AI-Native Market Research Startup EchoVane Raises $1M

Agentic artificial intelligence startup EchoVane has closed a $1 million pre-seed funding round to speed up development of its AI-native market research platform. Titan Capital and Neon Fund co-led the round, which will help the startup build out its AI agent infrastructure and enhance its research capabilities.

From interview bots to full research ownership

EchoVane was co-founded by Smriti Gupta, Vipul Nair and Himadri Roy, who previously worked on product development at Amazon, Stripe and Razorpay. The team started with a narrow goal – an AI agent that could interview humans for qualitative research. But after building the first prototype, they realised a smart interview moderator alone could not fix the real bottlenecks.

Research projects need recruiters, panel vendors, moderators, translators and data analysts, and researchers often spend more time on logistics than on insights. When companies try to speed things up, quality suffers from poor screening, professional respondents and even fraud. That is why EchoVane decided to own the entire process, from the initial brief to decision-ready answers.

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Agents that run the whole study

EchoVane’s team of AI agents handles research end-to-end – designing studies, recruiting and verifying participants, executing multimodal fieldwork and synthesising qualitative and quantitative data. Instead of a static report, findings appear in an interactive dashboard with insight reels, and every insight can be traced back to its source, chief executive Gupta said.

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Despite being bootstrapped until now, the platform has been adopted by global enterprises including Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Haleon, Kantar and Trustly. “Echovane turned a month of product research into just two days,” said Trustly chief product officer Adam D’arcy.

What the funding will build

Chief technology officer Nair said the funding will deepen the agent infrastructure, expand multimodal capabilities and strengthen the global participant network. The startup now aims to help businesses reach difficult-to-contact demographics anywhere in the world without compromising on quality. For researchers drowning in logistics, agents that run the whole study are an easy sell.