Christoph Janz
Point Nine Capital
Germany
Invests in
Sectors:
Min Investment:
$580,000.00Max Investment:
$3,500,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Lists including Christoph
Investments
CloudTalk
Total Funding: $36M
Creatopy
Total Funding: $10M
Polar Analytics
Total Funding: $10M
GOURMEY
Total Funding: $58M
Mavenoid
Total Funding: $40M
Lottielab
Total Funding: $4M
Athenian
Total Funding: $9M
Juro
Total Funding: $31M
Factorial
Total Funding: $300M
NexHealth
Total Funding: $180M
Work Experience
2011
Managing Partner
2011
Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage internet investments that I co-founded in 2011. We have invested in SaaS startups such as Algolia, Automile, Contentful, and Typeform, as well as online marketplaces like Brainly, DocPlanner, and StarOfService.
Angel Investor
2008 - 2011
2005 - 2008
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer (acquired by LiveUniverse)
2005 - 2008
- As Pageflakes' founding CEO, I led the company from inception through major platform launches, award-winning product designs, Series A funding from Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Europe) and executive hiring. - Hired industry veteran out of Yahoo! as CEO and subsequently drove Pageflakes' product development, responsible for overall product vision, roadmap planning and execution. - Following the company's relocation to SF and its acquisition by LiveUniverse, stepped down from CPO position to become an advisor to the CEO.
2000 - 2005
Advisor
2000 - 2005
tangible engineering GmbH, euforo GmbH, CalendarHub Inc
Non-exec co-founder
2003 - 2004
As a close advisor to the CEO, I helped build one of the first social networking services in Germany.
1997 - 2000
Co-founder & Managing Director
1997 - 2000
Co-founded DealPilot.com, an early leader in online comparison shopping, funded by Bertelsmann Ventures.
1993 - 1997
Co-founder & Managing Director
1993 - 1997
Software mail-order and PC game development