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Point Nine
Venture capital firm · 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.
Sequoia’s biggest exits.
Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
The 24 Point Nine Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA9
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Germany8
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Spain2
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Canada2
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Netherlands2
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UK1
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AI5
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eCommerce & Marketplaces5
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Marketing4
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Other B2B Software3
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Fintech3
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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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Seed22
Point Nine’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Point Nine’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 5 companies where Point Nine is a named shareholder, worth about $312M in estimated equity value.
Estimated value = Point Nine’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Point Nine also appears inside investor groups in Chainalysis, Clio, Mambu, Xeneta, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Point Nine’s biggest exits.
Point Nine portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Point Nine's 24 Power Law outcomes.
How does Point Nine stack up?
Point Nine in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location 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 unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
78 founders across the 24 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Rocket Internet are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Point Nine.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Point Nine
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Point Nine on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
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In the news
Latest news about Point Nine
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