char.gy
EV Charging
2open roles
Venture roundlatest round · Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
1backers · Zouk Capital
$2.6Mgrants · 4 grants · CORDIS
Overview
char.gy is a London electric vehicle charging company founded in 2016 that specialises in on-street charging for drivers without off-street parking. Its chargers are mounted on existing lamp posts and bollards, which keeps installation cost and street clutter down. The company works with local authorities across Britain to fund and operate residential networks.
Funding and backers
Latest round
Venture round
Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Grants
$2.6M
4 grants · CORDIS
Backers
1
Zouk Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 10
Raised a round Venture round
Jan 6
Raised a round Venture round
Jun 20, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
Mar 20, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
Oct 20, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 9, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Aug 24, 2023
Raised a round Venture round
May 9, 2023
Raised a round Venture round
Aug 19, 2022
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 28, 2022
Raised a round Venture round
Jun 25, 2021
Raised a round Venture round
Jun 1, 2020
Won a grant $317k · CORDIS
Jan 1, 2020
Won a grant $2.2M · CORDIS
Jan 1, 2019
Won a grant $26k · CORDIS
Jan 1, 2019
Won a grant $71k · CORDIS
Jan 31, 2017
Raised a round Venture round
2016
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.06%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | CHAR.GY LIMITED | its site |
| Registered | 9 Jun 2016 |
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Jobs
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
42/100
Stable
Open positions
2
0 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
74 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
40% ▲
Finance
20% ▼
Management
20% ▲
Operations
20% ▼
Financials
Total raised
$2.6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
16
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | — | Details |
| Grant | 2020 | $317k | Details |
| Grant | 2020 | $2.2M | Details |
| Grant | 2019 | $71k | Details |
| Grant | 2019 | $26k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2017 | — | Details |
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Shared investors
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News
char.gy advances EV charging expansion with Sitetracker
UK-based EV charging company, char.gy, has teamed up with Sitetracker to bolster EV charging network expansion across the UK.
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Report
Char.gy taps into lampposts to charge your electric car
If you have a garage with a power socket, an electric car makes an awful lot of sense. If you park on the street, however, the infrastructural challenge of keeping your electron-powered vehicle topped up becomes complicated enough that perhaps sticking to
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Char.gy taps into lampposts to charge your electric car
If you have a garage with a power socket, an electric car makes an awful lot of sense. If you park on the street, however, the infrastructural challenge of keeping your electron-powered vehicle topped up becomes complicated enough that perhaps sticking to
Read more
Report
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Coventry
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London
United Kingdom
HQ
3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
Coventry
United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
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