Katie Clasen
Principal at Prelude Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2023 - Current
Prelude Ventures is a venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs to mitigate climate change by investing in the low carbon economy. Since 2013, we have invested in over 70 companies across advanced energy, food and agriculture, advanced computing, transportation and logistics, and advanced materials and manufacturing.
We invest in climate.
MBA Associate
2022 - 2023
Buoyant is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in digital solutions to climate risk across energy, agriculture & water, mobility, and the built environment.
Product
2022 - 2023
Through new battery materials chemistry, Sila Nano enables lighter, safer, higher energy density lithium-ion batteries for mass adoption of electric vehicles, smarter, longer-lasting portable electronics, and broader use of renewable power sources.
Senior Process Integration Engineer
2019 - 2022
Crude Flexibility Lead
2018 - 2019
Leading site effort to understand, prioritize, and address key constraints, risks, and opportunities associated with new site feedstock to promote supply flexibility and resiliency
Associate Process Engineer
2017 - 2018
Process engineer supporting operational monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization for atmospheric crude distillation, vacuum distillation, and catalytic reforming technologies
Graduate Process Engineer
2015 - 2017
Process engineer supporting operational monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization for hydrotreating, desulfurization, and multipoint flaring technologies
Shell Oil Company is an oil and gas company that explores and produces energy products.
Process Safety Engineer
2014 - 2014
Shell Oil Company is an oil and gas company that explores and produces energy products.
Process Improvement Engineer
2014 - 2014
Eastman Chemical Company-Tire Additives business is a segment of Eastman's business for the tire industry.
Technical Sales Engineer
2013 - 2013
Ashland provides specialty chemical solutions to customers ranging from consumer to industrial market.