Hot on the heels of closing a “new” €40m fund, Point Nine Capital is announcing its involvement in another investment today. Together with Runa Capital, it’s leading a $2 million Series A round in Berlin-based Mambu, the SaaS for alternative finance and “micro-finance” organisations mainly in Africa and South America. Existing investor Kizoo Technology Ventures also participated. → Read More
Point Nine Capital, the Berlin-based VC that originally spun out of the investment arm of German incubator Team Europe, has announced that it has closed Point Nine Capital II, a €40 million (~$53.7m) fund focused on early-stage Internet investments of approximately €1m upwards in Europe and beyond.
Meanwhile, Team Europe’s Lukasz Gadowski and Kolja Hebenstreit are stepping down from their… → Read More
Explicitly or implicitly, users are generating an insurmountable amount of data online, hence the plethora of startups touting their BIG DATA credentials by building applications or services that create utility out of these mass data points. Kreditech, which describes itself as a ‘Scoring as a Service’, is one such startup, with technology that claims to process over 8,000 data points in… → Read More
Cracow, Poland-based social learning network Brainly, which operates a number of sites across Europe, has secured a $500k investment from VC firm Point Nine Capital and local angels, including Mariusz Gralewski, founder of the Polish professional network GoldenLine, and the founders of niania.pl, the largest “nannies platform” in Poland (sold to Edipresse).
The company says that the new… → Read More
Hey, what are you doing reading TechCrunch at work? Unless, of course, reading TechCrunch is your job. I know, you’re on a break, right? Okay, continue as you were…
ShiftPlanning, which offers a web-based platform to help employers schedule and co-ordinate their workforce, has raised a $1 million Series A round led by Berlin-based Point Nine Capital. This follows an undisclosed seed round… → Read More
Exclusive – Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm Point Nine Capital has become the first European investor in CouchSurfing, a site that helps travelers connect with locals worldwide to share accommodation, experiences and whatnot.
The investment is in fact an extension of the $7.6 million Series A round raised from Benchmark Capital and Omidyar Network in August 2011. → Read More
Team Europe Ventures, the investment arm of German incubator Team Europe, is being rebranded as Point Nine Capital (PNC). Additionally, serial entrepreneur and angel investor Christoph Janz is joining its leadership team.
To date, the fund, which focuses on early-stage companies in the Internet and mobile space, has invested in over 10 startups, including inFakt, Lieferheld, Madvertise… → Read More
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