Ollie Graham-Yooll is heading to The Utopia Studio after four years as principal venture builder at BP's Omni-Sci Labs incubator.
Former BP venture builder Ollie Graham-Yooll has moved to The Utopia Studio, the venture building arm of Qatar government-backed venture capital firm Utopia Capital Management, as chief product and operations officer.
Graham-Yooll had spent four years as principal venture builder at oil and gas provider BP, as part of its Omni-Sci Labs incubator programme, which GCV understands is now shuttered. He had previously spent two years as deeptech venture lead at French consulting group Sia’s growth and innovation practice.
“We grew to 100-plus people, shipped 15-plus ventures a year from Gravity Imaging to Code Reviews, and delivered an exit in Puls8 becoming a transformative safety technology,” Graham-Yooll said, in a LinkedIn post announcing the move.
“We challenged and built in the unknown. It was never boring, and thank you to everyone below and beyond that made this such a special team.”
Graham-Yooll’s move comes a few weeks after the departure of Omni-Sci’s head of engineering, Rick Avendaño, who left to focus on CEO roles at two startups: geospatial intelligence tool developer Asteroid.Dev and AI trust and compliance technology developer Catapult.AI.
This article was amended on 12 December 2025 to reflect information about Omni-Sci Lab’s status
