How would you explain your business model?

Gridio sells a full smart charging suite to energy utilities, delivered in whichever form fits the customer: a white-label consumer app they launch under their own brand, or a direct API integration into their existing platform. We own the entire technical stack so the utility does not have to. We connect the customer's electric vehicle, solar inverter and home battery, then run optimization, smart charging and flexibility on top. Revenue has three layers that scale together. First, a fixed monthly fee for the platform. Second, a monthly fee for each connected EV, so our revenue grows in lockstep with the utility's active fleet. Third, a flexibility share: once we turn that aggregated fleet into usable flexibility, we take a portion of the monthly savings we create, aligning our upside directly with the value delivered. Behind this sits our consumer app, which we run as a live testing ground to prove new features with real users before they reach the utility product. We have over 10,000 B2C customers that pay us 3.79 euro per month as well.

What makes your idea unique compared to your competitors?

Gridio's unique idea is that we have proven the entire value chain end to end, and proven it with real customers, not in a lab.The chain runs from connecting the customer's EV, solar and home battery, through optimization and automated smart charging, all the way to unlocking flexibility from the aggregated fleet. Many companies own one link in that chain. Middleware providers sell the vehicle connection and stop. Others describe flexibility they have not delivered at consumer scale. What no one else has is the piece that makes the whole chain work: a consumer experience validated over four years in a live app, rated 4.7 stars with thousands of paying users. That matters because flexibility is worthless without adoption. It only exists if real drivers opt in, trust the automation and stay. Our B2C app is the proof that they do, and it is the testing ground where we validate every feature before it reaches the utilities we serve.

Where do you see your company in the next 5 years?

In five years, Gridio is the bridge connecting the world's car makers to Europe's energy providers, and its impact shows up in two places everyone understands: what people pay, and what the continent has to build. Start with the driver. Charging an electric car at home costs a typical owner several hundred euros a year. Gridio already cuts that by up to half, automatically, and our aim is to take it all the way to free, by letting the car earn its keep balancing the grid while it sits parked overnight. Your car stops being a running cost and starts paying for itself. Adding V2G is the next level that we are already piloting. Now scale it up. About 100,000 electric cars, all charging at the smartest moments instead of the same moment, can do the work of a full power station, without laying a single new cable or building anything. Europe already has 7.6 million electric cars on its roads, growing over 30% every year. That is more than a dozen power stations' worth of clean balancing capacity, already bought and paid for, just sitting in driveways waiting to be switched on. Gridio is the software that switches it on and we are expanding quickly with our utility clients in 5 different countries.