2019 - 2020
2018 to 2020
Founder and CEO at Jumpstart Energy
Founded and sold Jumpstart Energy. The first company I built that had to change shape under me because reality refused to cooperate with the original plan.
Jumpstart did not start as a lending-analytics company. The original idea was a global marketplace for clean-energy capital. That idea ran into securities law, project economics, and investor-developer mismatch. The eventual business that worked was an ML underwriting product for solar loans, bootstrapped to profitability and sold.
2018 - 2019
Selected coverage and IP
Fast Company on Jumpstart Energy
Feature on making it easier to invest in clean energy projects.
Integrated Machine Learning-Based Methods and Systems for Automating Financial Data Analysis and Interpretation
US patent application, docket #08059-P0001A. Filed during Jumpstart Energy and covers the technical foundation of Jumpstart's alternative-data credit model.
Founder notes
Post-mortem of Jumpstart (Part I/II)
My writeup of the original marketplace idea, the investor / developer mismatch, and why the first version of the company had to change shape.
Post-mortem of Jumpstart (Part II/II)
A closer look at the underwriting pivot, the technical model, the limits of solar lending data, and the lessons I took from selling the company.
Jumpstarting the Energy Market
The original long-form thesis behind Jumpstart: universal electricity access, renewable infrastructure, and why I initially believed a marketplace could redirect capital more effectively.