CJ

Christoph Janz

Early-stage SaaS VC

Germany

Skills

SaaS
Venture Capital
Angel Investing
Start-ups
E-commerce
Lead Generation
Cloud Computing
Product Management
Web 2.0
User Experience Design
Early-stage Startups
Entrepreneurship
CEOs
User Experience
Online Marketing
Business Strategy
Mergers & Acquisitions
Strategic Partnerships
Competitive Analysis
Leadership

Work Experience

  • 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.

Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent Central, Momox, Geckoboard, Propertybase

2008

  • 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.

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.

Various Software & Internet Startups

2000 - 2005

  • Advisor

    2000 - 2005

    tangible engineering GmbH, euforo GmbH, CalendarHub Inc

Friendity.de (acquired by a Top 3 German ISP)

2003 - 2004

  • 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.

DealPilot.com AG (acquired by Shopping.com)

1997 - 2000

  • 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.

El Dorado Software

1993 - 1997

  • Co-founder & Managing Director

    1993 - 1997

    Software mail-order and PC game development