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Sandeep Yeole and the Quiet Architecture of Customer Experience
For more than two decades, Sandeep Yeole has worked where complicated systems meet ordinary people. At Lumber, the security-and-fintech veteran is helping construction payroll feel less like a puzzle and more like a service.
Chris Woodard Is Making Construction's Paper Trail Pay
The Handle co-founder moved from measuring marketing funnels to untangling liens, waivers and late payments. Now he is helping turn construction's paperwork into a connected financial system - with AI waiting on clean data.
Riley Lovingood Has Built a Career Around the Snap
The former Tennessee long snapper now runs PAYRA, a Nashville fintech built for businesses that cannot pause to replace the systems keeping their money moving.
Matt Calvano
Matt Calvano is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive, a New York-based AI-native accounting and financial management platform built for the construction industry. A former real estate private equity investor and Morgan Stanley banker turned Stanford MBA, he launched Adaptive in 2022 with two Stanford classmates and has raised $26.4M from Emergence Capital and Andreessen Horowitz to attack the paperwork chaos and cash leakage inside the $2 trillion construction sector.
Catherine Jiang
Catherine Jiang is the founder and CEO of Dill, a Y Combinator-backed (W23) software company that helps construction suppliers automate accounts receivable, online payments, credit applications, and lien rights management to get paid faster. A second-time founder, she previously co-founded SiteTrace (acquired by BuildCentrix) and was a product manager at Yelp. She holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford. Dill launched in 2023 serving foodservice distributors and later refocused on the construction supply chain, where late payments and paper-based invoicing choke cash flow.
Yaser Masoudnia
Yaser Masoudnia is the co-founder and CEO of BlueTape, a fintech company that gives the construction industry's suppliers, contractors and distributors the payment tools and working capital they have long been denied. A serial entrepreneur and a licensed general contractor with over a decade swinging a hammer, he previously built and exited the cybersecurity startup NoPassword (acquired by LogMeIn), then ran the LastPass product team. He started coding games on a Commodore 64 at 13 in Iran and now splits his identity between two worlds most people keep apart: software and construction sites.