David Martin is a co-founder of Power Ledger, the Perth company that lets neighbours trade rooftop solar power peer to peer. He co-founded it with Jemma Green and John Bulich. Martin has served as managing director.
Martin and Green met at an industry gathering in 2015. Green was a PhD candidate working on self-generated solar power. Martin came from the utilities industry. They conceived the idea that year, and the company was founded in 2016.
In 2017 Power Ledger raised about A$34 million in an initial coin offering. Its pre-sale sold out within 72 hours.
In 2018 the company won Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge. Origin Energy also ran a peer-to-peer trading trial on the platform that year.