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Andreas Wallendahl
Andreas Wallendahl is a co-founder and COO of Tenet, a New York fintech that makes electric-vehicle ownership cheaper by rewiring how EV loans get made. An MIT-trained engineer and former McKinsey consultant who helped build businesses inside Ethereum studio ConsenSys, he now partners with credit unions, green banks and asset managers to originate lower-cost EV financing, and bundles free smart-charging so customers save while they drive. Tenet has raised roughly $73 million in equity plus more than $100 million in committed loan funding.
Adam Silver
Adam Silver is the co-founder and CEO of Plural (Plural Finance / Plural Energy), a San Francisco startup building a financial operating system for energy infrastructure. Plural tokenizes real-world clean energy assets - solar arrays, batteries, and data centers - turning them into programmable, investable products, and runs a FINRA-member broker-dealer with a transfer agent license. A former Deloitte consultant and ServiceNow product lead, Silver became obsessed with what he calls 'the miracle of lights turning on,' then with the unacceptable difficulty of financing the assets behind it. In September 2025 Plural closed an oversubscribed $7.13M seed round led by Paradigm, bringing total funding to roughly $9.3M, with over $300M in distributed solar and battery assets available for investment.
Samir Pendse
Samir Pendse is the co-founder and CEO of Coral, a New York-based climate fintech that turns the maddening maze of utility rebates and tax credits into instant point-of-sale discounts. His pitch is plain: most people don't want a heat pump, they want a warm house at a price they can afford. Coral advances rebate money upfront so HVAC and electrical contractors can knock thousands off the invoice at the kitchen table, then handles the paperwork with utilities behind the scenes. After a decade spanning microfinance at Accion, small-business lending strategy at Boston Consulting Group, and fintech product work, Pendse co-founded Coral in 2023 with engineer Nizar Dhamani. In March 2026 the company raised a $7.5M seed led by ResilienceVC, with strategic backing from Watsco Ventures, North America's largest HVAC distributor.