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Hayes Barnard and the Mathematics of Enough
He learned to sell software, mortgages and solar. Then a school-building trip to Mali changed what he thought all that machinery was for.
Taehwan Yoon Is Turning the Neighbors Into the Power Company
A wind engineer returned from Denmark with a stubborn idea: clean power moves faster when the people living beside it own a piece of it. Thirteen years later, Taehwan Yoon is still turning that idea into financial infrastructure.
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 Is Making the Rebate Arrive Before the Paperwork
The Coral co-founder spent a career learning why good money moves too slowly. Now he is turning months of rebate bureaucracy into a discount homeowners can see at the kitchen table.