Galvanize Climate Solutions
Pre-Seed–Series B · 7 people tracked
Investment thesis
Multi-asset climate platform combining investments with Movement Capitalism and organized global activism, pledging over 25% of profits to climate justice and offering deep climate and policy expertise across company lifecycles.
Team · 7 people
from the firm's website
Evi Steyer co-leads Galvanize's early-stage climate fund, bringing practitioner-level regenerative agriculture experience from TomKat Ranch, advisory ties to the Oxford Smith School, and cross-asset sustainability pedigree from Generation and Astanor.
Anthony Cortese focuses on early-stage climate tech, connecting founders to broader climate capital and policy resources and convening food and agriculture-focused ecosystem events that link founders, investors, and sector experts.
Chloë Payne brings biomedicine and epidemiology training (Warwick, Imperial) and an Oxford MBA, focusing on pre-seed/seed climate startups at the nature–industry interface—food, agriculture, oceans, forestry—within a multi-strategy climate platform.
Cliff Ryan, co‑head of Innovation & Expansion, bridges early innovation and later-stage climate‑tech scaling, combining a decade in Riverstone energy private equity and an Executive‑in‑Residence role at Energy Impact Partners.
Katie Hall co-founded a climate-focused investment firm with Tom Steyer while leading a multi-family/endowment advisory platform, raising over $1 billion and building multi-asset strategies including profitable decarbonization of buildings.
Saloni Multani offers a full-stack investor perspective from private and public equity to early- and late-stage climate investing, and applies CFO-honed experience running high-pressure, large-scale operations to scale climate companies.
Veery Maxwell has expertise in how law and regulation shape climate markets, focuses on hard-to-abate sectors like cement, and translates between founders, regulators, and financiers.
What they invest in
from 9 of 18 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×5Climate Tech ×5Energy ×4Deep Tech ×3Enterprise Software ×3SaaS ×3Cleantech ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2
HQs:United States×3
Investments · 18 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathPrinceton, US
Brian Mixer(Director)Adam Wolf(Executive Officer, Director)Benjamin Siegfried(Director)
Crusoe builds energy-first AI infrastructure, using innovative and renewable energy sources to power hyperscale AI factories and a cloud platform for AI workloads.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnergy
Cully Cavness(Co-Founder)
Fervo Energy develops next-generation geothermal technology using advanced drilling and sensing techniques to unlock carbon-free, 24/7 power generation in previously uneconomic locations.
CleantechClimate TechEnergy
Plotlogic builds sensing technology that scans rock in surface and underground mines to deliver high-resolution material characterisation and quantitative data in under 15 minutes.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRed Hill
Steve Lennard(CEO)Andrew Job(Executive Officer, Director)Saman Farid(Director)Grant Allen(Director)Samantha Smith-Eppsteiner(Director)Alireza Tahmasebzadeh(Director)
Regrow provides software and services to help farmers and agricultural businesses adopt regenerative practices that reduce land-based emissions.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningClimate TechImpact & Social Good
Anastasia Volkova(CEO and Co-Founder)
Pulsora provides an ESG management platform that helps companies track, measure, and report on environmental, social, and governance performance.
Climate TechData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Worldly provides supply chain intelligence software for consumer goods brands, manufacturers, and retailers to measure, report, and improve their environmental and social impact.
Circular EconomyClimate TechData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Scott Raskin(CEO)James Schaffer(Chief Strategy Officer)Kevin Vranes(Chief Product Officer)John Armstrong(Chief Technology Officer)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Galvanize Climate Solutions invest at?
- Galvanize Climate Solutions invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B stages.
- What sectors does Galvanize Climate Solutions focus on?
- Galvanize Climate Solutions focuses on AgTech, Climate Tech, Energy, FoodTech, Mobility & Transportation, PropTech.
- Does Galvanize Climate Solutions lead rounds?
- Galvanize Climate Solutions typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
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