Echovane secures $1M in pre-seed funding for AI-native market research platform

Market research automation startup Echovane has closed a $1 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate development of its AI-native research platform. Titan Capital and Neon Fund co-led the investment, which will support expansion of the startup's AI agent infrastructure and research capabilities. Echovane was founded by Smriti Gupta, Vipul Nair and Himadri Roy, who previously worked on product development at Amazon, Stripe and Razorpay. Initially, the team aimed to build an AI agent to automate qualitative interviews, but discovered market research requires end-to-end automation. The startup now operates a team of AI agents handling the complete research process: study design, participant recruitment and verification, multimodal fieldwork execution, and data synthesis. The platform presents findings through interactive dashboards and insight reels rather than static reports, with full traceability from insights back to source data. Echovane has already been adopted by global enterprises including Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Haleon, Kantar and Trustly.