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Kamal Shah Is Teaching Jobsite Photos to Speak Up Before the Truck Leaves
For three decades, the Oakland engineer has chased a stubborn problem: the gap between work completed in the field and proof that reaches the office. SiteCaptureAI is his latest attempt to close it while crews are still on site.
Swarup Mavanoor Is Building Solar's Memory
A cost overrun exposed a simple problem: solar projects forget too much. Swarup Mavanoor has spent the years since turning scattered images, field notes, and handoffs into a living record of the asset.
Deep Chakraborty Is Building Memory for the Rooftop
He arrived in America with one suitcase, a sitar and a ticket he still keeps. Decades later, Deep Chakraborty is trying to give every solar roof something the industry has often misplaced: a continuous memory from first sketch to long-term performance.
Jason Steinberg
Jason Steinberg is the CEO of Scanifly, a drone-based software platform that lets solar companies survey rooftops, build 3D models, run shading analysis, and produce permit-ready designs without repeated site visits or dangerous roof climbs. A CFA charterholder who once installed solar panels on New Jersey rooftops, he spent years financing renewable energy projects at Bloomberg New Energy Finance and CohnReznick Capital before taking the helm at Scanifly in 2018. He hosts the podcast 'When Life Gives You Lumens,' where he digs into how the solar industry can scale through better technology, safety, and workforce development.
Samuel Adeyemo
Samuel Adeyemo is the co-founder and CEO of Duranta, a Seattle software company building AI tools that help landscapers and lawn care businesses measure properties, design projects, and win contracts. Born in Nairobi and trained in finance at JP Morgan before pivoting to climate tech, he previously co-founded Aurora Solar, the solar design platform that grew to a reported $2 billion valuation and powers a large share of the U.S. residential solar market. In 2025 he raised a $7 million seed round for Duranta, backed by Base10 Partners, Pear, and angels including GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. His through-line is taking the unglamorous back-office work of physical-world trades and turning it into software.