Christoph Janz
Managing Partner at Point Nine
Christoph Janz
Managing Partner at Point Nine
Germany
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2011 - Current
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.
Investor & Advisor
2008
I'm a private investor in a number of great companies. I try to help the companies I've invested in in various ways, including marketing, recruiting and financing.
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.
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.
Co-founder & Managing Director
1997 - 2000
- Co-founded DealPilot.com and turned it into the leading online comparison shopping service for media products. - In two rounds of funding, raised more than $10M from angel investors, BV Capital and Bertelsmann. - Responsible for product design and product management of price comparison web site and toolbar. - Played key role in strategic development, financial planning, monetization, marketing and PR.
Co-founder & Managing Director
1993 - 1997
Software mail-order and PC game development