Senator Sheldon Whitehouse joins Galvanize Chief Strategy Officer David Livingston and Co-Chair Secretary John Kerry to discuss permitting reform, energy affordability, and accelerating infrastructure investment.

Last week, we convened investors, founders, corporate leaders, and policymakers at San Francisco’s Ferry Building for the 2026 Galvanize Solutions Summit. Under the theme “Drivers of the New Economy,” we explored how advances in energy and intelligence are reshaping industries—and where capital can accelerate deployment, build leading businesses, and generate long-term value.

Across the day’s conversations, a few ideas emerged about what it will take to translate technological progress into lasting economic value:

• AI and electrification are reshaping the foundations of the economy. Economist Noah Smith explored the implications for infrastructure investment and industrial competitiveness, while Eric Schmidt joined Secretary John Kerry for an off-the-record conversation on the frontiers of AI across markets, society, and energy.
• Scaling innovation requires industrial capacity and the ability to execute. Dan Wang examined China’s manufacturing strengths and their implications for global competition, complementing discussions on financing, supply chains, and workforce needs across nuclear, mobility, and commercial space.
• Durable progress depends on public trust and tangible results. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse discussed permitting and the path to building critical infrastructure, while Ambassador Rahm Emanuel explored the political landscape and the importance of delivering on affordability and economic opportunity.

Bringing these perspectives together helps us understand where demand is durable, which constraints create investment opportunities, and what gives businesses a lasting competitive advantage. The insights and relationships built at the Summit inform our work across sectors and asset classes throughout the year.

We look forward to sharing more Summit takeaways over the coming weeks.

Galvanize Real Estate Expands Across California

GRE’s first California acquisitions — a four-property, 300,000-square-foot industrial portfolio in Milpitas and a three-property, 280,000-square-foot portfolio in Orange County — bring its nationwide footprint to 3.8 million square feet.

Both business plans include behind-the-meter solar, battery storage, and EV charging. Milpitas marks GRE’s first deployment of a behind-the-meter renewable program, expected to generate more than 1,000 MWh annually; Orange County’s program is expected to add 475 MWh.

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Galvanize Leads $70 Million Project Financing for AMP

Galvanize Credit & Capital Solutions led $70 million in project debt financing for AMP’s new sorting facility and organics processing system in Portsmouth, Virginia, under its 20-year partnership with the regional public waste authority.

AMP uses AI, cameras, robotics, and air jets to recover plastics, metals, fiber, and organics from unseparated household waste, capturing materials that would otherwise go to landfill.

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The Efficiency Era of AI: Why an Emerging Frontier of Climate Investing Is Moving Upstream

With power infrastructure facing multi-year lead times, getting more useful computation from each megawatt is an economic advantage. We examine an overlooked investment opportunity: the engineering systems that determine how efficiently future hardware uses power.

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Technical Depth as Investment Edge

Engineering, materials, manufacturing, and deployment can determine investment outcomes. Learn how Galvanize’s Science, Technology & Impact team tests the technical, economic, and scaling assumptions behind investment theses.

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Behind the Building: Aligning Incentives with Decarbonization

GRE’s Nicolette Jaze and Galvanize’s Anant Udpa explain how the team’s long-term incentives reward cumulative emissions reductions from each building’s baseline, encouraging the transformation of inefficient assets.

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Bloomberg: Galvanize’s $1 Billion Real Estate Strategy Targets California

GRE’s Joe Sumberg spoke with Gautam Naik about how acquisition pricing and high electricity costs create opportunities to improve industrial properties through energy upgrades.

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Note: Galvanize Real Estate has $1 billion in investment capacity, inclusive of $370 million in capital committed to Galvanize Real Estate Fund I, co-investment, and allowed leverage.

Axios: Amp Closes $70M Project Debt for Recycling Plants

Katie Fehrenbacher covered GCCS’s financing for AMP’s next two Portsmouth facilities and the company’s expansion.

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Congratulations to Meghan Pasricha, Partner, Credit & Capital Solutions, who was named to PEI Group’s 2026 Women of Influence in Private Markets list.

Across our venture and growth portfolio, companies are scaling technologies and systems that support electrification, resilient infrastructure, and data-driven decision-making:

• Crusoe raised $3.9 billion in Series F funding to scale its vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform.
• Fervo Energy declared commercial operation at Cape Station in Utah on September 30. The first 33 MW unit is now earning revenue under its power purchase agreement, with two more units due online by January 2027.
• Muon Space and Earth Fire Alliance released the first active-fire images from the operational FireSat constellation, which can detect fires as small as five by five meters.
• VEIR raised a $110 million Series C to deliver its first commercial superconducting power projects inside AI data centers.
• Watershed announced an alliance with EY US that pairs EY’s advisory and implementation work with Watershed’s platform for emissions measurement and sustainability reporting.
• X-energy’s Xe-100 reactor was accepted into the UK’s Generic Design Assessment, advancing plans with Centrica for up to 6 GW of advanced nuclear in the UK.

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