EVmatch picks Epic Charging as exclusive software provider, backed by strategic investment
What's the deal? EVmatchDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Silicon Valley EV charging company focused on multifamily and workplace properties, has selected Epic Charging as its exclusive charging software provider. The deal is backed by a strategic venture investment from Epic in EVmatch, announced in June 2026.
EVmatch will keep its own brand but run on Epic's platform, including a new dashboard and mobile app. Epic brings reservation-based access, dynamic load management, driver payments, real-time monitoring, and hardware-agnostic interoperability via the OCPP standard.
EVmatch contributes a decade of customer relationships, deployment expertise, and utility-programme know-how built since its 2016 founding.
Why now? The partnership traces back to a crisis. When Enel X Way abruptly shut down its North American operations in October 2024, much of EVmatch's installed charger base lost its backend server overnight. EVmatch turned to Epic to migrate those chargers onto a new platform and keep operations running.
That emergency migration evolved into a full software partnership, then an exclusive provider agreement, and now a strategic investment.
"Multifamily is the hardest segment in EV charging, and it's the one we've committed to since day one," said Heather Hochrein, founder and chief executive officer of EVmatch. "This investment means we can scale that model with a partner who has proven they can execute."
What could go wrong? Multifamily EV charging is notoriously difficult. Shared access, resident billing, rebate programmes, and properties that can't tolerate downtime all add complexity. Relying on a single exclusive software provider also carries concentration risk — as EVmatch learned the hard way when Enel X Way disappeared.
The financial terms of the investment were not disclosed, making it hard to gauge the depth of Epic's commitment or EVmatch's runway.
The signal: EVmatch remains classified as an early-stage company on Dealroom, and Epic Charging's investment marks a corporate-backed bet on a segment — multifamily EV charging — that has struggled to attract dedicated capital. The partnership is also a case study in how Enel X Way's abrupt North American exit created consolidation opportunities, allowing surviving operators and software providers to absorb orphaned infrastructure and lock in long-term contracts.
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