Supercharge returns from your battery portfolio.
Optimise and maximise returns from your portfolio of batteries and hybrids across multiple markets, locations, and cost structures. Bringing unique insights from years in the trenches, Hachiko removes the complexity of integrating, deploying, and operating batteries, so developers, traders, investors, fund managers, and independent power producers (IPPs) can move faster.
Built by operators, for operators
Hachiko’s founding team has developed deep insights into this domain over the last decade.
2015-2021
Buyer side
Projects built and traded in flexibility markets across the UK and Australia.
Problems identified and pain felt first-hand as a user of optimisation software.
2021-2023
Seller side
of sites optimised in multiple markets across multiple countries, for IPPs, energy retailers, and real estate owners.
2024
Buyer side
of project capital stalled due to software gaps.
2025
Hachiko is born!
Funding secured, team started, first sites onboarded.
2026
The train keeps rolling
Working with multiple IPPs and energy retailers throughout Australia, operating batteries and hybrids of all sizes.
Our customers
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Engineers across multiple disciplines, data scientists, project and market specialists
Founded in 2024 by Rakhesh Martyn, an expert in flexibility markets and energy projects across the entire life cycle. Now a specialist team building with ruthless efficiency, demonstrating an unrivalled operator’s instinct for what works best.
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How we work
At Hachiko, our values define how we think, decide, and act, especially when the work is complex, the stakes are high, our teammates are giving it their all, our customers have placed absolute faith in us, and the right answer is not obvious.
From concept to operation
Hachiko absorbs the complexity of integration, site configuration, markets, and network tariffs.
Configurable. Explainable. Reliable.
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Multi-market revenue optimisation
Hachiko manages every site and portfolio in keeping with the owner’s requirements. Optimisation can be steered by the owner/operator as they see fit.
Site onboarding made easy
Standardised connection for any battery vendor or site configuration. Qualify more sites successfully and onboard new assets quickly.
A digital twin of every site
Test new trading strategies safely before deploying them on operating assets.
Built for the people who own the risk
Project developers
If your financial model says you should build it, build it. Hachiko will take care of the complexity, every 5 minutes, at the trading aggression you set. Any inverter, with/without PV, with/without load.
Energy traders
One connection, multiple portfolios at your fingertips, the freedom to structure power purchase agreements that best suit your needs.
Project investors
Underwrite on modelled returns, then watch the same software deliver them. The digital twin you run diligence on is the platform that will run the assets.
Energy-as-a-service companies
Sell your Commercial & Industrial customers a smart battery right out of the box. We absorb the site-to-site complexity. You keep the customer.
Backed by
Backed by the best software and clean tech-focused investors in Australia and New Zealand.
Questions from owners and developers
Hachiko uses a standardised connection for any battery vendor or site configuration. You can qualify more sites successfully and onboard new assets quickly, without a bespoke integration project for every asset.
The platform enables varying trading aggression based on your return expectations, and manages all types of strategies, from fully merchant to fully contracted and combinations of the two, in keeping with the portfolio owner’s requirements.
Hachiko’s optimisation combines top-tier value capture and ruthlessly efficient software development with breadth and depth of experience across the entire project life cycle, which includes many years spent building projects just like those of our customers. This combination of skills is unique, and leads to the best customer experience you will ever get.
No-nonsense insights, written by expert operators
Complex energy concepts distilled and delivered with humour. You won’t find anything else like it.
Field Notes on video
Short explainers from the Hachiko team on optimisation, the Hachiko platform, and the market itself.
Ready when your portfolio is.
Bring your sites and your strategy. You’ll meet people who have been in your shoes before, helping you navigate through the energy maze to the pot of gold that’s waiting for you.