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Echo River Capital

Echo River Capital is a water-focused venture capital that has backed 18 water companies since 2021. (don't) Waste Water rates its water commitment Anchor.

Anchor
Water Commitment
Type
Venture Capital
AUM
$3.6M
Founded
2021
HQ
474 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
Stage
Pre-Seed - Series B
Median round
$1.9M
Portfolio
18 cos

Water Commitment Score

Tier
Anchor
18 water companies · last deal 2026 · leads ~13% of rounds · High confidence
How this is scored ↗
as of Jun 2026 · no pay-to-rank

Compiled from official filings, third-party records, and direct intelligence from investors and founders, in Leviathan · recomputed monthly · as of Jun 2026.

How they invest

Pre-Seed6
Seed9
Series A3
Series B1
Median round$1.9Mrange $175K - $19M · 18 disclosed

Portfolio · 18 water companies

CREW Carbon
CREW Carbon installs on-site reactors at municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants t
$19MSeries A · 2026
Uravu Labs
Uravu Labs manufactures atmospheric water generation systems that employ patented hygroscopic d
$1.2M2025
Verdi
Verdi retrofits existing in-field irrigation valves with solar-powered, cloud-connected control
$4.7MSeed · 2025
PAGE Technologies
PAGE Technologies develops low-cost printed IoT sensors and an AI-driven cloud platform for con
$400KPre-Seed · 2025
Solidec
Solidec develops modular electrochemical reactors for on-site and on-demand production of hydro
$2MPre-Seed · 2025
Epic Cleantec
Epic Cleantec provides turnkey onsite wastewater treatment systems for high-density buildings t
$12MSeries B · 2024
Open Hydro
OpenHydro Group Ltd designs and manufactures tidal stream turbines for the generation of renewa
$600KPre-Seed · 2024
Watergenics
Watergenics manufactures plug-and-play inline sensors that fuse UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy with pr
$1.5M2024
Active Membranes
Active Membranes develops proprietary electrically conducting, electrochemically modulated poly
$2.3MSeed · 2024
Shower Stream
Shower Stream supplies a retrofittable IoT shower valve that combines flow- and temperature-sen
$265KLED Seed · 2024
Kairospace Technologies
Kairospace Technologies develops and commercializes advanced water treatment solutions using hy
$175KLED Pre-Seed · 2023
DigitalPaani
DigitalPaani offers an IoT-enabled SaaS platform with retrofit sensor-control hardware and mach
$1.2MSeed · 2023
Hohonu
Hohonu builds solar-powered, cellular/LoRa water-level stations that stream real-time tide, riv
$1.8MPre-Seed · 2023
Irrigreen
Irrigreen produces a patented ‘digital sprinkler’ that uses a single robotic nozzle, GIS mappin
$15MSeed · 2023
SWAN Systems
SWAN Systems provides cloud-based decision-support software that integrates soil-moisture data,
-2023
Gybe
Gybe provides a cloud platform that couples low-power optical IoT probes with patented spectral
-Seed · 2023
VODA.ai
VODA.ai is a cloud-based platform that uses various data sets to identify water pipes at highes
-2023
Glanris
Glanris manufactures carbon-negative filtration media from rice husks for use in industrial, mu
$1.8MLED Series A · 2022

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