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New Investment – Manhole Metrics At the dawn of the AI-era, who will win and who will lose? Echo River’s latest investment in founder Will Dubin’s ManholeMetrics expands on the “digitizing water information” thesis. Echo River has long sought to invest in companies that monitor and collect the data using real-time, in-situ sensors. These companies will be able to build a moat around the ownership and control of the data, while leveraging AI as a tool to process the data into

Which Innovations Will Shape the Next Generation of Data Centers? This was the question our Tiger Team was focused on answering in this new report from Echo River Capital. The answers will shape our investment targets in the coming years to make the inevitable AI transformation more sustainable. Find the report here. Emerging technologies for cooling data centers were the focus for our Summer 2025 industry scan. Primary authors were summer associates Clara Drysdale (Stanford

New Investment in Solidec Solidec signifies our first investment into an entirely new class of transformative technology: harnessing water for climate-friendly chemicals. This is an extension of Echo River’s “decarbonizing water” efforts with the potential to generate over one gigaton of avoided greenhouse gas emissions. (That’s nine zeros worth!) Solidec aims to replace chemicals that are currently refined from fossil fuels with its green chemistry platform to generate eve

Unintended Consequences: The Roman Example History often provides stark warnings about the unintended consequences of technological innovation. Perhaps no example is more pertinent to our modern concerns about plastics than the Roman Empire's extensive use of lead pipes in their water systems. The Romans were masterful engineers who created one of the ancient world's most sophisticated water systems. Their aqueducts and plumbing network, which extensively used lead pipes (kno

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