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Christina Karapataki

Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview 

Christina Karapataki is a Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in energy, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. With a Master's Degree from MIT and extensive experience on the boards of various energy and technology companies, she excels in strategic analysis, due diligence, and business development within the clean energy sector. Karapataki's career highlights include her role as a Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, where she focuses on investing in impactful ClimateTech and CleanTech startups, and her board memberships at ReMo Energy, Inc and Planted Solar, showcasing her expertise in driving innovation and sustainability within the energy industry.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2017 - Current

    Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) invests in companies that leverage innovative technologies to help address climate change. Backed by many of the world’s top business leaders, BEV has more than $1 billion in committed capital to support bold entrepreneurs building companies that can significantly reduce emissions from agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation. The fund was created in 2016 by the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.

  • Board Member

    2023

    ReMo is developing a fleet of distributed-scale ammonia plants that use renewable energy to make nitrogen fertilizers at prices competitive with those from the giant natural gas-fueled suppliers.

ReMo Energy is an innovator and manufacturer of industrial materials through the use of renewable energy in lieu of fossil fuels.

Raised $5,250,000.00 from Alpha Impact Investment Management Partners, Darco Capital and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Solar power plant deployment using robotics and automation.

Planted Solar designs and build solar power plants using software and robots

Raised $21,600,000.00 from Khosla Ventures and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Unlock zero-emission energy embedded in natural gas using methane pyrolysis and thermocatalysis to extract the carbon a dense solid and hydrogen.

C-Zero is unlocking the zero-emission energy embedded in natural gas

Raised $50,500,000.00 from AP Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, SK Gas, Trafigura, Eni Next, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and ENGIE New Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Antora Energy is electrifying heavy industry with thermal energy storage for zero-carbon heat and power.

Antora Energy is electrifying heavy industry with thermal energy storage for zero-carbon heat and power.

Raised $219,959,779.00 from ARPA-E.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Modular lithium refining – Enabling the lowest cost production of battery grade lithium hydroxide

  • Board Member

    2021

    Making CO2 mineralisation feasible, accessible, and scalable.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Enabling affordable green hydrogen production at scale.

  • Board Observer

    2020

    Bloom selectively converts the most abundant biopolymers – cellulose & lignin – into added-value chemical products.

  • Board Observer

    2019

    Next-generation geothermal developer generating clean power.

Fervo Energy develops clean energy technology to generate carbon-free energy from geothermal systems.

Raised $531,000,000.00 from DCVC, Capricorn Investment Group and Congruent Ventures.

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