Anis Cheriet
Anis Cheriet is an Algerian-French entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Chargebotic, a San Francisco startup building autonomous charging infrastructure for robot fleets. He deployed more than 2,500 EV chargers across France and Europe between 2021 and 2024, leading projects for McDonald's, Tesla, Carrefour, and heavy-vehicle fleet operators before applying that infrastructure expertise to the robotics industry.1 Chargebotic, co-founded with hardware engineer Christopher Redfearn in December 2025, built a full autonomous charging stack — induction pads, receiver modules, and orchestration software — within three months of founding, and joined the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc. in April 2026.3
Early life and education
Cheriet grew up in Algeria and moved to France to study.1 He completed a bachelor's degree in Economics and Financial Management at ISEM School (Institut Superieur d'Economie et de Management) within the Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis system, graduating in 2018.2 He then enrolled at Universite Paris Nanterre, graduating in 2020 with a Master's in Entrepreneurship and Project Management.2 During his master's studies, Cheriet held national student-entrepreneur status through the Pepite program — a French government initiative within the D2E (Diplome d'Etudiant-Entrepreneur) network — while working weekend shifts at Fnac Darty selling phones and electronics to fund his education.21
Before graduating, Cheriet founded a drone inspection company that captured aerial and interior footage of construction sites for reinforced concrete firms including Bouygues and IDEC.1 He also trained seniors on digital tools during the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Earlier in his studies, he worked as an executive assistant at Maison Salomon, a Station F-incubated social catering company that hired and trained refugees, contributing to B2B operations and strategy.2
EV charging career (2021–2024)
Rexel and Freshmile
In December 2021, Cheriet joined Rexel as a contractor to help deploy Freshmile, an EV charging solution Rexel had acquired.2 Over several months he traveled more than 10,000 km across France, visiting 35 agencies and training over 350 B2B clients — primarily electricians — on EV charging solutions in Paris, Brittany, and the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region.12
Sicame Academy and AutoPlug
In early 2022, Sicame Academy appointed Cheriet as a technical trainer, where he trained over 100 professional electricians and business owners in the P1/P2/P3 charging installation standards required by French law.2 Sessions were attended by teams from Schneider Electric, Hager, ABB, Legrand, Wallbox, and EVBox.1 He obtained the EVSE Expert certification (Q-P1/P2/P3), qualifying him to audit and train to the highest industry standard.1
Concurrently, at AutoPlug, Cheriet trained internal teams on EV charging installation and co-designed a digital information display for car dealerships, which was unveiled at the Paris Auto Show 2022 alongside Ford and BYD.21
Carrefour and the Paris Olympics project
From February to May 2023, Cheriet joined Carrefour as Project Manager for the nationwide EV charging program, which covered over 3,500 retail locations.2 He led deployment at 115 Carrefour Market sites in partnership with Driveco, managing rollout strategy, contract leases, site coordination, and infrastructure delivery as part of Carrefour's official Paris 2024 Olympics partnership.12
McDonald's national rollout via Firalp/Resonance
From May to December 2023, Cheriet worked as a Project Manager at Groupe Firalp through Resonance, managing projects for IZIVIA, a subsidiary of EDF Group.2 The assignment was McDonald's France's nationwide fast-charging rollout — making McDonald's the first major restaurant chain in France to adopt EV charging infrastructure.1 Cheriet personally managed 73 sites within the national deployment of 1,040 McDonald's locations, each equipped with 300 kW fast chargers.1 He developed a standardization framework that reduced deployment variables from 22 to 2 across sites, and managed a team of three.12
Altens and heavy-vehicle charging
From February to November 2024, Cheriet built Altens' heavy-vehicle electric charging infrastructure offering from scratch.2 He negotiated with more than 18 DC and AC hardware manufacturers, assembled a national network of certified installers, and directed 17 charging projects for fleet operators including Scania and Renault Trucks, all running 24/7 logistics platforms.12 Altens was based in La Rochelle, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.2
By late 2024, Cheriet had deployed charging infrastructure across retail, highway, underground parking, light-vehicle, and heavy-transport contexts.1
San Francisco and early ventures (2025)
