🥁🥁 The rumours are true,
@ric0seq
has joined
@pointninecap
! He started today and is in serious work mode already (and eating bananas)...more info soon
Welcome!
🥁 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of P9 V, our €99,999,999
#SeedFund
& welcome
@louicop
&
@ric0seq
as equal partners! Together we’ll continue to support great
#B2BSaaS
&
#B2BMarketplace
early-stage startups from around the world.
Find out more👉
3y at
@PointNineCap
🙏🏼 for the amazing collaboration w/ my partners (
@pawell
@louicop
@chrija
), feels like we’ve been working together for a decade 😅
🙌🏼 to all founders Im lucky to work w/ everyday, your trust is gold to me
👊🏼 to the P9 fam, i learn a ton from y’all everyday
- was just finishing my masters degree
- had a consulting gig (ugh) lined up for me in Lisbon
- applied late, and had to hustle a bit to get
@pmoe
on the phone (screenshot attached)
- got the job & it ended up being one of the most impactful ones in my career
- I learned so much
🚀Seedcamp is looking for an intern!🚀
And it's the last day to apply for this great opportunity!
Don't miss on the chance to gain exposure to the world of VC and to be on first name terms with our phenomenal network of founders, operators & investors.
term sheet signed on xmas eve 🥰❤️
so so exciting LFG 🚀
lots to build next year but now time for a good break with family and books 💆♂️
see you next year 👋🏻
A bit more than 5 years ago, an outbound that will stay in my books as my first seed investment 😀
Incredibly proud of what
@INFARM_Global
has become 🦄
Onwards 🌱🍄
I’m OOO for a couple of days and the seed-to-unicorn club at P9 keeps growing 🤗
A month ago we announced 9 🦄s and now we welcome
@algolia
and
@contentful
to the group
Big congrats to all the founders and teams + special kuddos to my partner
@chrija
👏🏼
#p9family
is 🔥
another Passover where we weren't able to congregate and break bread around one table!
at least we had
@whereby
to bring the family together (across 3 different continents) for all the singing :)
(disclaimer that grandmas didn't require AV assistance to dial in 🥰🥳)
the price of increased complexity in startups is very high.
hence the importance of sequencing. understanding when you can move to the next project/milestone is really key.
Yesterday we signed the last new investment of our current fund, P9 V.
Say hello to P9 VI, a €180M seed fund to continue our journey.
Same strategy and goal as before – be the partner of choice for B2B SaaS and marketplace founders.
More info:
Im not gonna have 7 scooter apps on my phone... In cities like Paris, Madrid or Lisbon where the market is split across so many players, the real looser is the consumer who now suffers from a horrible UX... I’m better off walking 🚶 🚶♀️
📝Here's an investment thesis we've been thinking about and investing under for some time.
How Vertical APIs like
@nexhealthHQ
@tryVital
and
@procuros
are aggregating industries and abstracting legacy software and protocols
Feedback welcome 🙃
Sad day for 🇵🇹 yesterday
4 more Y of socialism
Incredible how despite corruption scandals, the nation’s stagnation and the people’s impoverishment they still win w/ parliamentary majority
W/ 50% of voters work for the state/live of pensions & subsidies there are no surprises
1- founders devem fechar as suas empresas com dignidade, faz parte das responsabilidades de empreender.
2- quando se chega ao fim de ciclo, os investidores devem ajudar os empreendedores com o processo. devem estar presentes nos bons e maus momentos da empresa.
This is next-gen CRM automation 🔥
@alexbard
keeps saying at the board that "there's no CRM without reminders/workflows" - well the wait is over 🥰
@nicolasosharp
@byteofbits
and the whole
@attio
have gone back to first principles to build a completely new experience in CRM
Automations is live on
@ProductHunt
! 🚀
🛠️ Build powerful workflows for your GTM team
🤖 Use AI blocks for intelligent automation
🔗 Integrate & orchestrate with tools in your stack
We’ll be answering comments & questions all day. Check us out!
Link in thread👇
London bound with the
@PointNineCap
team for the week 🇬🇧🙌
- Quality time with the whole investment team 🥳🤓
- Meeting bold founders building great companies🚀
- Bringing together the SaaS community 🤗
Excited for what the week will bring!
Join us:
Can Stripe go public and take my money?
Increasing the GDP of the internet is a hell of a mission.
Keeping the upside for just a few isn’t that great though ;)
"We look for founders that have significant domain expertise, that have spent years in the industry before deciding to jump ship and fix the problems they were exposed to through technology" 🙌
Check out
@ric0seq
joining
@cee
on This Much I Know 💫
Communities are the future of B2B
Many industries will replace zero-sum efforts for cooperation.
