Hugo Tilmouth
Founder & CEO of ChargedUp
Hugo Tilmouth is a British entrepreneur and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ChargedUp, the UK’s largest mobile phone charging network.
He co-founded the company in 2017, shortly after graduating from the University of Exeter, and has led it as chief executive ever since. ChargedUp lets people rent a portable charger at one venue and return it at another, and today operates across roughly 3,000 bars, cafés, restaurants and transport hubs in five countries.
At a glance
- Full name
- Hugo Croft Tilmouth
- Role
- Founder & Chief Executive Officer, ChargedUp
- Company
- ChargedUp — trading name of Innovate Energy Solutions Ltd, company no. 10731302
- Founded
- 2017
- Based
- London, United Kingdom
- Education
- University of Exeter — Renewable Energy, Penryn Campus, graduated 2017
- Recognition
- Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe, Social Entrepreneurs (2019)
- Nationality
- British
- Profiles
- LinkedIn · Crunchbase
The company
Hugo Tilmouth founded ChargedUp and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
ChargedUp is a mobile phone charging network. Customers tap to rent a portable battery from a station in a venue, charge their phone while they carry on with their day, and return it to any other station in the network.
The idea began at the University of Exeter and was incorporated in April 2017 as Innovate Energy Solutions Ltd, which trades as ChargedUp. Hugo has been a director of the company since the day it was incorporated. The BBC called it “the Boris Bike of phone charging”.
By the company’s own published figures, ChargedUp now operates in five countries and around 3,000 venues, has served roughly 2.5 million users, and has delivered more than 500 million minutes of charge.
Selected coverage
In the press
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Forbes
30 Under 30 Europe — Social EntrepreneursHugo Tilmouth and Hakeem Buge named for ChargedUp
2019 -
TechCrunch
ChargedUp picks up £1.2M seed to grow its mobile charging network across UKBy Steve O’Hear
Feb 2019 -
University of Exeter
University of Exeter entrepreneurs feature in Forbes 30 under 30 list
2019 -
Founders Factory
From ChargedUp to CleanedUp: How to Pivot in Times of Crisis
2020
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