Rightcharge, the UK platform that consolidates home and public charging payments for fleets, raised GBP 500,000 on September 3, 2026 from its existing investors: Soulmates Ventures leading, with BlackWood Ventures and Purple Ventures. It follows a GBP 1.6 million seed round in late 2025. The reported numbers are consistent across the coverage: more than 20 times growth in annual recurring revenue over the past year, more than 200 direct UK fleet customers, and five licensing agreements with fleet suppliers for the home charging reimbursement technology. The money is aimed at European customer acquisition, deeper partnerships and a future Series A. Rightcharge says fleets on its platform can cut charging costs by up to 90 per cent and emissions by around 30 per cent, which is the company's own figure.
The round is small. The five licences are not. Reimbursing a driver for charging at home at their own domestic tariff is a fiddly, jurisdiction-specific problem: you need the session data, the household tariff, a payment route onto the energy bill and a tax treatment the revenue service accepts. Building it is unrewarding, and once someone has built it, everyone else in fleet software would rather rent it than repeat it. Selling that engine into other people's fleet products, rather than only to fleets directly, is how a niche capability turns into infrastructure.
This is the second Rightcharge movement in a fortnight, after the Andersen EV integration that we covered last week. Both moves point the same way: the reimbursement layer is consolidating faster than the charger layer underneath it. The friction that remains is that each charger brand still needs its own route in. Session data that arrives over OCPP, the way Plugchoice collects it, does not care which brand is on the driver's wall, and that is the half of this problem that does not need five more bilateral deals to solve.
Sources: tech.eu, September 3, 2026; The EV Report; Startups Magazine.