EchoVC Partners is a Lagos, Nigeria based venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Eghosa Omoigui. The firm focuses on the internet, digital media, mobile, software, tech-enabled services, e-commerce, digital media, content and advertising sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and North America.
The firm specializes in seed, early-stage and growth-stage investments. The notable investment portfolio of EchoVC Partners includes Easyshop Easycook, Kukua, LifeBank, Lori Systems, myPadi, PayJoy, QuickBus, SystemOne, WorldCover. As of January 2020, EchoVC Partners has made 49 investments and had 25 exits.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Zerply is a company founded by James Bennett, Christofer Karltorp and Taaniel Jakobs.
PayJoy is a software development company offering a mobile digital platform to purchase new smartphones and receive loans using their smartphone as collateral.
MediaSpike is a company founded by John McCrea, Blake Commagere and Daniel Dodd.
Associated investment funds
People
Adeola Agbaje-Dosekun
Analyst, Investments & Portfolio Operations
Aima Nwafor-Ohiwerei
Senior Analyst, Research & Portfolio Operations
Damilola Thompson
Senior Counsel, Legal, Compliance & Corporate Development
Deji Sasegbon
Director, Platform & Portfolio Operations
Eghosa Omoigui
General Partner
Eunice Chou-Omoigui
Head of Incubation & Product Development
Fisayo Durojaye
Associate, Investments & Portfolio Operations
Olutosin Oni
Principal, Investments
Saeed Seghosime
Analyst, Investments & Portfolio Operations
Taiwo Kamson Ketiku
Vice President, Investments
Tito Cookey-Gam
Analyst, Investments & Portfolio Operations
Tsendai Chagwedera
Associate Principal & Regional Head, East Africa
Usman Sotunde
Corporate Attorney, Legal, Compliance and Corporate Development
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Easyshop Easycook
Kukua
LifeBank
Lori Systems
myPadi
PayJoy
QuickBus
SystemOne
WorldCover
References
Company attributes
Venture Capital Firm attributes
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Contributors
- 1
Lax Mariappan
Technopreneur, Open source enthusiast, author, speaker. Co-founder of Eternus Global. Crafting applications for the medical industry. - 2
Jed Christiansen
Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 3
Melanie Manipula
Researcher, writer and a former librarian - 4
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 5
Henry Ogolla
Passionate about reading and writing. - 6
Aime Anne Nisay
QA Engineer of web and mobile applications