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.
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 73 (42%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 100 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Algolia, Zendesk, Revolut, Unbounce, Front.
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.
Exemplar5Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 156 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.
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
Artifact
This cohort
Catalog
Difference
MCP server (any)
21%
15%
+6
MCP server (first-party)
21%
13%
+8
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
12%
12%
0
Security
99%
98%
+1
Arazzo workflows
2%
2%
0
Governance rules
8%
18%
-10
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.
This roster declares 173 members; 170
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 156 carry a score
(92%). The figures above describe the scored members only. Coverage caveat. 143 of 156 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of
2 November 2026, across 37080
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.
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:
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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
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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
- Marketplace
- Developer Tools
- Fintech
- Artificial Intelligence
- Europe
- Berlin
- Germany
tags_raw:
- 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'
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- 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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