Erik Kriessmann
Partner at Altimeter
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Altimeter is a technology-focused investment firm managing a public equity fund and growth-stage private equity funds.
Board Member
2024
Series A lead
K2 Space focuses on the latest generation of launch vehicles that will open the doors to the solar system.
Raised $15,528,471.00 from Valhalla Ventures, Alpine Space Ventures, Earthrise Ventures, Republic capital, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Countdown Capital, First Round Capital, Also Capital, Nitesh Banta and Spacecadet Ventures.
Board Member
2024
Series A lead
Permiso Security delivers an identity-based cloud detection and response solution for cloud infrastructures.
Raised $28,500,000.00 from Point72 Ventures and Altimeter Capital.
Investor
2023
Investor
2018
Series B
Faire is a marketplace and wholesale platform that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores.
Raised $1,708,162,662.00 from Shopify.
Investor
2020
Series A
Found is a fintech company that provides business banking services for self-employed people.
Raised $121,199,997.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.
Vice President
2019 - 2023
Scale, Confluent, Discord, Notion, Built, Linktree, Persona, Wiz, Starburst, Plaid, Pilot, Gong, Figma etc…
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Director
2017 - 2019
We assist great entrepreneurs determined to build companies with lasting significance.
Khosla Ventures provides venture assistance to entrepreneurs in AI, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, health and frontier technologies.
Raised $1,500,000.00 from Raj Sareen.
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.
There are millions of organizations and influencers with passionate fans, but no good way to offer them apparel.
Raised $120,000.00 from iAngels and NFX.