Erik Kriessmann
Partner at Altimeter
Erik Kriessmann
Partner at Altimeter
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Board Member
2024
Series A lead
Board Member
2024
Series A lead
Investor
2023
Investor
2018
Series B
Investor
2020
Series A
Vice President
2019 - 2023
Scale, Confluent, Discord, Notion, Built, Linktree, Persona, Wiz, Starburst, Plaid, Pilot, Gong, Figma etc…
Director
2017 - 2019
We assist great entrepreneurs determined to build companies with lasting significance.
Associate
2014 - 2017
During my time at SPMB we were the #1 executive search firm in Silicon Valley. Our focus was on transformational hires at the Board, C-suite, and VP level for companies including: ServiceNow, Amazon, MongoDB, Snowflake, Okta, AppDynamics, DJI, Box, Pure Storage, Hortonworks, Cloudera, Confluent, Databricks, Hashicorp, Comcast, Fitbit, Nutanix, LuluLemon, Airbnb, Splunk, Uber, MuleSoft, Capital One, Coupa, Smartsheet, Zscaler and DocuSign. Analyst from August 2014 - Dec 2015
Business Operations Lead
2013 - 2014
Seed stage startup - joined as employee #5. Was known as the team's 5-tool player. I wore many hats from sales, marketing and business development to finance, merchandising and supply chain/logistics. Our team launched a kickstarter campaign raising $55K which gave us working capital to build out our supply chain for a new product launch that became the core of the business. Alongside the CEO, I helped build our GTM strategy when applying for a license with MLB and personally landed our biggest deal that year with the Texas Rangers. I built strategic partnerships and ran successful marketing campaigns with these partners opening up new distribution channels. Above all else focused on delivering happiness to our enterprise and individual customers.