial services (InnoTribe), is a member of the ASTIA Venture Advisory Board (an organization focused on mentoring and supporting women entrepreneurs), was a winner of the Moss-Adams/ASTIA Women Entrepreneur Mentor of the Year award, and is a Kauffman Fellowship and Pipeline Angel Fellowship Mentor.Representative investments include Lifebank, Migo, Frontier Car Group, SystemOne, Gro Intelligence and KBox.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 5 | 36% |
| Big Data | 2 | 14% |
| Education | 2 | 14% |
| Social Media | 2 | 14% |
| Predictive Analytics | 2 | 14% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 29% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 64% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 14% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Myria | Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web tofind clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| TRADE X | TRADE X offers Dealers an interactive and fully encompassing global automotive trading platform. | $10M | Private Equity | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| WorldCover | WorldCover protects farmers around the world from droughts, by offering satellite-enabled insurance delivered with mobile money. Founded by MIT computer science and finance professionals, WorldCover is building an insurance platform to address the $100 billion in climate risks facing the world today. WorldCover's platform improves food andincome security for smallholder farmers in developing countries. More than 70% of the 2.5 billion people living at the “base of the pyramid” throughout the world rely on agriculture for income and sustenance. | $6M | Series A | May 03, 2019 |  |
| Kukua | Our entertainment and technology platform creates magical learning experiences for children and families, centred around a universe of proprietary characters. We are the creators of the Super Sema franchise, brought to life through animated series, apps and toys. | $2.4M | Seed | Nov 08, 2018 |  |
| Hotels.Ng | Hotels.ng is an online travel agency specialising in hotel bookings within Nigeria.They allow clients to book hotel rooms online, provide comprehensive help and support to their clients and make the hotel booking process smooth and easy. They also provide hotel recommendations and reviews, making sure that their clients stay in good, clean andsafe hotels all over the country. | $1.2M | Series A | May 25, 2015 |  |
| SmartZip | SmartZip Analytics is a national leader in predictive marketing solutions for the real estate industry. Using patent-pending predictive analytics, automated marketing campaigns and smart CRM follow-up tools, SmartZip makes big data actionable for real estate and mortgage lending professionals. Our flagship product, SmartTargeting, helps agents landmore listings by identifying and targeting the homeowners most likely to sell in any neighborhood across the U.S.As a rapidly growing startup backed by Intel Capital, SmartZip has assembled the most talented team and comprehensive predictive marketing platform in the industry. | $12M | Series B | Jul 23, 2014 |  |
| GraphScience | GraphScience is a full-service social data and Facebook advertising platform for Fortune 500 brands and retailers. Built on top of the Facebook ads API, GraphScience delivers the highest impact branding and revenue for top retailers, CPGs, and brands. The company's technology platform manages and analyzes big data and generates advertisingperformance at scale. Led by a team of social media advertising and technology innovators, GraphScience is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and backed by leading investors. | $2M | Series A | Mar 28, 2012 |  |
| Miso Media | Miso Media is a Venice Beach, CA startup who develops music education software. They use polyphonic note detection and realtime feedback to revolutionize sheet music and teach people how to play string instruments such as guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, and mandolin. Current products include Miso Music: Plectrum (Winner of 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt SFPeople’s Choice Award) and the Miso Strobe Tuner.They have strategic partnerships with Fender, Fender Music Foundation, Woodees, Deering Banjo, and Ko'Aloha Ukulele, as well as publishing deals for the production of digitized sheet music. | $600K | Seed | Dec 20, 2010 |  |
| RETAILIGENCE | Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 12, 2010 |  |
| Voxify | Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting inthe best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments. | $8M |  | Apr 21, 2010 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Palomar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/palomar-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sigma Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigma-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alchimia Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchimia-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Dekko

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Dekko was founded on the belief that society is entering an amazing transition in how they experience their technology. Smartphones and Tablets have ushered in the first taste of a "Post-PC" world, where their ability to connect to each other and to their favorite online services is mobile. They are beginning to experience entertainment,contextual information & personal interactions through natural interfaces that are not just "tiny screened PCs". Multi-sensor devices and The Internet of Things will provide the hardware foundation for true mobile operating systems. They are moving away from intermediated interfaces driven by keyboards and mice towards more natural and direct touch and voice interactions. Their most engaging sense, vision, will also experience a new natural interface, as content is placed in the world, in a truly believable manner.

1 contacts available at Dekko.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eghosa Omoigui | Lead Investor & Member, Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eghosa-omoigui |

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## FAQ

### What does Eghosa Omoigui invest in?

Eghosa Omoigui invests primarily in Advertising, Big Data and Education startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 Eghosa Omoigui last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eghosa Omoigui closed in Mar 2022. 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.

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