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.
Investor
2023
Investor
2023
SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that focuses on reducing the costs associated with space travel by using reusable rockets.
Raised $9,770,343,846.00 from Roman Smolevskiy.
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
Series A
Board Observer
2023
Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
Raised $633,100,000.00 from Index Ventures, Coatue, Bond, Altimeter Capital, FirstMark, Greenoaks, Google Ventures, K5 Global, Lone Pine Capital and JP Morgan Chase.
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
2022
Sourced + Co-lead Seed while at Index with my friend/colleague Chris Ahn. Eric Stromberg who was at Bedrock at the time was other co-lead. Acq. by Stripe for $1.1B
Bridge is developer of an application programming interface for money movement within the financial technology sector.
Raised $58,000,000.00 from Sequoia, Haun Ventures, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital and Diogo Mónica.