{"id":654544,"date":"2013-04-25T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pehub.com\/?p=198297"},"modified":"2013-04-25T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:00:15","slug":"ev-connect-raises-round-from-37-technology-jackrel-tech-coast-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654544","title":{"rendered":"EV Connect Raises Round From 37 Technology, Jackrel, Tech Coast, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

EV Connect<\/strong> said it raised an initial round of financing from 37 Technology Ventures, Jackrel Ventures, Tech<\/strong> Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Keiretsu Forum<\/strong> and individual investors. The integrator of electric vehicle charging stations offered no additional detail on the financing.<\/p>\n

PRESS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

EV Connect Closes Initial Round of Funding for Sales and Cloud-Based Technology Development<\/p>\n

EV Connect’s combination of services allows it to offer corporate and governmental customers their own centrally-managed electric vehicle charge station networks<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES, California, April 25, 2013\u2014 EV Connect, the leading full-service provider, manager, and integrator of electric vehicle (EV) charge stations for commercial and government locations, today announced\u00a0 closure of its initial round of financing.\u00a0 Funding came from 37 Technology Ventures, Jackrel Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Keiretsu Forum, and other key individual investors that recognize EV Connect for its huge growth potential, well-established market position, strong customer demand, and unique combination of partners, technology, and operating and support programs.<\/p>\n

Progressive companies, government and transit agencies, property owners, and leading hotel brands,\u00a0 select\u00a0 EV Connect to help define, install, operate, and maintain their network of electric vehicle charge stations.\u00a0 With this funding, EV Connect will expand its sales, marketing, and software development to capitalize on increasing customer demand.\u00a0 EV Connect will also build out its already-successful partnership program and fast-track strategic alliances with charge station manufacturers and network system providers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom 2011 to 2012, plug-in vehicle sales grew nearly 200 percent.\u00a0 I\u2019m impressed with EV Connect\u2019s market opportunity,” said Yuri Pikover, Tech Coast Angels.\u00a0 “EV Connect doesn’t make car charging hardware, rather, it focuses on its differentiated and defensible charge station deployment, management services, and proprietary cloud-based software platform.\u00a0 This unique combination of services allows EV Connect to offer customers their own branded or centrally-managed charge station network at all of their parking lots.”<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to make EV infrastructure more accessible than ever for all companies and organizations,” said Jordan Ramer, CEO, EV Connect.\u00a0 \u201cWe believe in the future, all parking spaces will offer EV charging\u2013and EV Connect will be there to integrate, operate and maintain them, as well as customize their customer-facing features.\u201d<\/p>\n

About EV Connect, Inc.
\nBusinesses and governmental organizations turn to EV Connect for a simple and cost-effective way to provide turn-key, customer-owned EV charging programs for their electric-vehicle-driving employees and constituents.\u00a0 EV Connect offers program design, hardware, deployment, network management, driver support, maintenance, and a software platform to allow for advanced customer-specific features. Collectively, EV Connect\u2019s team has over thirty-five years of EV charging experience and has deployed and managed thousands of charge stations. For more information visit www.EVConnect.com.<\/p>\n

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EV Connect said it raised an initial round of financing from 37 Technology Ventures, Jackrel Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Keiretsu Forum and individual investors. The integrator of electric vehicle charging stations offered no additional detail on the financing. PRESS RELEASE EV Connect Closes Initial Round of Funding for Sales and Cloud-Based Technology Development […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}