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HeyCharge
Electric vehicle charging for buildings
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Cars
- Transport
- Electric Vehicles
- Environmental
- Maxvorstadt, Munich, Germany
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Company mission
To make electric vehicle charging ubiquitous and affordable, starting with retrofitting apartment buildings across Europe.
Our take
HeyCharge retrofits electric vehicle charging stations in places like parking lot buildings, apartment complexes, and vacation properties. Whereas the majority of existing charging tech requires an internet connection, which makes underground car parks a challenge, HeyCharge’s plug-and-play solution connects via Bluetooth.
The 2020 founded startup is the first to offer this kind of solution, and with a patent for its tech pending, it has the potential to become a major player in the growth of the electric vehicle market as a whole.
HeyCharge’s primary investor to date is BMW i Ventures, the VC arm of the BMW Group, which invests heavily in sustainable tech. This is a potentially huge partnership, as many of the world’s biggest automotive companies are pivoting into electric vehicle production, yet their sales prospects are impacted by a lack of suitable charging infrastructure.
By backing HeyCharge to expand its solutions across Europe, where it's focusing for the time being, BMW is boosting its own sales prospects, which in turn should increase demand for the startup's charging points.
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Company values
- Collaboration – We're capable of more when we work together
- Integrity – Do the right thing! Always!
- User-Oriented – Do what's right for the user, and everything else will follow
- Results – We value impact to the exclusion of optics and politics
- Scrappy – We do more with less wherever possible
- Green – A greentech company must lead by example so we optimize our carbon footprint where possible
- Diverse and Inclusive – You belong at HeyCharge by embodying these values, not by where you come from, how you look, or when you were born
- Transparency –We share and communicate openly and by default
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$4.7m
SEED
Aug 2021
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $5.1m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Chris Cardé
(CEO)Worked as a Technical Program Manager at Google in various senior roles in the automotive & mobility niche. Worked in this capacity on Android Auto, Better Mobility, and Google Maps Automotive. Former Mercedes-Benz Product Manager (Smart Drive iPhone App). Founded and was CEO of IoT-based sleep health company Bed Sense.
Dr. Robert Lasowski
(CBDO)Veteran mobility leader and Connected Cars PhD. Former Senior Product Manager at BMW, former CTO of Smart Mobility at ERGO Mobility Solutions (Munich RE Group), and former Executive Manager of Mobility Innovations at mobility services company SIXT.