“Can an API-first middleware layer become the operating system for EV charging networks by combining OCPP interoperability with AI-driven revenue and reliability operations?”
eDRV was founded in 2020 in Amsterdam to solve the fragmentation of the EV charging ecosystem by providing an API-first platform to normalize OCPP/OCPI communications across charger vendors. The company has since evolved from a pure connectivity/messaging layer into an AIOps platform targeting Ops, Finance, Fleet and Support leaders at Charge Point Operators — layering revenue reconciliation, SLA management, and predictive fault detection on top of its API core. Embedded payments (via Stripe) are a supporting feature — the driver wallet and pricing engine — rather than the core product.
eDRV processes payments through Stripe.
eDRV was founded by Bhaskar Deol and Rupul Safaya and is founded in 2020, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA (originally Amsterdam).
eDRV has raised $1.8M in total (latest round: Seed).
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