Echo – the world’s
first impact exchange

For companies to be traded on Echo, they need to be listed first. We call this process Onboarding. If you participate in an onboarding, you help to set the opening price for a newly listed company. As a reward, you will receive some of that company’s brand new immies – and you can start trading right away.

Echo was originally founded by René and Carl, a practitioner and a researcher. They founded Echo because of the bad state responsible and sustainable investment is in. There just is no good data around so that you can reliably put your money where the impact is. Instead: biased analyses and greenwashing everywhere.

The team continues to grow. Most recently, Julia has joined. She is in charge of design. Also Dennis, who is responsible for Echo’s IT and Anna as our new market designer. We all now work to successfully launch the world’s first impact exchange.
Made with a lot of optimism, confidence and creativity in Europe. Together, we build Echo.

First of all: thank you, we are very happy you like our approach. For sure there is one thing you can do for Echo. Spread the news. Like us on social media, invite friends to join and trade, write about us. Still not enough to do for you? No worries, we soon will post job opportunities. Leave your email to be the first to know.

Echo is a nymph from Ancient Greek Mythology. It was her curse that she could only repeat what other people had said before. We think this is not purely a curse. We need to make sure that the impact companies have is recorded, assessed, and repeated. This is our task – we make sure to live in a world where companies’ actions have echoes. Together, we can proudly say: we are Echo.

At Echo, we want to make everybody’s voice heard. For this reason, we check if you are human. We want real people, no bots on our trading platform. Moreover, everybody can only register once. This way we make sure there is no rough trading or other misuse of our platform.

Companies change the world in many ways. For this reason, we measure company impact in different dimensions: environment, education, equality, health, and corporate citizenship. All five dimensions are expressed in a single number: an immie’s price.  Of course there are other ways to categorize an organization’s impact (e.g. according to the UN Sustainable Development Goals). Our five dimensions are tailor-made to capture the impact companies are most likely to have.

To trade impact, you need a currency. Ours is called “echoes” (currency symbol: ∃) so that you and everybody else can start trading for free. The more people join, the better the market will be – and we will allow the ∃ token to be exchanged for real money. Once the ∃ token becomes exchangeable, it will be recorded on a blockchain. To make sure what’s yours remains yours.

Yes and no. All transactions on Echo will be recorded on a blockchain and we will have ∃ as our token. However, we are not just trying to be hyped as “the best crypto to buy right now”. To limit speculation, immy trading as well as our ICO and cryptocurrency trading will follow a strict protocol.

It is you. You jointly set the opening prices in a company’s onboarding. By buying and selling, you influence the impact certificate prices. You determine a company’s impact profile. Echo opens impact ratings to everybody. A trading platform for a better world. The Echo team only provides the technical infrastructure for the market. Echo is as neutral as its namesake.

No. You can join Echo without any costs. Once registered, you can participate in Onboardings. You will be rewarded with Echo tokens and your first immies. All set up to trade!

Echo is an online trading platform. Like other trading platforms, we will eventually charge trading fees. Also, the real-time ESG data we create about companies’ impacts is valuable for investors around the world.