Echo Laboratories, a startup microscope maker, has closed a $2 million funding round led by Tech Coast Angels (TCA). The round was completed in less than two months and was said to be the Angel network’s largest funding round for the year. Tech Coast Angels is one of the largest and most active angel investor networks in the nation, leading funding for seed-stage and early-stage companies across all industries in Southern California.
The San Diego-based Echo Laboratories saw its funding round ceiling raised from $500,000 as interest in the investment increased. The round was spearheaded by TCA deal leads, Annie Mak and Dean Rosenberg.
The company’s microscope, Revolve, is described as revolutionizing microscopy, integrating the functionality of an upright and an inverted microscope with tablet and cloud-based technologies.
“As a scientist who has 20 years of experience and goes through all the learning curves of cutting edge technologies, it was exciting for me to see Echo Labs challenging the status quo of microscopy and bringing in advanced usability of the 21st century,” said Annie Mak, co-deal lead investor for TCA. “Revolve is user-friendly and very intuitive, so scientists can just focus on the biology under the lenses rather than the technicalities of operating a microscope.”
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