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
8 top-rated API companies 2 exemplar · 6 strong
41 agent-ready companies 3 agent-native · 38 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 25.1
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 15.2

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 Zendesk, Factorial, ZenML, Kaiko, Junction.

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 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 29 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 30 Limited public surface area
Emerging 52 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 54 Almost no public developer surface

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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.
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  onboarding: unknown
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  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.pointnine.com/favicon.ico
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x-category: Venture Capital
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Pre-Seed
  - Series A
  - B2B SaaS
  - Marketplaces
  - Developer Tools
  - Fintech
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Europe
  - Berlin
  - Germany
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modified: '2026-07-17'
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  - type: Twitter
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  - type: Crunchbase
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    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
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    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Point Nine Capital
    url: https://www.pointnine.com