Christoph Janz

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.

Angel Investor

2008 - 2011

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, an early leader in online comparison shopping, funded by Bertelsmann Ventures.

Co-founder & Managing Director

1993 - 1997

Software mail-order and PC game development