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Company Profile
Company Name

PLUGO Inc.

Location

Osaki Bright Core 12F, 5-5-15 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-0001, Japan

Founded in

2018

Capital

2.9 Billion yen (Included capital reserve and loan ceiling)

Main business

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

Main citation bank

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
MUFG Bank

Management
Representative Director & CEO Naoki Okawa

Okawa Naoki

Graduated Keio University with Bachelor of Law.In 2002, joined Dentsu Inc. and engaged in marketing activities in the mobile market.In 2007, transferred to Interactive Program Guide Inc. (Current IPG Inc.) to engage in New business related to fusion of communications and broadcasting.In 2010, joined Okawa Screw Manufacturing Co., Ltd. , the family business, as Director.In 2013, went to Mexico to strengthen development and expand sales channels, establish a local subsidiary and a plant.In 2018, returned to Japan to assume the office of Representative President.In the same year, founded PLUGO Inc..In 2021, Retired from CEO of Okawa Screw manufacturing Co., Ltd and focused on CEO of PLUGO Inc.
CTO
- Chief Technology Officer

Okada Yuya

Graduated Keio University with Bachelor of Science around Bioinformatics
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
Non-executive Director
Outside Director

Tomohiro Kodama

April 1991
Joined Nippon Steel Corporation (currently Nippon Steel Corporation)
2001
Executive Vice President & Director, Digit Co., Ltd.
April 2004
Visiting Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology Graduate School, Toranomon Campus
July 2007
Part-time Director, ProFuture Inc. (incumbent)
2010
Representative Director, Practechs Inc.
March 2010
Representative Director, iGrow Inc.
March 2019
Executive Vice President & Director, INFORICH Inc.
April 2023
Executive Vice President & Corporate Officer, INFORICH Inc. (incumbent)
October 2023
Part-time Director, Personal Health Tech Inc. (incumbent)
Outside Auditor

Yasushi Kanbayashi

April 1991
Joined The Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd. (currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
November 2006
Executive Officer, Index Holdings, Inc.
January 2009
Executive Officer, DeNA Co., Ltd.
October 2020
Executive Officer, Renoveru Inc.
December 2022
Executive Officer, Japan Rugby Marketing Co., Ltd.
September 2024
Part-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Intelligent Wave Inc. (incumbent)
February 2025
Part-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, soeasy Inc. (incumbent)
March 2025
Part-time Director, Stroly Inc. (incumbent)
February 2026
Part-time Director, TimeBio Inc. (incumbent)
History
Jul. 2018

Established

Apr. 2019

A/C charger ”PLUGO WALL” machine 1 at Ibaraki Golf Club and started its evaluation

Jan. 2020

Announced and started sales of PLUGO BAR, a home-use plug-in charger

Apr. 2021

Launched Japan's first reservation service for destination-based EV charging

Sep. 2021

Established PLUGO DESIGN CENTER, first design hub by a charging service provider
Launched Japan’s first Green Charging® service

Sep. 2022

Announced PLUGO RAPID, a fast charger
Released My PLUGO app to the public

Mar. 2023

Signed basic agreement with NTT DOCOMO for GX collaboration

Apr. 2023

Formed EV charging partnership with Marriott International

Jun. 2023

Started sales of PLUGO BOX, a 6kW A/C charger

Jul. 2023

Started cloud-based charging solution PLUGO OPEN CHARGE LAB

Jan. 2024

Signed partnership and joint development agreement with Honda for public charging network

May. 2024

Started EV charging service at BMW Destination Charging Azabudai Hills Station

Dec. 2024

Redeveloped Premium Charging Alliance app for Porsche Japan and Volkswagen Group Japan

Jan. 2025

Signed joint demonstration agreement with Kygnus for EV charging business

Feb. 2025

Formed capital and business alliance with V-cube

Sep. 2025

Launched Japan’s first CHAdeMO-compliant plug & charge system “& GO™” (implemented in Honda's N-ONE e:)

Dec. 2025

Raised approx. JPY 800 million in Series A funding, totaling JPY 2.9 billion

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