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Founders:<\/b> Hugo Tilmouth, Hakeem Buge, and Charlie Baron
\nFounded:<\/b> 2017
\nWebsite:<\/b> www.chargedup.green<\/a><\/p>\n

Hugo Tilmouth was at Lord’s Cricket Ground, expecting a phone call for an important job interview – but his phone was dying.<\/p>\n

After buying a portable charger from a cornershop, he decided he didn’t need that new job. Instead, the then-23-year-old started ChargedUp, which provides portable charging packs to anyone with a smartphone.<\/p>\n

All you need to do is download the app, see which of the company’s locations is nearest you, scan a QR code, and then you’re free to take a battery pack for £1 per hour, or £3 for the day. Just drop it off at a different ChargedUp station when you’re done.<\/p>\n

The company – which now has more than 2,000 locations in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands – compares the idea to the rentable bicycles you can find all over London.<\/p>\n

This sums up the innovative aspect of ChargedUp: you can take the charging pack with you. No longer will you have to wait impatiently at a charging port. Just pick it up and go.<\/p>\n

And since the charging packs are powered by Octopus Energy, ChargedUp is able to supply users with 100% green power.<\/p>\n

The company has also joined the fight against COVID-19, creating a company called CleanedUp that has supplied more than 3,000 hand sanitising stations to places across the UK, from the London Underground to Costa and NHS buildings.<\/p>\n

With their product range expanding, revenue coming in from battery rental, sponsorship from large corporates, and advertising, ChargedUp’s model seems pretty secure. After all, everyone needs power.<\/p>\n

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