Builder’s Café is coming to London for the first time 🇬🇧☕️ Together with @attio, we’re hosting a relaxed Sunday session on November 8 for technical founders, engineers and early-stage operators. No pitches and no panels. Just a few hours to build, swap ideas and geek out about AI with people working on the same problems. Spots are limited. Link to sign up in the comments.

How do you go from academic research to building a company? We’re coming to Cambridge on 5 November and teaming up with Founders at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures for a special Founder Braintrust. 👋🧠 We’ll kick off with a fireside chat between @louicop and @fhuszar, co-founder of Reasonable AI, about Ferenc’s journey from Cambridge Professor of Machine Learning to founder and what he wishes he’d known at the start. The fireside chat will be followed by Braintrust discussions, bringing together up to 50 early-stage and aspiring founders to share work in progress, work through blockers and exchange candid feedback. If you’re building an early-stage startup or testing a startup idea, particularly as a researcher, scientist or engineer considering the move from academia to founding, we’d love to see you there. P.S. Louis will also host a small number of 1:1 office hours earlier in the day. The evening will include fireworks, food and more conversation.

@F13hq is out of stealth. Welcome to the #P9family, @gpjanik & Ingimar! 👋 They’re building models that natively generate vector graphics, with precision, factuality, and utility built in from the start. AI graphics have earned a reputation for filling space rather than adding value. Gregory and Ingimar see a much bigger opportunity: graphics that people can edit, trust, and actually use in their work. They have a clear view of where today’s models fall short and real ambition to build something fundamentally better. Looking forward to being part of your journey, Team F13!

Huge congrats to the @KaikoData team on extending their Series B to $110M, led by S&P Global! Digital asset markets run 24/7 and need data infrastructure that does the same. With market data covering over 150 exchanges and protocols, Kaiko is building towards its vision of providing the data infrastructure for onchain capital markets. Congrats to @ambresoub and the entire Kaiko team. We’re super excited to continue following your journey. Onwards! 🚀

Welcome to the P9 family, grubel.ai! Officially out of stealth now. ⚖️ Every legal matter has its own facts, documents, and requirements. grubel is building AI that adapts to each one, automating how models learn from a matter and improve their work. We feel lucky to be along for the journey as Moritz Hardt, Reinhard Heckel & team push the boundaries of AI in legal and beyond. Welcome, grubel! 👋

European Founders Night at #SFTechWeek 👀 Together with e2vc, we’re bringing European founders, investors, and friends together in San Francisco. Join us for good food, drinks, and conversations with people building and investing across Europe and beyond. 📅 October 8 | 7:00–11:00 pm | San Francisco 🔗 Link in the comments Come by for a drink, catch up with familiar faces, and meet a few new ones 🥂 cc: @chrija

Full house at yesterday’s #PointNine x #Zauber #BuildersCafé in Berlin ☕️🍕 A Sunday afternoon spent building, exchanging ideas and sharing feedback, fueled by pizza and coffee. Thank you to everyone who joined us! Keep an eye out for the next editions - we’ll soon bring the Builders Café to more cities across Europe. 👀

Sunday plans? Come build with us at the Point Nine x Zauber #BuildersCafé in Berlin☕️🍕 We still have a few spots left for technical founders, builders, and operators who want to spend a focused afternoon building and exchanging ideas around AI. No agenda, no talks. Just time to work on your own projects, meet others tackling similar problems, and get feedback from experienced builders. Applications are still open — sign up via the link in the comments. 👇

Welcome to the P9 family, @recast — officially out of stealth now. The team is rebuilding cloud seeding across biology, software and hardware. In just six months, they’ve operated 100+ flights, developed a more affordable biodegradable seeding material and trained a hyper-resolution AI weather model. We feel lucky to be along for the journey with @oliviali_ and team. Welcome, Recast! ☁️

The next edition of the Point Nine x Zauber.ai Builders Café is coming to Berlin on Sunday, September 6. ☕️ Again, we’re bringing together a small group of technical founders, builders, and operators for a few focused hours of building, exchanging ideas, and going deep on AI. No agenda, no talks — just space to work on your own projects and connect with others tackling similar problems. Whether you’re building agents, internal tools, workflows, or exploring something entirely new, this is a low-key environment to make meaningful progress. A few experienced builders will be around to bounce ideas and share feedback — and we’ll provide the coffee ☕️ and pizza 🍕 Join Laura, Flo and the Zauber team for a productive Sunday in Berlin. Sign up link in the comments.

