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PLUGO Inc.
Osaki Bright Core 12F, 5-5-15 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-0001, Japan
2018
2.9 Billion yen (Included capital reserve and loan ceiling)
Planning, development and sales of EV chargers and IoT services
Maintenance and servicing of products
Dissemination of information related to the spread of EV
Formulation and management of the consortium’s business strategy and related tasks
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
MUFG Bank
Okawa Naoki
- Chief Technology Officer
Okada Yuya
In FY 2014, adopted as a MITOU Creator in MITOU Program by IPA METI(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), Japan
Also joined a project of programming linguistics and programming pedagogy and certificated MITOU Super Creator at the project in FY 2015
After that, engaged software development and product management in multiple mega venture companies
In 2021 joined PLUGO Inc. as a lead software engineer and assumed current position through VPoE on August 2022
Serving as a mentor and judge of MITOU junior in Mitou Foundation
- Chief Strategy Officer
Takahiro Hosoi
After that, joined Sony in 2002. Had multiple experience at various Sony group company, such as product marketing, sales, supply chain, e-commerce, digital marketing, brand strategy, Advertising, PR, direct store planning and operations, new business development, chief of SVP office. During that time, worked at Japan office, but also North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and led GTM strategy and organization reform and restructuring
Returned to Japan in 2019, took responsibility of global digital business and organization at PlayStation.
From July 2024, joined PLUGO Inc.
Established
A/C charger ”PLUGO WALL” machine 1 at Ibaraki Golf Club and started its evaluation
Announced and started sales of PLUGO BAR, a home-use plug-in charger
Launched Japan's first reservation service for destination-based EV charging
Established PLUGO DESIGN CENTER, first design hub by a charging service provider
Launched Japan’s first Green Charging® service
Announced PLUGO RAPID, a fast charger
Released My PLUGO app to the public
Signed basic agreement with NTT DOCOMO for GX collaboration
Formed EV charging partnership with Marriott International
Started sales of PLUGO BOX, a 6kW A/C charger
Started cloud-based charging solution PLUGO OPEN CHARGE LAB
Signed partnership and joint development agreement with Honda for public charging network
Started EV charging service at BMW Destination Charging Azabudai Hills Station
Redeveloped Premium Charging Alliance app for Porsche Japan and Volkswagen Group Japan
Signed joint demonstration agreement with Kygnus for EV charging business
Formed capital and business alliance with V-cube
Launched Japan’s first CHAdeMO-compliant plug & charge system “& GO™” (implemented in Honda's N-ONE e:)
Raised approx. JPY 800 million in Series A funding, totaling JPY 2.9 billion