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Nadav Gur Has Spent 25 Years Making Invisible Systems Behave
Before apps were obvious, he built a travel assistant. Before conversational search was fashionable, he spun one out of SRI. Now Nadav Gur is applying the same systems instinct to the awkward economics of shared clean energy.
Jaime Martinez Wants Solar to Feel Like a Cell-Phone Plan
The Terra founder turned a trading-floor objection into a rooftop subscription. Now he is betting that the winning energy company will feel less like a construction project and more like a service people choose to keep.
Arnold Leitner Has Been Redesigning Power Since He Was 19
A teenage passive-house project became a 35-year argument with the electric grid. Now the physicist behind SkyFuel and Leitnium is betting that homes should make, store, and command their own power.
Zach Dell
Zach Dell is the co-founder and CEO of Base Power, an Austin battery-and-electricity company he started in 2023 with former SpaceX and Anduril manufacturing leader Justin Lopas. Base sells homeowners a leased backup battery for a one-time $695 plus a $19 monthly membership and retail electricity, then knits those household batteries into a distributed grid that charges on cheap overnight power and discharges at peak. In under three years the company raised a $1 billion Series C at a roughly $4 billion valuation and, by mid-2026, was in talks to raise again near a $12 billion valuation. The son of Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell, Zach traces his energy obsession to college experiments that included trying to lease a Hawaiian lava field for solar and building anaerobic digesters in India.
Chris Griffin
Chris Griffin is the co-founder and CEO of Hover Energy, a Dallas company that builds patented Wind-Powered Microgrids - arrays of 36kW rooftop turbines paired with solar and storage that let commercial buildings make their own clean power. An aerospace engineer turned Wall Street financier turned clean-energy entrepreneur, Griffin spent roughly two decades chasing the same idea before one of his rooftop systems rode out 105 mph gusts during Hurricane Ian. He has since taken the technology international, with a Royal Navy installation in Liverpool and a joint venture to scale deployments for blue-chip clients.
Sanjiv Sanghavi
Sanjiv Sanghavi is the co-founder and CEO of Texture, a New York company building an operating system for the distributed energy grid that ingests data from batteries, solar, EVs, chargers and smart devices and lets utilities act on it in real time. He co-founded ClassPass before fitness was a category, ran product as CPO at the supply-side energy giant Arcadia, and now wires together a fragmented grid that was built to push power one direction and is being asked to do the opposite. Texture has raised roughly $23M and counts more than 50 OEM integrations including Tesla, FranklinWH and SolarEdge.