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Trust
Ensure that customers can see, understand, and question how and why their assets are being operated, so trust is built through clarity rather than blind faith.
About Hachiko
Built by operators, for operators
Founded in 2024, Hachiko was created by industry experts with extensive experience in energy project development, construction, battery optimisation, portfolio management, and energy trading.
Our mission
To empower battery developers, owners, investors, and traders to unlock the full potential of every site and deliver market-leading returns.
How we got here
Our story so far
Hachiko’s founding team has developed deep insights into this domain over the last decade. The platform is purpose-built to handle the complex technical and commercial realities of managing batteries at scale.
2015-2021
Buyer side
100s
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
1000s
of sites optimised in multiple markets across multiple countries, for IPPs, energy retailers, and real estate owners.
2024
Buyer side
>$500m
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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The crew
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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Our culture
Culture and careers
Our values
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.
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Humility
Listen deeply to customers’ lived experience of their assets and constraints, and adapt our thinking rather than assuming we know best.
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Decisive ownership
Act decisively when customer assets, returns, or confidence are at stake, and own the outcome rather than passing risk or ambiguity back to them.
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Empathetic honesty
Be open about trade-offs, uncertainty, and system limits, especially when the message is uncomfortable.
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Excellence through collaboration
Treat customers and partners as collaborators, not mere inputs.
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Adaptability with intention
Adapt our approach as customer needs, market conditions, or constraints change, without introducing unnecessary underperformance, instability, or surprise.
Backed by
Backed by the best software and clean tech-focused investors in Australia and New Zealand.
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