Chris Rivest

Chris Rivest is a Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, where investment efforts focus on innovative technologies aimed at combating climate change, with over $2 billion in committed capital. Since March 2023, Chris Rivest serves as an Investor and Board Member at GeologicAI and a Founding Investor and Chairman of the Board at Graphyte. Other ongoing board memberships include Nobell Foods, Nature's Fynd, and Turntide Technologies, with additional investor roles in companies such as ArkeaBio, Pivot Bio, Dandelion Energy, and Motif FoodWorks, Inc. Chris Rivest holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pursued a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.