The tragedy of the commons is over-exploited in many industries > cooperation will bring increased value to all parties involved.
Almost 2 years since our investment in
@attio
The product is now available to anyone and it’s sooo damn good! It comines the potent power of a data structure built from the ground up with CRM in mind with the beautiful and flexible UI of a next gen saas product
Very sad day today. We lost our Mr. Startup Portugal today. He leaves us too early but also leaves a legacy behind we should hone up to him for the years to come! RIP grande João 🇵🇹 Obrigado
The future of AI is bright and so is Lisbon on a sunny day ☀️
Especially with 100+ AI-first founders and operators joining us at the
@ChampalimaudF
for a day of exchange on the pressing topics re building AI-first companies
Last seats available so be sure to apply here to join
A warm official welcome to team
@vevcompany
to the
#p9family
as they launch Vev publicly after spending time building the product close to their initial customers.
Once or twice a year we add to our team
@seedcamp
via our 6 month internship.
It’s the best insight into European VC that you could possibly get.
Apply here:
Some more thoughts in the {THREAD} below:
This from the FT is a peak example of the European war on dynamism. There’s no social or economic problem that isn’t solved by more tax and more regulation. 🧵
Here is distribution of wages for the youth (16-34y)… scary
Another stat is tax:
- >€35k = 45% income tax
The country is sending the youth abroad and annihilating the middle class
Whenever i meet with founders raising pre-MVP i send them this podcast from
@m2jr
about the Insight Development Framework -
So important to go through this before raising money and start customer validation
Off to Copenhagen for
@techbikers
🚴♂️ Really happy to be cycling alongside 60 other riders to support
@RoomtoRead
in their quest to bring literacy to children in developing countries 🙏🏻
Prep 🅾️
Shape 📉
Motivation 🏋️♂️
Excitement level🕺
5- os media que cobrem a indústria têm a responsabilidade de informar, as boas e más notícias, mas não devem condenar assim algo que é parte integra do ciclo de um eco-sistema.
6 - no que pensará hoje quem ambiciona empreender amanhã? haverá pior forma de incentivar os próximos?
Best way to finish our series of "Series A announcements"
💥
@cargo_one_
just raised $18M from
@IndexVentures
,
👊 a huge shout out to the team that has done a tremendous job
🛫 Something very exceptional is cooking up there, join them!
More:
there are millions of merchants and makers out there managing orders through whatsapp and insta DM. if only there was something that helped them sell more efficiently 🧐
Michael Jordan's doc on netflix is prob the best sports doc ever.
MJ is a star and one of the first athletes ever to reach GOAT status. Some thoughts on the making of a 🐐
Once again, I'm cycling from Copenhagen to Berlin (450km) with
@techbikers
to raise funds for
@RoomtoRead
🚀
Support my fundraising efforts! I know it's summer but let's be contrarian 😎
enormous congrats to everyone at
@SqreenIO
for joining
@datadoghq
immensely proud of everyone in the team, you're all such incredible contributors to the
#p9family
, constantly paying it forward to support the most recent additions to the family
A big merci... et chapeau!
Super excited to announce
@eisokant
and the
@athenian
team are joining the P9 Family! 😍
'The
@athenian
platform helps engineering leaders build a continuous improvement culture by leveraging insights and aligning teams with company goals.'
More details:
Gate A12
6am flight to LCY
Used to wake up at 5am, arrive at the aiport at 5:45am and slide into the my seat to get to London for breakkie ;)
So long TXL 👋🏻
Cc:
@pmoe
🧐 request for... TALENT!
two companies I work with (still stealth) are looking for their first growth hire (B2B SaaS lead gen)
both startups are lead by incredible leaders, growing fast and tapping into massive markets 🚀
if you feel like you're the one, hit me up via DM ✌️📫
Proud of everyone at
@GravitySketch
for this incredible milestone 🚀
A community-led business gathering hundreds of thousands of 3D designers around the world to create and collaborate on the (physical and digital) products of tomorrow.
#p9family
A founding team with a deep sense of urgency and the ability to get stuff done make or break a startup at the early stages.
Speed of iterations and hustle go a long way when the clock is ticking...
seeing more and more people deleting apps like FB, IG, messenger, etc.. from their phones... or at least putting them in the back of their phones... properly fighting against "notification paranoia"
new mobile era? feels like there's available real estate again in our phones