Curo

Curo (YC F24) helps electric fleets park and charge their vehicles anywhere, with the world’s largest private network of underutilized EV charging sites. Distributed fleets struggle to electrify at scale. EV charging can cost thousands of dollars and take years to install; even then, installation may not be feasible. EV charger utilization is painfully low, private chargers can't monetize effectively, and public chargers aren't set up for long-term, exclusive use. Curo's platform enables fleets to lease EV chargers from owners during underutilized times. Curo allows fleets to access immediately available and scalable charging with no upfront cost, and EV charging owners to increase revenue 5x safely and easily. Founders Kieran White and Andrew Porter have helped distribute one of the largest electric fleets at Tesla, encountering the charging problem firsthand and launched products at DraftKings. With Curo, they're pioneering the commercial EV charging system of tomorrow. Congrats to the team on the launch! ?? https://lnkd.in/gjVY8NHZ

?? Big news:?Curo has been selected for Y Combinator's F24 batch! ??? ?? What's Curo, you ask? We're revolutionizing EV fleet charging: - Problem: Electrifying distributed fleets is a massive challenge. Traditional EV charging solutions are expensive, time-consuming, and often unfeasible. Meanwhile, existing chargers sit idle for hours. - Solution: Curo is creating a platform that connects fleets with underutilized private EV chargers. Think of it as the Airbnb for EV charging! - Benefits: - For fleets: Immediate access to scalable charging with zero upfront costs - For charger owners: Up to 5x increase in revenue, safely and easily I'm incredibly proud of our team:?Kieran, Graham, Gaia, Bianca, Meg and Aitana. Your dedication and hard work have brought us this far! Huge shoutout to our early supporters, especially Julia, Jordan, Kashif, Varsha and Helena. Special thanks to Han and the Mintlify crew for their invaluable help, and to Pete for believing in us from the start. Excited to take this journey with YC and push the boundaries of what's possible in EV infrastructure. If you're interested in the future of fleet electrification or sustainable transport, let's connect! Check out our YC launch post here: https://lnkd.in/g2N2u-u8

Curo (YC F24) helps electric fleets park and charge their vehicles anywhere, with the world’s largest private network of underutilized EV charging sites. Distributed fleets struggle to electrify at scale. EV charging can cost thousands of dollars and take years to install; even then, installation may not be feasible. EV charger utilization is painfully low, private chargers can't monetize effectively, and public chargers aren't set up for long-term, exclusive use. Curo's platform enables fleets to lease EV chargers from owners during underutilized times. Curo allows fleets to access immediately available and scalable charging with no upfront cost, and EV charging owners to increase revenue 5x safely and easily. Founders Kieran White and Andrew Porter have helped distribute one of the largest electric fleets at Tesla, encountering the charging problem firsthand and launched products at DraftKings. With Curo, they're pioneering the commercial EV charging system of tomorrow. Congrats to the team on the launch! ?? https://lnkd.in/gjVY8NHZ

Super excited to share that Curo has joined Y Combinator's F24 batch ?? This calls for a brief overview of what Andrew, Gaia, Graham, Bianca, Meg, Aitana and I are building ?? ? Why are we working on Curo? Distributed fleets struggle to electrify at scale. EV charging can cost thousands of dollars and take years to install; even then, installation may not be feasible. EV charger utilization is painfully low, private chargers can't monetize effectively, and public chargers aren't set up for long-term, exclusive use. ?? So what's Curo? We're building a platform to enable fleets to lease EV chargers from owners during underutilized times. Curo allows fleets to access immediately available and scalable charging with no upfront cost, and EV charging owners to increase revenue 5x safely and easily. We've been going from strength to strength over the past several months and I can't say how excited we are to be continuing the momentum. A huge thank you to Julia, Jordan, Kashif, Varsha, Helena for their support and specifically Han and the Mintlify crew, without whom we may not have had the opportunity. Not to mention Pete for his incredible support throughout in taking a chance on us ?? You can checkout our launch below ?? https://lnkd.in/g2N2u-u8

WE DID IT ?? Such as awesome time last night for the NY Climate Week eMobility happy hour that Curo co-hosted alongside incredible friends Synop, Flash, Obvious Ventures and Prologis Ventures ?? Also partnered with the amazing people at Newlab, itselectric, Voltpost, MN8 Energy, Streamline Climate and Evo Electric ?? Was so cool to see so many friends, partners and industry vets come together for a killer killer event, thanks so much to everyone for coming ???? Gaia Palliere, Sammie Hasen and Prem Patel pulled this whole thing together in such a short amount of time, without them it wouldn't have happened ?? Onwards to bigger and better next year, NYC rooftop and a few panels anyone...

Excited to head over to New York for Climate Week ?? Gaia and I from the Curo team will be in town from Tuesday 24th to Friday 27th, meeting awesome friends and partners ?? Alongside co-hosting an eMobility Happy Hour, Amped Up Affair, with the great Synop, Obvious Ventures, Flash, Prologis Ventures and Sammie Hasen ?? If you're in fleet, EV charging or real estate, we're always down to grab a coffee ? Link to register to the event is below ?? https://lu.ma/y1yjsrax (This pic is from the first Amped Up Affair in SF)

The Curo team have been going from absolute strength to strength over the last couple months ?? Although still in our infancy, we're definitely beginning to crawl and potentially even a walk is starting to show ?? As we're going through the stages, it really felt like we were outgrowing our self-made branding, website and product design. ?? So...happy to announce the new look of Curo!!!! We worked super hard with the awesome Gilad and Garnish to create something that more accurately rep'd what we're doing and why. Andrew and Graham killed the build and absolutely smashed out the site ???? Couldn't recommend Gilad and Garnish enough ?? You can check out the brand new Curo at https://lnkd.in/gU-hGXJJ ?

TLDR; we're hiring for our next absolute rockstar at Curo!! Check out the role below ?? Ok you've met my co-founder Andrew and one of our legendary founding team members Gaia...but who's the one wanted dead or alive?? Well...that's Bianca, a literal assassin, the newest member of Curo and our second hire on Gaia's Virtual Depot team ?? Gaia and Bianca are both incredibly inspiring, hardworking and a complete pleasure to work with, can't say how lucky I am to do so on a daily basis. They're building a fundamental portion of the Curo product, that being the supply engine of existing and private EV Charging sites. We're really accelerating and lucky enough to be adding the third member of our Virtual Depot team, working super closely with myself and Chris but more importantly Gaia and Bianca ?? Check out the role below and feel free to s/o anyone that would be a great fit: https://lnkd.in/gK5VAAcG

Parking operators are crucial in commercial fleets' transition to EVs At Curo, our goal is to help uncover semi-private chargers for commercial fleets to use– both as an alternative and an addition to home charging and on-site charging options. As we've been building out our Virtual Depot network, parking operators have been a key partner in matching existing chargers with fleets. That being said, excited to attend the International Parking & Mobility Institute (IPMI) and meet existing and new parking partners. If you'll be there, would love to meet and talk all things EV/parking infrastructure for commercial fleets! :) #ipmi2024

Great opportunity for someone who is hungry to make impact. Bring your hustle and your A game! #evcharging Curo