New Search & Discovery Platform Lands Seed Funding

ECCO, a proprietary AI-powered platform to help consumers discover content, has closed a $7 million seed round with a $35 million valuation.

The funding round was led by Jeff Kearl of Pelion Venture Partners and also featured Propagate co-founders Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens and Shaquille O’Neal, among others.

ECCO is calling itself a universal “remote for streaming,” aggregating content from across the free and paid streaming ecosystem into a single AI-powered content search and discovery feed. Consumers can use descriptive prompts to search for shows. The platform was co-founded by Jeremy Greene and Janelle Greene, who have developed products for Facebook, Snapchat and Discord. Launched 21 days ago, the platform currently has over 21 million pieces of content dating back to 1940, showcasing 80,000 to 90,000 trailers daily and processing 30,000 to 40,000 daily search queries.

“ECCO is redefining how people discover and access streaming content by solving the fragmented search problem across services that has long frustrated audiences,” said Jeremy Greene, CEO and co-founder. “We’ve built the one system that all studios are backing, recognizing its potential to help drive additional user acquisition and revenue.”

“When we invest at an early-stage of a company’s life, we tend to over-index on the founder,” said Jeff Kearl, general partner at Pelion. “We perceived Jeremy to be visionary and execution oriented…in other words, a force of nature. We also believe the massive democratization and unbundling of content allows for new ways to imagine content discovery and search. Ecco’s initial product highlights what is possible by using AI to help people both find and discover the content they are searching for.”

“Jeremy and his team have created something truly outstanding with ECCO,” said Miguel Melendez, co-founder of entertainment venture company Westbrook, among the participants in the seed round. “It reimagines content discovery—making the process not just seamless, but genuinely enjoyable. Searching becomes intuitive, engaging, even fun. This is some of the most impressive technology I’ve seen in the entertainment space in years—it’s reshaping how audiences discover and connect with content.”

The funds will be used to accelerate user acquisition, enhance its proprietary AI search engine and expand content partnerships.