Sector:
Cleantech
Country:
United Kingdom
Year
2025
Short Description
Rightcharge streamlines EV charging cost management for corporate fleets by unifying home and on-the-road charging reimbursements into a single automated platform.
Founders
Charlie Cook
,
Founder & CEO
Kevin Ikelle
,
CTO
Why we invested
Rightcharge reflects our belief that energy transition only works if the financial infrastructure keeps pace. As fleets electrify Europe, reimbursement and payment rails can’t remain manual nor fragmented. This is fintech meeting climate reality at the infra layer, foundational, with a highly scalable model and led by a founder who deeply understands the problem they’re going for. Exactly the kind of company we want to back at BW.
Founder Story
Charlie Cook
,
Founder & CEO
Charlie grew up with a front-row seat to the family business started by his grandfather. Drawing on the grit and work ethic of the South Wales coalfields, his grandfather built an independent business of his own. Watching that journey gave Charlie an early education in entrepreneurship, and for as long as he can remember, he’s known he wants to run a company. Studying civil engineering gave him structure and problem-solving skills, but a year in Australia in 2013, studying climate science, reshaped his worldview. He saw climate change as a vast, systemic challenge that would demand a historic transformation of energy and transport. He wanted to be a part of shaping that shift.
His path ran through some of the most complex systems in the world. At CERN in Geneva, he worked on the feasibility of a 100km successor to the Large Hadron Collider. To move closer to commercial decisions, he enrolled in a Master’s in Climate, Management and Finance at Imperial Business School, London.
He then joined Octopus Energy, which at the time was a 50-person challenger. There, he became a founding team member of Octopus Electric Vehicles and led their EV charging effort. Seeing firsthand how confusing and fragmented the transition to electric vehicles was for ordinary drivers and fleets, he had finally found his problem to solve.
Rightcharge is Charlie’s answer to that problem. He recognised that for fleets to truly scale, they needed a comprehensive EV charging payment platform. The software tackles the hardest part first: it collects all home charging data, using AI to ignore private use and reimbursing employees directly to their energy bill to remove any risk of debt. Crucially, it combines this with public charging access, consolidating every session at home or on the road, into one monthly bill. This precision allows fleets to cut costs by 90% and carbon by 30% while eliminating fraud. As a result, businesses are transitioning their vehicles to EVs faster than ever before.
Charlie grew up with a front-row seat to the family business started by his grandfather. Drawing on the grit and work ethic of the South Wales coalfields, his grandfather built an independent business of his own. Watching that journey gave Charlie an early education in entrepreneurship, and for as long as he can remember, he’s known he wants to run a company. Studying civil engineering gave him structure and problem-solving skills, but a year in Australia in 2013, studying climate science, reshaped his worldview. He saw climate change as a vast, systemic challenge that would demand a historic transformation of energy and transport. He wanted to be a part of shaping that shift.
His path ran through some of the most complex systems in the world. At CERN in Geneva, he worked on the feasibility of a 100km successor to the Large Hadron Collider. To move closer to commercial decisions, he enrolled in a Master’s in Climate, Management and Finance at Imperial Business School, London.
He then joined Octopus Energy, which at the time was a 50-person challenger. There, he became a founding team member of Octopus Electric Vehicles and led their EV charging effort. Seeing firsthand how confusing and fragmented the transition to electric vehicles was for ordinary drivers and fleets, he had finally found his problem to solve.
Rightcharge is Charlie’s answer to that problem. He recognised that for fleets to truly scale, they needed a comprehensive EV charging payment platform. The software tackles the hardest part first: it collects all home charging data, using AI to ignore private use and reimbursing employees directly to their energy bill to remove any risk of debt. Crucially, it combines this with public charging access, consolidating every session at home or on the road, into one monthly bill. This precision allows fleets to cut costs by 90% and carbon by 30% while eliminating fraud. As a result, businesses are transitioning their vehicles to EVs faster than ever before.
