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Erica Knowlton Bennett

Erica Knowlton Bennett

Chief of Staff

“In my role as Chief of Staff, I work alongside partner Todd Jackson to evaluate new opportunities, perform diligence on potential investments, and support founders in the First Round community.”

Throughout my career, I’ve worked with founders to translate technical topics for their broader audiences, and I am inspired by entrepreneurs who are solving incredibly complex problems for their customers.

Prior to First Round, Erica worked at Confluent, the foundational platform for data-in-motion. As one of the first marketing hires, she led all external communications, customer marketing, community, and events. As the company grew, she saw the need for a scalable way to share information and communicate with a distributed workforce. Partnering with the executive team, she designed and launched the internal communications function to help employees stay connected to the mission and vision as the company grew to 2,000+ employees globally.