Shutdown
Mar 2025Arnaud Porterie posted that the team had taken the tough decision to stop Echoes HQ, indicating a shutdown/closure.
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Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Echoes HQ was a YC S21 engineering-analytics startup that helped engineering leaders connect day-to-day work to business goals and communicate that impact across the company. Public sources disagree on its HQ/founding year, and founders publicly said the company was being shut down in early 2025.
Primary product
Engineering analytics platform that maps engineering activity to business goals and intended outcomes
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Claymont, Delaware, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Engineering analytics / developer tools
Offices
Claymont, Delaware, United States (HQ)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Amsterdam, 1011 PL, Netherlands
Business model
B2B SaaS
Subscription software
Trial-based self-serve
Demo-led sales
Funding
Stage
Early-stage / accelerator-backed
Total raised
$125K
Latest round
Early Stage VC
Accelerator/Incubator (Y Combinator)
Aug 2021 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Founder and CEO
Work & culture
Public messaging emphasizes a developer-friendly, outcomes-focused culture: team-level reporting only, minimal engineer overhead, and avoiding individual performance surveillance. The product is framed around empathy between engineering and business stakeholders.
Compensation
No public salary bands, equity ranges, or compensation policy details were found.
Product & market
Pricing
Public pricing is not listed; the public site shows a 28-day trial and demo booking rather than transparent pricing pages.
Differentiators
- —Connects engineering work to business goals and intent
- —Team-level reporting rather than individual productivity scoring
- —Engineer-friendly workflow centered on GitHub/GitLab labels
- —Works across heterogeneous toolchains instead of forcing one workflow
- —Translates technical activity into language non-technical stakeholders can understand
Technology
Google Cloud
Golang
TypeScript
React
Python
LLMs
Customers
Engineering leaders
CTOs
CPOs
engineering managers
product-engineering organizations
teams using GitHub/GitLab/Jira/Linear
Competitors
LinearB
Jellyfish
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
~$5M ARR estimate (third-party estimate; public sources conflict on exact revenue confidence)
Signals & risks
Latest news
LinkedIn · Mar 2025
Founder Arnaud Porterie said the team had taken the difficult decision to stop Echoes HQ, which is the clearest public shutdown signal.
LinkedIn · Feb 2025
A former team member reshared Arnaud Porterie's closure note saying Echoes HQ was closing its doors after the YC batch and multiple pivots.
LinkedIn · Sep 2024
Arnaud Porterie described customer use cases where Echoes helped leaders make hiring and layoff-related decisions by clarifying engineering effort and business impact.
LinkedIn · Sep 2023
Echoes HQ announced embedded components that let teams export live widgets into third-party knowledge bases such as Notion or Confluence, starting with DORA metrics.
DEV Community · Sep 2022
The team described Echoes' value-centric and developer-friendly approach, emphasizing purpose over velocity and no individual metrics.
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