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Erin Price-Wright is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she invests in companies that promote American Dynamism, with an emphasis on teams building AI for the physical world. Her investment focus spans robotics, energy, manufacturing, industrials, and defense. She has led investments in companies like Base Power, Mariana Minerals, Diode Computing, and Swan Technologies. She also runs the team’s Engineering Fellows program to help get top technical talent excited about building American Dynamism.
She was previously a partner at Index Ventures focused on software infrastructure and applied AI, where she invested in companies like Clickhouse, BRINC Drones, and Phaidra. Before investing, Erin spent most of her career at Palantir. She started as a Forward Deployed Engineer and helped build the Industrials business, working with customers across energy, natural resources, manufacturing, and chemicals. She later helped build and run Palantir’s Product organization, and was Head of Product for Palantir’s data analytics and machine learning platform.
She holds an MSc from the University of Oxford in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a BS in Engineering from Stanford University. Originally from Arizona, she lives with her family in the SF Bay Area.
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