The story
ChargePoint was founded in 2007 as Coulomb Technologies by Richard Lowenthal, Dave Baxter and Harjinder Bhade.
In June 2017, ChargePoint took over 9,800 electric vehicle charging spots from GE, adding to its 34,900 existing charging stations across Mexico, Australia, Canada, and the United States.
On November 28, 2018, ChargePoint raised $240 million. At the time, ChargePoint maintained 57,000 charging stations. In 2019, VW's Electrify America and ChargePoint agreed to provide common access to their US customers.
The company reached 100,000 chargers in September 2019, while adding more than 2,000 charging locations per month.
ChargePoint went public through a special-purpose acquisition company ("SPAC") reverse merger in February 2021. In January 2023, ChargePoint, Mercedes-Benz, and MN8 Energy announced plans to add 2,500 fast chargers at 400 charging hubs in the U.S., available to all EVs.
From Wikipedia’s article on ChargePoint, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7
