Trying (hard) to eat (some of) Adobe’s lunch (or getting acquired tryin’) — From Canva, which we saw pre-launch in July 2012 (!), to our investments in companies like PlayPlay, Gravity Sketch, and Shapr3D, we at Point Nine have looked at and partnered with many companies building creative tools over the years. Looking at Figma’s acquisition price ($20bn) or Canva’s latest valuation ($40bn…

Our investment in Cryptio — This week, we announced that we led a $10M Series A in Cryptio (Coindesk article here). After Bitbond 8 years ago, Chainalysis 7 years ago, Kaiko in 2019, and Tenderly in 2021, this is the 5th crypto infrastructure company we are proud to partner with at Point Nine. …

Our work with Rooser, the first European seafood trading platform — A bit more than three years ago, we announced our investment in cargo.one by publishing a blog on P9 Land called “On digitizing B2B markets and building trust relationships with founders”. It was a good occasion for us to write about the digitalization of the air cargo market and share…

Our investment in Amenitiz — Yesterday, we announced that we, at Point Nine, led Amenitiz’ 6.5M€ (!!) Seed round alongside Backed. TechCrunch wrote about it here. A few great angels from the Spanish SaaS ecosystem also joined the round like Avi Meir, CEO at TravelPerk and Albert Alabau, CPeO at Typeform. …

Our investment in June, pioneering a new design-centric approach to the product analytics market — Since day one at Point Nine, we have been trying to help founders understand their key metrics. We’ve built dashboards to help founders monitor their SaaS metrics (since April 2013). We’ve built a bunch of pivot tables to help founders run some cohort analysis (since October 2013). We’ve also published…

A quick conversation with Vahan, CTO at SuperAnnotate — For quite some time now, we’ve been tracking applied AI companies (I wrote this post about our investment thesis some time ago) especially in the Computer Vision space. …

Our investment in Soda — Today, our portfolio company Soda announced an 11.5M€ Series A led by our friends at Singular. We’re also disclosing that we led Soda’s seed round 9 months ago alongside Hummingbird and the Data Community Fund (see PR here). …

A case study from PlayPlay, Bearer, Sqreen, cargo.one and other Point Nine portfolio companies — Our mission at Point Nine is to help B2B SaaS and B2B marketplace businesses get from a stage where they have some early signals of Product Market Fit (i.e.“the P9 stage”) to what we call “Go To Market Fit”. …

Our investment in SuperAnnotate — As a SaaS focused investor, we at P9 have been spending quite some time looking at companies in the DataOps space. As companies start using more and more data to make and automate decisions, there’s a whole new generation of infrastructure companies that are currently emerging such as data pipeline…