Christina Karapataki
Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
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.