Venture Capital

Point Nine Capital

Point Nine Capital is a thesis-driven, early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It is one of Europe's best-known seed investors, specializing in B2B SaaS, B2B marketplaces, developer tools and infrastructure, fintech, digital health, and increasingly AI across digital, physical, and biological domains. Point Nine typically writes initial checks of roughly $1M-$10M (EUR 0.5M-5M) and aims to be the first institutional investor for "v0.9" founders graduating from friends-and-family capital. The firm runs a deliberately small, equal partnership in which each partner works closely with only 6-8 companies at a time to provide deep operational support. Since inception it has backed more than 160 startups across 30+ countries, including early bets on Algolia, Chainalysis, Clio, Contentful, Delivery Hero, Docplanner, Factorial, Front, Loom, Mambu, NexHealth, Revolut, Typeform, Zendesk, and Westwing, with 11+ companies reaching unicorn status.

174 portfolio companies 173 publish APIs here 10 properties
Venture CapitalSeedPre-SeedSeries AB2B SaaSMarketplacesDeveloper ToolsFintechArtificial IntelligenceEuropeBerlinGermany
Portfolio Strength across 173 profiled portfolio companies on the network
10 top-rated API companies 1 exemplar · 9 strong
19 agent-ready companies 4 agent-native · 15 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 24.4
Agent-Readiness human-only 11.0

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Point Nine Capital has 174 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 173 (99%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Junction, Unbounce, Gladly, Algolia, ZenML.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 9 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 35 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 29 Limited public surface area
Emerging 46 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 53 Almost no public developer surface

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Cohort brief

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The 173 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Point Nine Capital, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
173
all scored
Mean Kin Score
24
+3.3 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
10.6
+0.9 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
0.1–74.7
median 15.7 · σ 17.5
How the 173 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 6Developing 35Thin 27Emerging 49Minimal 54
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 30.1 22.3 +7.8 173
Developer Ergonomics 21.9 17.9 +4 173
Operational Transparency 14.2 11.3 +2.9 173
Discoverability 62.1 60.4 +1.7 173
Contract Quality 18.4 17.5 +0.9 173
Contract Governance 6.8 6.4 +0.4 173

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 28% 16% +12
MCP server (first-party) 8% 7% +1
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 9% 9% 0
Security 94% 88% +6
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 6% 13% -7

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Vital 74.7
  2. 2 Unbounce 68.7
  3. 3 CloudTalk 59
  4. 4 Zendesk 58.1
  5. 5 Kaiko 57.5
  6. 6 Gladly 57
  7. 7 TheBrief 55.7
  8. 8 Whereby 54.3
  9. 9 Duplo 53.7
  10. 10 Factorial 52.8
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Unbounce 59.6
  2. 2 Revolut 54
  3. 3 Candis 51.3
  4. 4 Qwilr 41.6
  5. 5 FrontApp 41.4
  6. 6 Vital 40.6
  7. 7 Contentful 36.1
  8. 8 Zendesk 35.9
  9. 9 CloudTalk 35.8
  10. 10 PersistIQ 35.8
All 173 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: point-nine
name: Point Nine Capital
description: >-
  Point Nine Capital is a thesis-driven, early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 and
  headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It is one of Europe's best-known seed investors, specializing in
  B2B SaaS, B2B marketplaces, developer tools and infrastructure, fintech, digital health, and
  increasingly AI across digital, physical, and biological domains. Point Nine typically writes
  initial checks of roughly $1M-$10M (EUR 0.5M-5M) and aims to be the first institutional investor
  for "v0.9" founders graduating from friends-and-family capital. The firm runs a deliberately small,
  equal partnership in which each partner works closely with only 6-8 companies at a time to provide
  deep operational support. Since inception it has backed more than 160 startups across 30+ countries,
  including early bets on Algolia, Chainalysis, Clio, Contentful, Delivery Hero, Docplanner, Factorial,
  Front, Loom, Mambu, NexHealth, Revolut, Typeform, Zendesk, and Westwing, with 11+ companies reaching
  unicorn status.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.pointnine.com/favicon.ico
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Pre-Seed
  - Series A
  - B2B SaaS
  - Marketplaces
  - Developer Tools
  - Fintech
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Europe
  - Berlin
  - Germany
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.pointnine.com
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.pointnine.com/companies
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/point-nine-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.pointnine.com/team
  - type: Team
    url: team/point-nine-team.yml
  - type: Blog
    url: https://writing.pointnine.com
  - type: Newsletter
    url: https://writing.pointnine.com
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/point-nine-capital/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/pointninecap
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/point-nine-capital
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Pre-seed, Seed, Series A (first institutional check)'
      - 'Typical check: $1M-$10M (EUR 0.5M-5M initial ticket)'
      - 'Sectors: B2B SaaS, B2B marketplaces, developer tools & infrastructure, fintech, digital health, AI'
      - 'Geography: Europe-based, investing globally (160+ startups in 30+ countries)'
      - 'Founded: 2011'
      - 'HQ: Berlin, Germany'
      - 'Notable: 11+ unicorns incl. Algolia, Contentful, Revolut, Zendesk, Delivery Hero, Loom, Mambu'
    sources:
      - https://www.pointnine.com
      - https://www.pointnine.com/companies
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Point Nine Capital
    url: https://www.pointnine.com

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