By Pedro Silva, CEO, i-charging
When the Financial Times contacted us about our 17th place in the FT1000, Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies, our first reaction was to look at what it actually measures. Revenue growth over 2021 and 2024. Consistent, verifiable, compound growth.
That’s a useful metric, it reflects something real about how a business is operating, not just how it’s positioned.
For i-charging, the growth behind that ranking came from a specific approach: building infrastructure that customers can deploy today and scale as their business evolves. That principle has driven our product decisions since 2019, and it’s what’s allowed us to expand into 36 countries across very different market segments.
What the ranking reflects
The FT1000 is a ranking of European companies, but our growth over this period has been global: Europe, North America, Australia, Latin America, Middle East, and now Southeast Asia. Each market has different regulatory requirements, different grid specifications, different vehicle charging standards. What’s consistent across all of them is the challenge: how do you deploy capital into charging infrastructure when the market and technology are still developing?
The answer we’ve built around is the same one we designed into blueberry in 2021 and into i-light in 2024 and MAX in 2026. Modular architecture. Dynamic power allocation. Infrastructure that is flexible, starts where your operation is today and scales as it grows. Our customers don’t need to over-dimension on day one. They don’t need to replace infrastructure when their business evolves.
That approach provides flexibility, minimal AC distribution cabling, optimal available power utilisation, intrinsic redundancy and optimised capital investment. And it has resonated in markets we expected, and in several we didn’t anticipate as early.
Where we are in 2026
The sector is going through a consolidation phase. Several companies that scaled quickly on capital rather than fundamentals are pulling back. That creates two things simultaneously: more scrutiny on every operator’s infrastructure decision, and clearer differentiation between solutions that deliver operational value and those that don’t.
We’re in a stronger position than we were twelve months ago. Not because the market got easier, it hasn’t, but because the questions our customers are asking now are exactly the questions our technology was built to answer. How do I maximise utilisation of installed capacity? How do I serve a mixed fleet with different power requirements? How do I build infrastructure that works with MCS when those vehicles arrive after 2026?
Recognitions from Deloitte, Frost & Sullivan, ABI Research, COTEC, and now the FT1000 are consistent. External validation with different methodologies pointing in the same direction.
What comes next
We’re currently working on applications beyond the core charging infrastructure market. Fleet electrification at scale. Aviation ground support. Segments where the power requirements and operational complexity are significant, and where the dimensioning question, how do you build infrastructure that adapts rather than constrains, is even more relevant than in light-duty public charging.
The MCS standard for heavy-duty trucks is maturing. Our i-light architecture was designed with that transition in mind. When MCS-capable trucks reach the market in volume, the solution will already exist.
Growth rankings are a reflection of decisions made years earlier. The decisions we’re making now will show up in different metrics, a few years from now.
We’ll keep you updated.
