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Erik Kriessmann

Partner at Altimeter

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Erik Kriessmann is a Partner at Altimeter in San Francisco, with a background in investing across various sectors including Entertainment & Sports, SaaS, and Enterprise. Notable highlights include investments in companies like Permiso Security and Faire (formerly Indigo Fair) at Series A stages.

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

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.

  • 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.

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