YKC Charging Receives Investment from OPPO in Series B3 Financing

YKC Clean Energy Technologies, has recently announced the completion of its Series B3 financing with investment from top smart device manufacturer OPPO, concluding three significant financing rounds within a space of just nine months following investments from CATL and NIO Capital.

YKC Charging is one of the pioneers in the Chinese EV charging sector and one of the few Chinese internet firms with both technical expertise and an open attitude towards collaboration with other industry players. Since 2016, YKC Charging has built the largest third-party EV charging SaaS platform in China.

By October 2021, YKC Charging was serving some 2,800 charging station operators while the number of directly connected charging piles topped 140,000, leading the way in the industry in terms of both scale and strength.

YKC Charging has been on a mission with a focus on EV charging and on energy management with the end goal of becoming an integrated energy management service provider with a deep commitment to the charging infrastructure sector through collaboration with industry partners.

To this end, the firm, in cooperation with local governments and companies across the industry chain, has established the first carbon peak and neutrality-oriented fund in the sector while creating industry-leading products and services with applications in the software, finance, energy storage and carbon trading sectors, as well as providing operations and maintenance services through cooperation with upstream and downstream vendors.

This recent investment demonstrates OPPO's high recognition of YKC Charging's well-defined strategies, cooperation philosophy and efforts in helping achieve carbon peak and neutrality goals.

Notably, YKC Charging had completed several rounds of strategic financing before the Series B3 financing. Investors included leading logistics provider GLP, battery giant CATL and NIO Capital. These investments served to bring together several key elements, including charging scenarios, technologies for charging equipment, traffic sources and industry capital.

According to available information, OPPO has successively rolled out several smart mobility solutions since the beginning of the year.