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eConnect
👤 Henry Valentino (Sold his telecom firm in 1999, moved to Las Vegas to sell video bandwidth, then spent years inside casino surveillance rooms.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
Casinos already own thousands of cameras. eConnect adds the AI that recognizes who just walked through the door.
Will it work? · our read
Earned, not funded. Sixteen years to about $10M with no equity sold. The vertical is narrow and regulated, but 350 casinos run it and only about 50 bought the AI. The upsell is already installed.
01How the money moves
Casino already runs thousands of cameras and POS terminals
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eConnect software plugs into those existing feeds
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Casino subscribes per property, module by module
02The numbers
About $10MStatedannual revenue (Jul 2025)
Jul 2025source:
approaching $10 million in revenue (Practical Founders episode write-up, Jul 2025)
Only about 1 in 7 casinos on eConnect's software has bought the facial recognition module. The headroom sits inside the existing base.
Host's write-up of the on-air interview: "approaching $10 million in revenue with hundreds of customers as a profitable business, with no outside equity funding."
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Practical Founders #151 (Jul 2025) — "approaching $10 million in revenue", profitable, hundreds of customers, no outside equity, $2 million venture debt raised and repaid.CDC Gaming (Apr 2024) — Valentino: "eConnect is in 350 casinos with their software today, and the facial recognition piece is in about 50 of those casinos."eConnect — "400+ clients"; transforms existing surveillance systems, no camera overhaul required.Las Vegas Review-Journal (Dec 2014) — origin story: POS Connect tested at McCarran airport restaurants, saving HMSHost 14 percent in year one; "eConnect doesn't sell that equipment, only the software".Biometric Update (Jan 2025) — rival Oosto sold to Metropolis for $125M after raising $352M.
Revenue is the host's wording in the Practical Founders #151 write-up (Jul 2025) summarizing Valentino's on-air disclosure — "approaching $10 million in revenue" — so STATED, not audited, and not a verbatim founder quote. We kept the vague phrasing rather than sharpening it into a fake-precise number; eConnect is private and files nothing public. The 350-casino and about-50 figures are Valentino's own words quoted by CDC Gaming in April 2024 and are now over two years old; "400+ clients" is the company's current self-report. The only price we found — $250,000 for The Cosmopolitan's initial system — sits in a 2014 Review-Journal story, so we did not present it as current pricing; eConnect publishes no price list. The COVID pivot to entrance security is documented on the episode page and in CDC Gaming; our framing of it as a move from back office to front door is [our read]. Rival bars are [our read] of reach inside casino venues, not revenue. Every page cited here was fetched and string-checked; the founder's LinkedIn returned 999 to us and is included only as the link the podcast host published. We never score you.