ECA Ventures
VC Fund
Sherman Oaks, United States
ECA Ventures is a VC fund in Sherman Oaks focused on Gaming and Sports. ECA is a seed and early stage investor in technology based companies. Our current areas of focus include but not limited to mobile products, online gaming, social media, cloud-based services, location-based services and online communications.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries ECA Ventures invests in
Stages ECA Ventures invests in
Countries ECA Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Damien Petty
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Mark Dyne
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Daniel Chan
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 1 (25%)
- Sports 1 (25%)
- Content 1 (25%)
- FinTech 1 (25%)
- Finance 1 (25%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (50%)
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Series F 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Damien Petty
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
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Mark Dyne
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
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Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
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Daniel Chan
Senior Analyst
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Senior Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Howard Ko
Team Member
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Team Member | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Joseph Miller
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Influential
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Influential is an A.I. social data and conversion platform that partners with IBM Watson for influencer marketing and technology. Leveraging a network of over 1 Million social media influencers, Influential's technology powers seamless talent discovery, comprehensive brand safety, and creative and execution services. Through strategicpartnerships with first and third-party data providers, Influential's Optimized Paid Media offering enables bespoke targeting and measurement solutions, including both online and offline attribution, such as sales lift, TV tune-in lift, foot traffic, as well as brand lift studies. Influential works with Fortune 500 brands, including Walmart, McDonald’s, Pepsi, NFL, Nestlé, General Mills, Toyota, Samsung, and Sony Pictures. With offices in Los Angeles, NYC, and Las Vegas, Influential is a developer partner of IBM Watson, a strategic partner of WME and Oracle, and a Facebook and Instagram Marketing Partner. Influential has been featured in Forbes, WSJ, Ad Age, Venture Beat, INC., Fox News, Entrepreneur, Entertainment Tonight, HLN, Good Morning Britain, The Street, and Huffington Post.Influential specializes in Social Data, Demographics, Digital Media, Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Enterprise Technology, Ad Tech, Native, Mobile, Traffic, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, Creating Conversations, User Generated Content, Virality, Worldwide Trends, Organic Messaging, Mobile Apps, e-Commerce, Contest Entries. | $12M / Series B / Jun 14, 2018 | |
Lyft
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Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance.Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharingcompany in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population.Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California. | $1B / Series F / Dec 28, 2015 | |
FinTech Global Markets
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FinTech Global Markets is an tech-enabled investment bank that empowers companies to publicly fundraise from everyone, including accredited investors, international investors and the crowd. FlashFunders has built the technology and regulatory infrastructure to facilitate any type of distributed securities offering (including Reg A+, Reg D and RegCF). As a registered Broker-Dealer, Clearing Firm, Funding Portal and Transfer Agent, FlashFunders is an end-to-end resource for companies raising capital. FlashFunders was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA. | Seed / Nov 01, 2014 | |
FanDuel
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FanDuel, launched in July 2009, is the undisputed leader in the one-week fantasy sports industry. Offering fantasy sports for NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL FanDuel targets the 30+ million adult fantasy sports players in North America. Players draft fantasy sports teams at any time of the season in head-to-head or multi-player contests, paying an entryfee for each contest and vie for cash prizes. In 2013 the company awarded over $150m in prizes and is on course to award over $400m in 2014.The company currently has over 100 employees and is headquartered in New York. | $4M / Series B / Sep 07, 2011 |
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FAQ
What does ECA Ventures invest in?
ECA Ventures invests primarily in Gaming, Sports and Content startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at ECA Ventures?
The team at ECA Ventures includes Damien Petty (Vice President), Mark Dyne (Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer) and Daniel Chan (Senior Analyst), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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