Christina Karapataki has left her venture principal position at Schlumberger Technology Investments, the corporate venturing vehicle for oil services group Schlumberger, to join venture capital fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV).
BEV is an investor-led fund made up of members of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, guided by scientific and technological expertise and committed to “investing patiently in developing new ways to live, eat, travel and build.”
The coalition’s leadership is made up of entrepreneurial investors and scientists, and the fund targets early-stage innovations in the emissions-free energy, agriculture and consumer goods sectors. Karapataki has taken an investor role at BEV.
While at Schlumberger, Karapataki was responsible for sourcing opportunities, technical evaluation and structuring joint development agreements, in addition to overseeing about half of Schlumberger’s portfolio companies, with responsibility ranging from monitoring a startup’s evolution to sitting on boards as a director.
Karapataki led investments in semiconductor technology developer Nantero and cybersecurity service provider Onapsis while at the unit, and co-led deals for chemical analysis device developer 908 Devices and oil recovery technology producer Naturafrac.
Karapataki was a board director of Wirescan, which develops cable monitoring products and services, and board observer at 908 Devices and Parsable. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was one of Global Corporate Venturing’s Rising Stars in 2016 and 2017.
– Photo of Christina Karapataki courtesy of LinkedIn.
