Point Nine Marketplace Meetup 2016
Spoiler Alert: Read to the very end for an opportunity to attend this year! ;-)
Lots of people see Point Nine as an early stage investor strongly focused on SaaS. Not quite as many actually know that another main pillar of our investment thesis are marketplace businesses.
Taking a closer look at, thus far, the most successful investments associated with Point Nine, Zendesk and Delivery Hero, you will notice that each category, SaaS and marketplaces, is equally represented.
And, over the last couple of months, we made a significant amount of new investments in marketplace companies such as e.g. Bitbond, Savedo, StarOfService, Eversports, Deskbookers or StuDocu.
To help our marketplace founders learn from each other, last year we organized our inaugural Point Nine Marketplace Meetup in Berlin. It is the “marketplace counterpart” to our famous Point Nine SaaS Meetup. Pawel published an excellent write-up on his blog if you want to learn more.
This year, we will host another Marketplace Meetup on May 12th in Berlin with the support of some great sponsors and partners. Once again, it will be a highly curated and targeted event that will allow for knowhow exchange, sharing best practices and lessons learned about all things marketplaces. There will be only approx. 100 selected participants to enable a confidential and easy atmosphere of open exchange.
Here is a sneak preview of this year’s confirmed speakers and panelists (in no particular order):
- Mariusz Gralewski, Founder/CEO Docplanner
- Fred Destin, Partner Accel Partners
- Huw Lloyd, Director Torch Partners
- Klaus Nyengaard, former CEO JustEat & Angel Investor (Wahanda,…)
- Dr. Christian Saller, Partner Holtzbrinck Ventures
- Jose Marin, Angel Investor (OLX, Delivery Hero, Beepi…)
- Florian Heinemann, Founder/MD Project A
- Fabian Siegel, former CEO Delivery Hero, Founder/CEO Marley Spoon
- Michal Skrzynski, Partner Protos.VC & former co-founder pomocni.pl
- Raffael Johnen, Founder/CEO Auxmoney
- Jan Thiel, Founder/CEO Auctionata
- Oussama Ammar, Founder/Partner TheFamily
- Jochen Engert, Founder/CEO Flixbus
- Celine Lazorthes, Founder/CEO Leetchi & Mangopay
- Simon Levene, Partner Mosaic Ventures
- Alexander Kudlich, Managing Director Rocket Internet
Here is the twist: As a special easter egg, we decided to open up this year’s event by giving an opportunity to 10 early stage marketplace founders to attend! If you feel this could be you, please shoot us a short email letting us know why exactly YOU have to attend this year. Applications are open until end of this week (Friday, April 1st 2016; no April fool’s joke).
We are very much looking forward to the second edition of the Point Nine Marketplace Meetup. Many thanks to all contributors and partners; without you this would not be possible!