A few weeks ago, we shared some of our favourite photos from Founder Summit 2026. Today, we’re sharing a short film that captures a bit more of what those few days felt like. 🎥⛰️ Over three days in the Bavarian Alps, 130 founders came together to step away from the day-to-day, exchange ideas, and reflect on what it means to build and lead in an AI world. Thanks again to everyone who joined us and made it such a special few days. We’re already looking forward to the next one.

We're planting our latest seed and are excited to welcome Aardaia to the P9 family! 🌱 We led their €5M seed round to back @PdraicFlood and Mike and the team as they domesticate wild plants into modern crops using genomic and computational breeding without genetic modification. Their first crop, the aardaker, is a native European legume that fixes its own nitrogen and grows a protein-rich tuber. The goal: reduce Europe's dependence on imported protein crops, starting with nearly a million plants already in the ground. The aardaker is just the beginning. The bigger mission is a whole pipeline of new crops for the agriculture we'll need. Excited to grow this one together! 🌿

Above the Tree Line 🏔️ That was the theme of our P9 Founder Summit this year. Over three days in the Bavarian Alps, we brought together 130 founders to step away from the day-to-day and spend time reflecting on what it means to build and lead companies as AI continues to reshape the way companies are built. We followed the journey from base camp to tree line to summit, but the most valuable moments weren’t on the agenda. They happened in conversations over coffee, on hikes, between sessions, and late into the evening. More than anything, we’re proud of the community we’ve built. Seeing founders—whether they’ve been part of P9 for years or are joining for the first time—share their knowledge so openly and talk candidly about the challenges they’re facing is what makes these gatherings worthwhile. A huge thank you to all the founders, speakers, partners, and the team behind the scenes who made it possible! See you above the tree line 🌲

Huge congrats to the @factorialapp team on announcing their $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation! Ten years after being founded in Barcelona, Factorial has reset from a SaaS company into an AI Workforce Operations Platform, serving 16,000+ businesses across 90+ countries and becoming one of the most valuable scale-ups in Europe. Having supported the company since the Seed round, it’s been incredible to watch this journey unfold. Congrats to @jordiromero ,@bernatfarrero and the entire Factorial team. Onwards! 🚀

Huge congrats to @s2o , Paolo Negri, Karthik Rau and the entire @Contentful team on today’s acquisition announcement by @salesforce. 🎉 What an incredible journey and achievement. Congrats to everyone who helped build one of Europe’s standout software companies. 🚀

This week, we hosted the Energy Night together with @TransitionVC: an evening for the founders, operators, and researchers rebuilding Europe's energy system. The room reflected where the sector is heading: software-defined energy supply, AI for grid and asset operations, electrification of heat and mobility, and the next generation of European deeptech. The conversations were sharpened by a fireside between @davidhelgason from @TransitionVC and @pawell from @PointNineCap on what the Iran conflict exposed about Europe's energy security, where we lead and lag the US, lessons from scaling a complex multi-stakeholder ecosystem like Unity, and how AI is reshaping the system on both sides. We were also joined on stage by @JonSigvert from @ReelEnergy and @JoshuaKuepper from RIZM, two founders building at the frontier of the energy transition who shared candid perspectives from the ground. Excited for what's to come ⚡️

Last night in Munich, we hosted our first Physical AI Meet-Up, bringing founders, operators, and researchers into one room. Four talks and a lot of awesome real work to show. 🤖 Huge thanks to @SereactAI , @rerundotio , SE3 Labs and @SensmoreAI , for sharing work that's usually behind closed doors, and to everyone who came, stayed past the scheduled end, and made the room what it was. Find a few themes from the evening in the thread. This is the first of what we hope becomes a series. If you're building in Physical AI in Europe, we'd love to hear from you.

📢 Future founders! Every year, we host the Point Nine Founder Summit — this year in the Bavarian Alps. For a few days, we bring together ~150 founders from our portfolio, plus a small group of operators and friends, to talk about all things company building. This year, we’re opening up 5 spots to future founders outside the portfolio. Whether you’re already building or still exploring ideas, it’s a chance to spend a few days learning, sharing, and getting to know people who are a bit further along the journey. ⛰️ June 4–7 | Bavaria 👉🏻 Apply here: lnkd.in/dd5Qx7tt P.S. We’d especially love to see more women paving their way into tech.