Sector:
Cleantech
Country:
United Kingdom
Year
2025
Short Description
Rightcharge streamlines EV charging cost management for corporate fleets by unifying home and on-the-road charging reimbursements into a single automated platform.
Founders
Charlie Cook
,
Founder & CEO
Kevin Ikelle
,
CTO
Why we invested
Rightcharge reflects our belief that energy transition only works if the financial infrastructure keeps pace. As fleets electrify Europe, reimbursement and payment rails can’t remain manual nor fragmented. This is fintech meeting climate reality at the infra layer, foundational, with a highly scalable model and led by a founder who deeply understands the problem they’re going for. Exactly the kind of company we want to back at BW.
Founder Story
Charlie Cook
,
Founder & CEO
Charlie grew up with a front-row seat to the family business started by his grandfather. Drawing on the grit and work ethic of the South Wales coalfields, his grandfather built an independent business of his own. Watching that journey gave Charlie an early education in entrepreneurship, and for as long as he can remember, he’s known he wants to run a company. Studying civil engineering gave him structure and problem-solving skills, but a year in Australia in 2013, studying climate science, reshaped his worldview. He saw climate change as a vast, systemic challenge that would demand a historic transformation of energy and transport. He wanted to be a part of shaping that shift.
His path ran through some of the most complex systems in the world. At CERN in Geneva, he worked on the feasibility of a 100km successor to the Large Hadron Collider. To move closer to commercial decisions, he enrolled in a Master’s in Climate, Management and Finance at Imperial Business School, London.
He then joined Octopus Energy, which at the time was a 50-person challenger. There, he became a founding team member of Octopus Electric Vehicles and led their EV charging effort. Seeing firsthand how confusing and fragmented the transition to electric vehicles was for ordinary drivers and fleets, he had finally found his problem to solve.
Rightcharge is Charlie’s answer to that problem. He recognised that for fleets to truly scale, they needed a comprehensive EV charging payment platform. The software tackles the hardest part first: it collects all home charging data, using AI to ignore private use and reimbursing employees directly to their energy bill to remove any risk of debt. Crucially, it combines this with public charging access, consolidating every session at home or on the road, into one monthly bill. This precision allows fleets to cut costs by 90% and carbon by 30% while eliminating fraud. As a result, businesses are transitioning their vehicles to EVs faster than ever before.
Charlie grew up with a front-row seat to the family business started by his grandfather. Drawing on the grit and work ethic of the South Wales coalfields, his grandfather built an independent business of his own. Watching that journey gave Charlie an early education in entrepreneurship, and for as long as he can remember, he’s known he wants to run a company. Studying civil engineering gave him structure and problem-solving skills, but a year in Australia in 2013, studying climate science, reshaped his worldview. He saw climate change as a vast, systemic challenge that would demand a historic transformation of energy and transport. He wanted to be a part of shaping that shift.
His path ran through some of the most complex systems in the world. At CERN in Geneva, he worked on the feasibility of a 100km successor to the Large Hadron Collider. To move closer to commercial decisions, he enrolled in a Master’s in Climate, Management and Finance at Imperial Business School, London.
He then joined Octopus Energy, which at the time was a 50-person challenger. There, he became a founding team member of Octopus Electric Vehicles and led their EV charging effort. Seeing firsthand how confusing and fragmented the transition to electric vehicles was for ordinary drivers and fleets, he had finally found his problem to solve.
Rightcharge is Charlie’s answer to that problem. He recognised that for fleets to truly scale, they needed a comprehensive EV charging payment platform. The software tackles the hardest part first: it collects all home charging data, using AI to ignore private use and reimbursing employees directly to their energy bill to remove any risk of debt. Crucially, it combines this with public charging access, consolidating every session at home or on the road, into one monthly bill. This precision allows fleets to cut costs by 90% and carbon by 30% while eliminating fraud. As a result, businesses are transitioning their vehicles to EVs faster than ever before.