ninepointfive

Venture capital dedicated to corporate venturing

A venture capital fund with 35 mio Euro under management. A focused portfolio of corporate ventures built and accelerated with leading corporations.

Governed at arms-length, but coached close to the heart: we share all the risks, upsides, and challenges of our ventures. They are independent, based on an equity partnership between the management, our corporate partner, and ourselves

A model, assiduous as a metronome

Our entrepreneurial lens molds corporate spin-outs or accelerates existing ventures into rapid corporate-backed scale-ups. On account of our business builder’s mindset.

A quite unconventional model, but all the more interesting when done right: the scale and expertise of a corporate, managed and governed like a start-up, with the entrepreneurship and independence of venture capital.

Wise investments, done differently

Our corporate partners capitalize on the aspiration of a VC firm and the experience of a team of proven business leaders that are active investors.

No consulting, but coaching with a fair amount of pragmatism – it’s our skin in the game too.

Bringing to the surface an exceptional breed of leaders

Our ventures offer opportunities to tenacious, independent, and caring entrepreneurs, who have the heart and soul of founders.

Great minds don’t think alike. They think together.

9.5 is made up of concentric circles, a team-of-teams: the fund leadership, our engaged group of active investors, and the community of exceptional leaders of our ventures.

The fund leadership is bound by a pioneering mindset, integrity and hard work. We thrive on our complementarity; our high spirits are contagious.

Our active investors support the ventures where and when needed. Collectively, they bring to the table an exceptional breadth of entrepreneurial expertise gained in large and midsize companies as well as startups – across the globe.

The management of our portfolio companies – as varied as they are talented – are committed to sharing experiences, practices, and ideas in the broader ninepointfive community.

Our corporate partners tell us that meeting with people from the ninepointfive ecosystem is as refreshing as it is confronting: we don’t beat about the bush. That said, our no-nonsense approach always comes with a smile, the best of intentions, and an intrinsic drive to outperform.