Energy is Europe's defining infrastructure challenge right now. We're bringing together the founders, operators & researchers building the answer. ⚡️ Energy Night — powered by @PointNine × @TransitionVC 📅 11 May · 17:00 · Berlin Talks, open discussion, food & drinks. Curated room, limited spots. 👉🏻 luma.com/aa92majp

Welcome to the #P9Family, @forithmus ! Access to medical imaging expertise is one of the most pressing gaps in global healthcare. The @forithmus team is building generalist medical AI that helps doctors interpret images faster, more consistently, and at scale — extending expert-level care to places where it's scarce. We’re excited to co-lead their $4M pre-seed alongside @e2mindset to help make that vision a reality and to build the future of medical intelligence together. 🚀

Last Friday we hosted our first @openclaw Meet & Build in Berlin together with @posthog and @OpenAI . 🦞 An afternoon of builders working on real projects, from dev agents and coding workflows to GTM automation and internal copilots, with amazing mentors such as Ying (OpenAI), Manoel (PostHog), Reetu (Zendesk), Fredrik & Johannes (Findable), Dominik & Ceyhun (Jay) (TextCortex), and Daniel (Civic) jumping in to help. We wrapped the day with a fireside chat with @andreasklinger and @LauraModiano lead by @chrija, plus some awesome demos and lightning talks by Onur (OpenClaw Contributor), Johannes (Findable), Marko (CompoundLaw), Andrey (OpenClaw Contributor), and Maciek (Graphone). Huge thanks to everyone who joined - the energy in the room was amazing! 🚀

That’s a wrap on the P9 CTO Meetup 2024! From leadership strategies and aligning engineering teams with business goals, to scaling technical teams and managing growth in dynamic environments, we send a huge thank you to our speakers for sharing their expertise and making this event a success. @michaelrwolfe, Ilya Zayats (@factorialusa), Benoit Perrot (@algolia), @dmytro_voloshyn, Cécile Ritte (@gopigment), Paolo Negri (@contentful), @VC_Talent_Guy Another big thanks to everyone who joined, shared, and connected.... we’re already looking forward to next year’s event 🚀

The P9 CTO Meetup 2024 has kicked off in Paris 🇫🇷 CTOs & VPs of Engineering from top startups & The P9 Family are gearing up for a day packed with keynotes, round tables & workshops. Looking forward to the day ahead!

We're thrilled to share @goclio's amazing journey from our 2009 seed round to a record $900M Series F! 🎉 As one of the largest vertical SaaS capital raises ever, Clio now serves 150k+ legal professionals with $200M ARR. bit.ly/4d00fVf check out @chrija's latest blog post to uncover key insights and lessons from Clio's journey.

Why shouldn't startup founders seek simple explanations and easy answers? Check out @michaelrwolfe latest blogpost and gain valuable tips on navigating conflicting advice and building successful companies. medium.com/@michaelrwolfe/em…

It’s been just over a week since we wrapped up yet another P9 Founder Summit ⭐️ A huge thank you to all the fantastic speakers, founders, operators and advisors who made this weekend of learning and sharing a success. Here are some photos to help fend off the post-summit blues!

Excited to welcome Cardino to the P9 Family! 🚗 eu-startups.com/2024/06/berl… Known for revolutionising the car selling experience, Cardino offers a fast, seamless way to sell your EVs online, ensuring the best prices through their EU-wide dealer network. We're eager to support your journey and see the innovative impact you'll make in the automotive industry. Welcome aboard!

What a day! Started with @gerodecker sharing Signavio’s journey and followed with knowledge sharing workshops. We capped it off by building rafts and floated on the lake together… we really paddled our way to success 🌊 Now we’re ready to kick off the 3rd edition of our Founder Fiesta 🎊 Shout out to all our speakers Michal Borowski, @bendzi, @VC_Talent_Guy, @ArtoYeritsyan, @davdks, Martin Malych, @dmytro_voloshyn, @peterejhamilton, @gerymeleg, @jordiromero, Sam Pillar, Philip Huffman, Xavier Castellana, Philip Braunsberger, @stefansmalla, Adam Maschek, @larsboehnke, @Nick_Franklin, Antoine Scalia, JC Bourgade

Für heute sind wir fertig - hoffentlich nicht fix & fertig! (Done for today - hopefully not finished!) Another huge thank you to all our speakers 😎 @davdks, Patrick Thelen, Laura Weritz, @SethDeHart, @matthlerner, @Kreftonaldo, @jana_iris, @byteofbits

