We are excited to launch a new series spotlighting our remarkable portfolio companies and the work they are doing to disrupt their industries!
Today we want to highlight Tiya Gordon, COO and Co-Founder of it’s electric – curbside EV charging specifically built for cities.
Read on to learn more about Tiya and it’s electric!
🔌 What They Do: it’s electric has crafted a public charging solution to address the infrastructural and environmental justice barriers cities face in the deployment of electric vehicle charging. Instead of requiring costly and time consuming new utility connections, their charging posts connect behind-the-meter to draw spare electrical supply from adjacent buildings. With a critical focus on frontline and disadvantaged communities, it’s electric is bringing affordable, equitable, curbside, EV charging to the millions of city drivers across the United States who cannot charge at home.
🔌 Why They Do It: With 20 years of experience in design, leadership, and operations across a range of disciplines, Tiya is leveraging her expertise to wage war against the Climate Crisis. While building it’s electric, Tiya has had many signs and signals that reinforced that she was on the right path, but the one she was most floored by was winning Fast Company’s “Next Big Thing in Tech” Award and being recognized as a product that will define technological innovation for the rest of this decade and beyond.
🔌 How We Met: Tiya first met Chloe Capital in 2022 and she was then selected as one of 20 founders for our inaugural NYCEDC Founder Fellowship Program. Through the program Tiya received mentorship from our ecosystem of experts and ultimately participated in a showcase in front of numerous investors, receiving investment from us as well as many others.
🔌 Chloe Effect: As a Chloe Capital cohort member and portfolio company, it’s electric gets access to our network of 50,000 ecosystem partners. Tiya says it best herself, “Chloe Capital has been nothing short of a powerhouse of a network. Anyone we might need, [they] seem to know”.
🔌 What is Next for it’s electric: it’s electric just closed their $6.5mm seed round, co-led by Uber, which will support deployment across seven cities in the United States this year, including Boston, LA, Detroit, Jersey City, and SF. They’re particularly excited about their expansion into Boston where, supported by the Boston Transportation Department, they plan to deploy hundreds of chargers in the next five years. (Read more about these recent announcements in Fortune and The EV Report.)
Learn more about it’s electric at https://www.itselectric.us/