Cheriet relocated to San Francisco in early 2025.1 He founded TOMFEED in February 2025 — a content studio where founders record professional video content, with the company handling strategy, recording, coaching, editing, and publishing.2 He also served as Venture Partner at Mixverse from August 2025 to January 2026, representing the company in the XR and AR ecosystem and building relationships with local investors.2
In September 2025, Cheriet co-founded cocoai, a consumer mobile app for creating AI-generated photos through prompting and templates; he led ideation, product design, and distribution, launching the app on the App Store before winding down the venture in November 2025.2 During this period he completed the Certificate in Human-Centered AI from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), a remote program running June through August 2025.21
Chargebotic
Founding
Cheriet co-founded Chargebotic in December 2025 with Christopher Redfearn, a hardware engineer with prior experience at Apple and Meta who holds a master's degree in computer science.3 The concept originated from research into lunar rover power constraints: a $100 million rover faces a 14-day operational limit because solar panels stop generating power during the lunar night, when surface temperatures drop to -173 degrees Celsius.3 Cheriet investigated wireless induction charging as the lunar solution — it eliminates connectors that would jam with regolith dust and has no moving parts to fail.3 Astrobotic had previously confirmed the viability of this approach, completing flight model acceptance testing in May 2024 for a 125 W wireless charger developed with WiBotic and NASA Glenn Research Center; the system survived temperatures as low as -292 degrees Fahrenheit and 4 cm of regolith coverage with no degradation to power transfer.6
After designing a Lunar Energy Node (LEN) concept — deployable induction modules buried in regolith for thermal protection, forming a mesh network — Cheriet and Redfearn recognized that autonomous robots on Earth share the same unsolved energy problem. Fleets lose an estimated 30% of productive operating time to charging, and every manufacturer uses a siloed, proprietary solution.3
Product and technology
The team built a prototype robot called Spark-E from scratch beginning January 6, 2026, alongside a first conductive charging station, at the Artifact lab in San Francisco.3 Spark-E is a mecanum-wheel rover equipped with an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, LiDAR, an OAK-D Lite depth camera, an IMU, ultrasonic sensors, and wheel encoders.4 The robot uses ArUco marker detection to navigate to charging pads with millimeter precision and zero human intervention.4
By February 2026, the team had built custom induction charging pads, scaling from 5 W to 100 W, with 3D-printed enclosures and copper coils.43 The navigation stack was evolved into a charging orchestration system: when a robot detects low battery, it plans a route to the nearest charger, docks, charges, and resumes its mission automatically.3 Chargebotic V1, completed in February 2026, integrates the robot platform, battery, induction charging station, autonomous navigation, and orchestration software into a single end-to-end stack — built in under three months.4
The commercial product has three components: a wireless charging pad, a receiver module that fits onto any robot regardless of manufacturer, and software that manages fleet-wide charging routing and scheduling.57
Target markets and go-to-market
Chargebotic targets warehouse and factory autonomous mobile robots, drones and UAVs, last-mile delivery robots, humanoid robots, and heavy industrial and outdoor machines.3 Three customer types are addressed: fleet operators whose robots lose time to charging, robot manufacturers who need an energy layer to complete their product, and logistics center owners who subcontract fleet operations.3
The enterprise sales motion centers on an on-site energy audit: Chargebotic visits a facility, audits the charging workflow, specifies a custom charger configuration, designs the orchestration software plan, and delivers a written report with an ROI estimate and a 90-day deployment roadmap.3
Canopy Spring 2026
Chargebotic joined the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc. in April 2026, participating in the hardware track of the five-week program at Fort Mason in San Francisco.32 At cohort start the team had completed the full hardware and software stack and was in conversations with fleet operators across verticals to identify the first deployment.3
References
- Anis Cheriet | From 2,500 Fast Chargers to Powering Robots — anischeriet.com(accessed Apr 24, 2026)
- ANIS CHERIET — LinkedIn Profile(accessed Apr 24, 2026)
- Chargebotic | Universal Energy for Autonomous Robots — chargebotic.com(accessed Apr 24, 2026)
- Chargebotic | What We've Built — chargebotic.com(accessed Apr 24, 2026)
- Introducing Chargebotic: Autonomous Charging for Robots — LinkedIn Post, April 9 2026(accessed Apr 24, 2026)
- Astrobotic Lunar Wireless Charger System Qualified for Flight — Astrobotic, May 22 2024(accessed Apr 24, 2026)
- Introducing Chargebotic — X post by @anis_neyo(accessed Apr 24, 2026)