The first morning at our P9 Founder Summit 204 flew by! From @bernatfarrero's talk on scaling @factorialusa to insightful seminars and roundtables on product organisation & enterprise sales... Big thanks to all our speakers 🙏 Ilya Zayats, Maya Weinstock, Veit Dinges, @ralfgulde, Florian Doumenc, Zeno Cappucci, @JohnMarkell, @Iliassousis, @louicop, Damian Sacco, @nicolasosharp, Seyi Sosanya, Alexandre Guinefolleau, @SamPillar, Oliver Neumann, @oyvindreed, @MarkusHarder, @stefansmalla How hard was it to gather a group of founders for a photo?...😎

Chill before the thrill 😎.. tonight we kick off the P9 Founder Summit 2024, super excited to reconnect with familiar faces & welcome all our new founders to the P9 Family!

🚀 New blog post by @michaelrwolfe on P9 Land medium.com/point-nine-news/i… Dive into the cycles that impact startups and learn how to stay focused and thrive despite the noise. Perfect for founders looking to navigate today's challenges.

Welcome to the P9 Family Team Float! 🎉 It's exciting to see such a talented group come together to bring ツSupercut to life. Looking forward to the beta release and all the innovative strides you're poised to make!

🎙️ Tune into the latest episode of “The Seed Stage” podcast featuring @ShyveeS, a prominent product lead at @LinkedIn and content creator extraordinaire! Youtube: bit.ly/3Jcydsf Spotify: spoti.fi/3J7C2yZ Join as Shyvee shares her experiences and tips on navigating the dynamic world of tech, AI, and personal development, offering listeners actionable insights to apply in their own careers and personal growth trajectories. Shout out to our lovely host @0zne!

🎙️Check out the latest episode of "The Seed Stage" podcast featuring @vhmth CTO & co-founder of @Loom! Spotify: bit.ly/3TBVrOC Youtube: bit.ly/3Th4TFx Vinay shares his insights on scaling Loom, the power of user-generated content in driving product adoption and innovation & how AI and tech are revolutionising video communication. Plus, he’s dishing out some no-nonsense advice for founders on navigating growth and challenges. A big shout out to our lovely hosts @0zne & @chrija!

Wrapping up the afternoon at the Building AI-first Meetup with some awesome talks! 🚀 Sercan @intenseye & @ric0seq walked us through building Applied AI software companies, @louicop & @eisokant shown a light on the state of LLMs, @royr discussed Chorus.AI’s journey from inception to exit and Joe Paton @Neuro_CF grave us a sneak peak into the vicious circle between research and innovation. Big thanks to all to speakers!

Morning highlights from the Building AI-first event: 🌟 @nathanbenaich @airstreet shared insights into the state of AI, @nikola_mrksic, Co-founder & CEO at PolyAI, equipped us with a Strategic AI Toolkit while @chrija, @okuiux, Co-founder @typeform & @cnfonseca, VP Product @Zendesk deep dived into the best ways of becoming AI-enabled. More to come this afternoon!

Our first AI Meetup co-hosted with @airstreet & the Champalaud Foundation has officially kicked off here in Lisbon! Looking forward to a day dedicated to all things AI, from exploring cutting-edge tools and technology to discussing its impact on industries and society.

Back with another speaker announcement 📣 Join us in Lisbon for our first AI Meetup on Dec 5th, 2023 and become AI-Enabled with @cnfonseca from @Zendesk & Humberto Ayres Pereira from @RowsHQ & @chrija from P9. We're excited to host this event alongside @airstreet & the Champalimaud Foundation... Don't miss out and apply for a ticket here: shorturl.at/etKMQ

✍️ Mark Dec 5th, 2023 in your calendars! We're excited to bring our first AI Meetup to Lisbon, a great opportunity to dive into the latest AI strategies and trends plus network with industry leaders. 📣 We're thrilled to host this event alongside @airstreet & the Champalimaud Foundation. 🌟Speaker sneak peek: @sercanesn from @intenseye @nikola_mrksic from @polyaivoice @eisokant from @poolsideai More tba soon... Apply for a ticket here: shorturl.at/etKMQ

🌟 A stellar close to the afternoon sessions.. JooBee Yeow, Thomas Forstner & @Brdbrnm gave lots of practical advice on how to navigate the challenging times ahead.