Point Nine
Venture capital firm · Berlin, Germany · Founded 2011 · Active in 2026
Point Nine was founded in Berlin in 2011 by Christoph Janz and Pawel Chudzinski. The firm is one of Europe's most established Seed-stage SaaS specialists — pure B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and developer tools, almost always at the Seed round.
Christoph Janz's "5 Ways to Build a $100M Business" framework is widely cited in the SaaS founder community. Notable bets include Algolia, Zendesk, Clio, Revolut, and Loom.
The 22 Point Nine Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue and above).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA8
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Germany7
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Spain2
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Netherlands2
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Canada2
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UK1
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eCommerce & Marketplaces5
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Other B2B Software4
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AI3
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Fintech3
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Marketing3
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Health Tech & Medtech2
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Other1
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Edtech1
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Series B+1
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Seed21
Point Nine's 22 Power Law outcomes.
Toggle between a sector landscape and a world map. Both views respond to the stage and outcome-tier filters. The faded names at the bottom of bigger boxes are part of the full list — click "+ N more" to reveal them.
Where Point Nine's founders come from — and where they study.
52 founders across the 22 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Rocket Internet are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Point Nine.
How does Point Nine stack up?
Point Nine in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — filter by region or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of global unicorns minted that year — peaks reveal vintage years.
Stage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsShare of new unicorns per year
% of all global unicorns minted that year, year by yearWant the full picture on Point Nine?
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