Erin Knight

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Principal at Pinecrest Seed Fund | ex-Deloitte

Pinecrest Seed Fund
Salt Lake City, UT · MT (UTC-7)
8+ years experience
Rice University
English, Hindi
Investing
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Overview

8 years around startups; now investing in AI applications. Backed 13 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Deloitte and Visa. Most at home with product and applied ML.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in AI applications
  • Questions about AI applications
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on venture capital
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
Skills
productventure capitalapplied ML
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into Series An AI applications in the Nordics

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
AI applications
Geographies
India
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Typically lead or co-lead. We reply to every founder.

Salt Lake City, UT · remote OKapplied mlproductventure capital
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Jan 2025 - Present
    Pinecrest Seed Fund · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
    • Backed 45 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 7 boards.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
    Deloitte · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 18 days to 2.
    • Grew logistics revenue from $1 million to $36 million ARR.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
    Visa · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Launched the payments product in 4 markets.
  4. Director of Product
    Oct 2018 - Sep 2020
    Verizon · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Grew AI products revenue from $5 million to $55 million ARR.

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Education

  1. Rice University
    BA, Economics
    2014 - 2018

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