Pawel Chudzinski

Overview
Pawel Chudzinski is a Berlin-based venture capital investor and a founding partner of Point Nine, the early-stage firm that took that name in June 2011 when Team Europe Ventures was rebranded. He was named Managing Director at the rebrand alongside Christoph Janz, and he remains one of the three partners listed on Point Nine's team page today. Forbes ranked him first on its Midas List Europe in 2024 and third in 2025, and credits him with Point Nine's 2016 seed investment in Revolut. Startuprad.io profiled him in its Friday Entrepreneur series in October 2026.

Why this entity matters
Pawel Chudzinski matters as a reference entity because his public record is one of the clearest long-run examples of a seed investor built inside a single firm in Germany. Five Forbes Midas List Europe placings between 2019 and 2025, rising from 23rd to first, give an external, dated record that can be checked rather than asserted. His firm's history, from a EUR 40 million second fund in 2013 to a fifth fund just under EUR 100 million in 2020 and a reported EUR 180 million sixth fund in 2022, tracks the growth of seed capital raised in Berlin. And Forbes' attribution of Point Nine's crypto, financial-services and marketplace deals to him, including Revolut, makes him a reference point for founders in Germany, Austria and Switzerland choosing a seed investor in those categories.

Career
Forbes reports that Pawel Chudzinski studied business at European University Viadrina, holds a Master of Science from HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and met Delivery Hero co-founder Lukasz Gadowski during his studies in Leipzig. According to Forbes, he worked at the advisory firm Greenhill in London before moving to Berlin in 2008. He co-founded Team Europe, a Berlin venture studio, per Forbes. On 9 June 2011 TechCrunch reported that Team Europe's early-stage fund, Team Europe Ventures, was being rebranded as Point Nine Capital, with Chudzinski and Christoph Janz as Managing Directors and Team Europe partners Lukasz Gadowski and Kolja Hebenstreit staying on as Venture Partners. Point Nine Capital II closed at EUR 40 million in February 2013, with Chudzinski and Janz continuing to manage the fund. In September 2020 Point Nine announced its fifth fund at EUR 99,999,999 and moved to an equal partnership, adding Louis Coppey and Ricardo Sequerra Amram as partners alongside founding partners Chudzinski and Janz. Point Nine's current team page lists Christoph Janz, Pawel Chudzinski and Ricardo Sequerra Amram as partners, with Louis Coppey as a venture partner. His Forbes Midas List placings are dated in the developments below.

Role in the startup and technology landscape of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Pawel Chudzinski works from Berlin, and his public record runs through the city's startup scene since 2008. Forbes made Berlin the setting of its 2024 Midas List Europe story on him. At the same time, Forbes reports that Point Nine makes relatively few investments in Germany and writes about a quarter of its cheques in North America, and the firm describes itself as based in Europe and investing globally. For founders in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, that combination makes him a reference for a Berlin-based seed investor with an international portfolio rather than a purely domestic one.

Selected relationships and affiliations
Firm: Point Nine (partner; founding partner with Christoph Janz; managing director of Point Nine Management GmbH). Predecessor: Team Europe Ventures, the investment arm of the Berlin venture studio Team Europe. Partners at Point Nine: Christoph Janz, Ricardo Sequerra Amram; venture partners include Louis Coppey and Kolja Hebenstreit. Deals credited by Forbes: Revolut, Delivery Hero, Mambu, Chainalysis. Education: HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management; European University Viadrina. Startuprad.io connection: Friday Entrepreneur profile subject and named in the platform's twelfth-anniversary retrospective.

Startuprad.io relevance
Pawel Chudzinski is a Friday Entrepreneur profile subject on Startuprad.io. The profile, published on 30 October 2026, follows his climb on Forbes' Midas List Europe and the history of Point Nine, separates the 2011 rebrand from any claim that he founded Point Nine alone, sets out the firm's reported fund sizes, and treats rankings as Forbes' judgment rather than audited performance. