EK

Erik Kriessmann

Partner at Altimeter

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Skills

Work Experience

2023

  • Partner

    2023

  • Board Member

    2024

    Series A lead

  • Board Member

    2024

    Series A lead

  • Investor

    2023

2018

  • Investor

    2018

    Series B

2020

  • Investor

    2020

    Series A

2019 - 2023

  • Vice President

    2019 - 2023

    Scale, Confluent, Discord, Notion, Built, Linktree, Persona, Wiz, Starburst, Plaid, Pilot, Gong, Figma etc…

2017 - 2019

  • Director

    2017 - 2019

    We assist great entrepreneurs determined to build companies with lasting significance.

2014 - 2017

  • 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.