Building intelligence layers for the energy transitionIn this short post, I want to explain the concept of this “intelligence layer” and share a few examples that fit into this thesis.May 8, 2024May 8, 2024
Transforming field services through AI-augmentation amidst skill shortageIn this blog post, we’ll explore how AI augmentation can bolster the efficiency of field workers, and the steps necessary to achieve this.Jul 27, 20231Jul 27, 20231
Europe’s dramatic workforce crisis and four ways how to mitigate itMassive delays at the airport, restaurants that are closing down, waiting times of several months for installing a solar panel, or lack of…Sep 20, 2022Sep 20, 2022
Merging our Future of Manufacturing Community with IIoT Use CaseToday, we’re merging our Future of Manufacturing Community with the team behind IIot Use Case. In this post, I wanted to share some…Mar 22, 2022Mar 22, 2022
M&A Activity in the European Manufacturing Industry — A Review of the Last 5 YearsIn this post, Giovanni from Specter, and I take a closer look at the M&A activity in the European manufacturing industry in the past five…Dec 18, 20201Dec 18, 20201
The Rise of Communities — Building Communities in B2BIn early September this year, 500+ shipping professionals met online at the Digital Container Summit organized by our portfolio company…Nov 20, 20202Nov 20, 20202
Published inPoint Nine LandAnnouncing our first P9 Family Virtual SummitAt P9, we believe that our community plays a crucial part in our aspiration to be the partner of choice for tech startup founders in the…Oct 14, 20201Oct 14, 20201
Published inPoint Nine LandThe Current State of Industrial Startups in Europe — An Update (September 2020)Since I started looking more closely at the manufacturing industry a couple of years ago, there has been a huge increase in the number of…Sep 25, 20201Sep 25, 20201
Published inPoint Nine LandHow B2B Marketplaces are changing procurementTriggered by Covid-19, it’s a great time to be building B2B MarketplacesJun 23, 20205Jun 23, 20205
Published inPoint Nine LandAthletes and founders — same, same but different?How to succeed at very hard things and what we can learn from athletesJun 5, 20202Jun 5, 20202
Published inPoint Nine LandGermany — we have a structural problem and we need to solve it togetherWhy we need more collaboration between our fragmented tech-ecosystems.Jan 22, 20207Jan 22, 20207
Published inPoint Nine LandReady to buy — do your early customers have what it takes?A framework to communicate your early enterprise traction.Dec 3, 20192Dec 3, 20192
Published inPoint Nine LandThe case for B2B Marketplaces — all markets are equally uniqueAt Point Nine, we’ve been very enthusiastic about B2B marketplaces for quite some time now — to the point that we organized a conference…Aug 9, 20192Aug 9, 20192
Published inPoint Nine LandManufacturing the Future 2019 — Perspectives from an Early Stave VCI had the pleasure to do a presentation at the Hannover Messe — the world’s biggest industrial fair — about how I look at the industrial…Apr 5, 20191Apr 5, 20191
Published inPoint Nine LandIndustrial Startups — How To Determine Your Funding StrategyStartups in the industrial sector face a particularly hard challenge of hitting product-market-fit (PMF) fast. This is due to a variety of…Feb 1, 20192Feb 1, 20192
Published inPoint Nine LandSix take-aways on Digitally Transforming European Industry from the forefront of this rapidly…Co-authored by Ben Blume (@benblume) at Atomico.Nov 20, 2018Nov 20, 2018
Published inPoint Nine LandEmployee productivity will be at the heart of the next wave of industrial startupsMany manufacturers have focused on increasing productivity in the past decadeOct 3, 20182Oct 3, 20182
Published inPoint Nine LandReinventing the Factory Stack — Perspectives from an Early Stage VCI had the pleasure to do a presentation at the Hannover Messe — the world’s biggest industrial fair — about how I look at the industrial…May 4, 20182May 4, 20182
Published inPoint Nine LandPoint Nine Event: How to build a global SaaS Winner out of MunichIn the last couple of months I spent more and more time in Munich for Point Nine. What I find most exciting about the ecosystem there:Apr 30, 2018Apr 30, 2018
Published inPoint Nine LandBuilding a great product is hard. A glimpse into the product challenges of the P9 portfolioIn the last couple of months I spoke to many Product Managers from the P9 portfolio, as well as external ones about their challenges in…Nov 29, 2017Nov 29, 2017