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Joshua Aviv the CEO of SparkCharge
Joshua Aviv

Full Name: Joshua Aviv

Born: February 07, 1992, Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., United States

Position: founder and CEO

Works for: SparkCharge Corporation

Primary Industry: Automotive, Energy Storage

Nationality: American

Residence: Revere, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Joshua Aviv, founder and CEO, SparkCharge Corporation since August 2014. SparkCharge offers Charging As A Service, mobile electric vehicle charging.

Aviv said he launched the company to after asking himself the question of “why do we have to go find a charging station? Why can’t the charging station come directly to us?”

According to Crunchbase the company has raised a total of $60 million. The companies investor include Shark Tank's Mark Cuban & Lori Greiner, LG Nova, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Peak6 Strategic Capital, Tale Venture Partners, and M&T Bank.

 

Education

  • Master of Science (M.S.), Information Management, Syracuse University, 2017
  • C.A.S, Data Science, Syracuse University, 2016
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Syracuse University, 2015

Accolades

  • $1,000,000 Investment from Mark Cuban & Lori Greiner, Shark Tank ABC, 2020;
  • Startup Fest’s Global Pitch Competition: 1st Place Best in Fest: SparkCharge, Startup Fest, 2019;
  • Won 1st Place $1,000,000 Grand Prize, 43North, 2018;
  • Panasci Business Plan Competition 4th Place Award Winner, Panasci Business Plan Competition, 2016;
  • Syracuse Economic Champion, Center State CEO, 2014;
  • Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Scholar, Kauffman Foundation, ;

Related Links

  • LinkedIn Josh is the founder of SparkCharge, a portable electric vehicle charger company that allows electric vehicle owners to charge their car anytime and anywhere they want.
  • Twitter: @jcaviv Founder CEO SparkCharge, $1,000,000 Winner 43North, Techstars '18.
  • Instagram: @joshaviv
  • Company: SparkCharge SparkCharge is on a journey to change the way the world charges electric vehicles. We are the first company to create an EV charging system and network—SparkCharge doesn’t just lead the field, we created the field. Our Charging-as-a-Service (CaaS) network, along with our mobile app Currently, enables EV owners to charge whenever and wherever they want, giving them freedom and flexibility.
  • From Dorm Room to Boardroom: Joshua Aviv On Founding A Million-Dollar EV Charging Company While In College That's Poised To Disrupt CleanTech To look at electric vehicle charging maps for major US cities, you’d think Black neighborhoods were wholly uninterested in EVs. But Joshua Aviv knew that wasn’t the case. And it was only a matter of time before he did something about it. What started as an idea in his Syracuse University dorm room back in 2014, the school’s student entrepreneurship training incubator, Blackstone Launchpad helped Aviv create a business strategy to create a solution to EV charging desserts: a portable charging device.

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