SWFTCharge

What SWFTCharge does

SWFTCharge is a Toronto-based, privately held Canadian company founded in fall 2016 that operates a direct-to-consumer portable charger exchange program at music festivals and live events across North America. The company's core service allows festival attendees to pre-order or buy on-site a fast-charge power bank (5,000–20,000 mAH, universal Lightning/micro-USB/USB-C compatibility), pick it up at a branded SWFTCharge booth, swap it unlimited times during the event for a fresh unit, and keep the charger afterward for home use or cross-festival exchange (subject to a CA$20 service fee at subsequent events in the network). The platform also offers secured combination-lock festival locker rentals (CA$50, GA and VIP variants) and is marketed as the only festival charging network powered by 100% green energy via a Bullfrog Power renewable energy certificate partnership that covers total network load 2x over.

The business runs on a hybrid DTC and event-driven go-to-market. Online pre-orders via swftcharge.com (with a 15% discount vs. in-person pricing) drive upfront hardware sales, while on-site booths at 100+ North American festivals serve as physical retail, charger pickup, and unlimited-swap exchange points. Revenue is generated through three streams: one-time hardware sales of chargers (CA$35+), per-event transaction fees for cross-festival swaps (CA$20), and locker rentals (CA$50). The company has cumulatively charged 500,000+ devices across 100+ festivals over a 10-year operating history and has been funded primarily by a CA$400,000 angel round from the Southern Ontario Angel Network in 2018; headcount remains small (1–10 employees) with a distributed venue team supporting on-site operations.

Name

SWFTCharge

Legal name

SWFTCharge Inc.

Website

https://swftcharge.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SWFTCharge is a Toronto-founded, private Canadian company that runs a direct-to-consumer portable charger exchange and locker rental service at 100+ music festivals across North America, serving individual festival attendees with universal fast-charge power banks and on-site swap logistics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mobile Charging Services

SIC

Wholesale-Hardware (5072)

akta.pro primary industry

Power Banks & Portable Power (Battery Packs, MagSafe Packs) (CRACATAD)

Keywords

• Portable phone chargers
• Festival charging services
• Mobile power banks
• Battery swap services
• Event charging solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Charger Hardware Sales (Festival Pre-Order & In-Person): One-time sale of fast-charge portable power banks (5,000 mAH unit pre-ordered at festivals from CA$35.00; range up to 20,000 mAH) via own e-commerce site and on-site festival booths. Pre-order customers receive a 15% discount vs in-person pricing.
2. Cross-Festival Swap Service Fee: Customers who bring a previously purchased charger to a different festival in the exchange program pay a $20 service fee for unlimited swapping during that festival — a usage/transaction-based recurring revenue stream tied to the installed base.
3. Festival Locker Rentals: Per-event rental of secured combination-lock lockers at festivals (e.g., CA$50.00 at Boots & Hearts 2026, general admission and VIP variants), with 15% pre-order discount online.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SWFTCharge sells fast-charge portable power banks (5,000–20,000 mAH) and operates a Festival Exchange Program at 100+ North American music festivals, where attendees pre-order or buy on-site a charger, swap it unlimited times for a fresh unit at branded booths, and keep the charger afterward. The company also rents secured combination-lock lockers at festival venues as an add-on service.

Product overview

SWFTCharge operates a single core service, the Festival Exchange Program, which is a portable-charger swap-and-keep offering anchored by its proprietary line of SWFTCharge Portable Chargers (5,000 mAH to 20,000 mAH fast-charge power banks). The Festival Charger Pre-order storefront is the entry point into that program, letting attendees reserve and pick up chargers at festival booths; the Festival Lockers product is an add-on module that gives attendees a secure place to store valuables alongside the charging service. Together these offerings (Festival Charger Pre-order, Festival Exchange Program, SWFTCharge Portable Chargers, and Festival Lockers) form a unified festival-experience bundle available across 100+ North American music festivals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SWFTCharge Portable Chargers Fast-charge portable power banks ranging from 5,000 mAH to 20,000 mAH, compatible with all smartphones (iPhone, Android, Google Pixel) via micro-USB and USB-C, and capable of charging vape devices. The 5,000 mAH pre-order unit provides 1–2 full phone charges.
• Festival Exchange Program Portable-charger swap service for music festivals where attendees pre-order or buy on-site a fast-charge power bank, pick it up at a SWFTCharge booth, and return to swap unlimited times for a fresh unit when the battery dies. The charger is the customer's to keep after the festival and can be brought to any other festival in the exchange program.
• Festival Lockers Festival locker rentals offering attendees a secure combination lock and 24-hour access to store valuables. Currently available for Boots and Hearts 2026 in General Admission (next to Lost and Found) and VIP (inside the Barn) tiers at CA$50.00, with dimensions of 12" x 18" x 18".

Quantifiable outcome

• 500,000+ devices charged across 100+ festivals over 10 years
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and operational (back-office).

• Bullfrog PowerflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerBullfrog Power supplies 100% green/renewable electricity and renewable energy certificates (RECs) covering SWFTCharge's total network energy load 2x over. Power sources include dams, wind turbines, and solar farms across Canada. Marketed as a core sustainability differentiator ('SWFTCharge powered by 100% green energy').
• Stripeoperational (back-office)OthersStripe is used as a PCI-DSS compliant third-party payment processor for purchases on swftcharge.com; SWFTCharge does not store or collect payment card details.
• PayPaloperational (back-office)OthersPayPal is used as a PCI-DSS compliant third-party payment processor for purchases on swftcharge.com.
• Cloveroperational (back-office)OthersClover is used as a PCI-DSS compliant third-party payment processor for purchases on swftcharge.com.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• FuelRod: FuelRod operates a swap-based portable charger service at theme parks and major venues (notably Disney properties) — the closest direct analog to SWFTCharge's festival swap/exchange program, with a near-identical 'buy, swap, keep' user experience.
• Frenzy: Frenzy offers shared power-bank stations for rent in venues, restaurants, and events with a per-minute pricing model — directly comparable to SWFTCharge's per-festival swap service and on-site distribution.
• goCharge: goCharge builds and rents phone-charging kiosks, stations, and lockers for events, hotels, and public venues — overlapping with SWFTCharge's hardware + venue-deployment stack.
• ChargeItSpot: ChargeItSpot provides phone charging kiosks and lockers in retail stores, malls, and event venues across North America — directly overlapping SWFTCharge's locker-rental and on-site venue charging offerings.
• Veloxity: Veloxity (rebrand of ChargedUp US) provides phone-charging lockers and kiosks at events and venues across North America, closely mirroring SWFTCharge's festival booth + locker offering.

Emerging players

• BatteryXchange: BatteryXchange operates free, ad-supported phone-charging kiosks at bars, restaurants, and events — a partial-overlap competitor to SWFT's venue-based charging footprint with a different monetization model.
• Rent2Charge: Rent2Charge offers event-based portable charger rentals for corporate events, conferences, and festivals — a smaller-scale, emerging direct peer in the festival/event charging space.

Broad incumbents

• Anker: Anker is the dominant portable charger and power bank brand globally; its consumer products are the primary alternative to SWFTCharge's own-brand chargers and define the price/quality benchmark SWFT must compete against.
• EcoFlow: EcoFlow is a larger portable power and energy-storage company whose charging products compete in the same portable-power category SWFT operates in, with broader consumer and prosumer reach.

Regional players

• ChargedUp: ChargedUp runs a portable power-bank rental and swap network at UK and European festivals, conferences, and venues — a near-identical operating model to SWFTCharge but focused on European geographies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/pg/swftcharge/reviews
• Instagraminstagram.com/swftcharger

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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