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Echoecho Media Inc

http://www.echoecho.me/

Last activity: 31.05.2012

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Echoecho Mobile is positioned to tap into the fast-growing LBS and Mobile apps markets – with cutting edge, cross-platform mobile solutions. The company's cornerstone product is an open API, location sharing system (called echoecho) that runs on all leading smartphone platforms - Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile. Echoecho solves a real, immediate and recurring problem for consumers by asking and answering the question "Where are you?" in a fast, simple and secure way. By offering an open API to third parties, echoecho also solves this problem for web developers and business customers.

Echoecho’s unique approach to location sharing simplicity and privacy has earned it a growing user base and some high profile fans amongst tech blogs and smartphone OS developers.

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Location: United States, California, Hermosa Beach

Employees: 1-10

Total raised: $1.5M

Funding Rounds 2

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
08.05.2012	-	$750K	Bullpen Ca...
08.09.2011	Seed	$750K	-

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31.05.2012	Flikdate Announces The World’s First Mobile Live Video Dating Service	Until now, online and mobile video dating has mostly been about looking at video clips. Flikdate for iOS, however, is all about live video calls, making it feels more like a mix of Chatroulette and Match.com than the current crop of video d...
16.05.2012	Where ‘Where are you?’ is: The future of location and discovery	Amber Case of Geoloqi (Photo by Kris Krug) “There’s a graveyard of geo experiments,” says Amber Case. She’s the CEO and co-founder of Geoloqi, a company that helps mobile developers integrate, track and measure their users’ location data, a...
07.05.2012	Google Ventures-Backed Location-Sharing Service EchoEcho Raises $750k From Bullpen, PROfounders	EchoEcho is one of the more useful location-based applications on the market today. Instead of focusing on check-ins and deals, the application simply makes it easy for you to find out where your friends are and lets you set up a meeting wi...
06.03.2012	All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble	It’s turning into a royal rumble at SXSW — the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming. What’s worse, they’re often so similar in nature, so it’s...
28.02.2012	Apps Round-up From The Streets Of Barcelona	We’ve been trawling Barcelona for apps and startups during Mobile World Congress, so here’s a little round-up of some of those that have been plying their wares – many of whom don’t have the cash to exhibit at the official Congress, but who...
09.09.2011	Funding roundup - week ending 09/09/11	Seed to late, consumer to business: the capital is flowing Seed-stage Location-sharing app Echoecho won the support of Google Ventures and UK-based venture firm PROfounders Capital in the form of $750K in seed funding. Lanyrd.com, the soci...
09.09.2011	Echoecho raises $750K from Google Ventures, lets you find your friends	Echoecho, a mobile application to help you find your friends, announced a $750,000 seed round from Google Ventures and UK-based venture capital firm PROfounders today. Have you ever been in an airport looking for a friend or get lost at a c...
09.09.2011	Echoecho raises $750K from Google Ventures, lets you find your friends	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Echoecho, a mobile application to help you find your friends, announced a $750,000 seed round from Google Ventures and UK-based venture...
08.09.2011	What you need to know - 09/08/11	Facebook revenue at $1.6 billion for first half; Google Offers is successful, expands to more cities Backupify, provider of data protection and management services for cloud-based applications, secured $5 million in Series B funding led by ...
08.09.2011	Google Ventures backs location-sharing app Echoecho	The company raises a $750K seed round I hate that awkward moment when you go to meet someone at a restaurant, but then you get there and wonder if they’re already seated at a table, waiting for you, or if you got there before them. You do a...
08.09.2011	Echoecho Raises $750K	Santa Monica- and London-based Echoecho, which is developing a service to provide location information to your friends via a mobile application, announced today that it has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round. The round came from Google...
08.09.2011	Echoecho Closes $750K Seed Funding	Echoecho, a Los Angeles and London-based developer of a location-based mobile application for finding friends in the real world, has closed $750k in seed funding. Investors include Google Ventures and PROfounders Capital. The company intend...
15.03.2011	Earthquakes and other disasters: Apps for news and advice	Article content As Japan reels in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit it last week, around the world people are after everything from news of the areas affected by the disaster to advice on earthquake preparedness. H...
10.03.2011	EchoEcho: Vancouver company fine tunes location-based service	Article content When Cea Person is looking for her husband Remy Kozak, she doesn’t have to call or text him. A click on an app on her iPhone and Kozak’s face appears on the screen, pinpointed to a location on a Google map. If he’s nearby, s...
10.03.2011	EchoEcho: Vancouver company personalizes location-based service	Article content When Cea Person is looking for her husband Remy Kozak, she doesn’t have to call or text him. A click on an app on her iPhone and Kozak’s face appears on the screen, pinpointed to a location on a Google map. If he’s nearby, s...
24.02.2011	Find out where to meet friends with Echoecho	Everyone has been in that situation — stuck in a back-and-forth texting war with a friend deciding where to meet for coffee or lunch. It can be a bit of a hassle. Echoecho is trying to make that process a little easier by showing where near...
03.09.2010	Google Streamlines Its Privacy Policy. Should Facebook Be Next?	Location-based service Echo Echo recently posted the above image to their blog in a (successful) attempt to garner some media attention as the debate around online privacy continues to rage. As extreme as their“If Mark Zuckerberg Cared Abou...
02.09.2010	Texting: It’s Not Just for Teenagers Anymore	Lately, the discussion about texting has mostly focused on teenagers, who now often send hundreds of text messages per day. While voice calling is still the primary use of cell phones for adults, almost three quarters of all adults in the U...
27.06.2010	Why We Check In: The Reasons People Use Location-Based Social Networks	Services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others make it easy to post your physical location to the Web – but what makes people want to do that at all? Fifteen-month-old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new users every week, and Facebook has made i...
17.02.2010	PleaseRobMe and the Dangers of Location-Based Social Networks	Location-based social networks like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Google Buzz are currently among the fastest growing new mobile services. All of these apps have one thing in common: they encourage you to share your current location w...
04.02.2010	Apple Gets a Patent for Sharing Location Data During Calls	Apple just received a very interesting patent for a method of sharing location data during a phone call. Assuming that Apple implements this idea in its phones, you could soon press a button during a phone call on your iPhone and request lo...
25.01.2010	Echoecho: Locating Your Friends Made Easy	Echoecho is a location-based mobile application that wants to make it easier for you to locate your friends, family members and colleagues in the real world. Echoecho only tries to get you to answer one straightforward question: Where are y...

Echoecho Media Inc

Funding Rounds 2

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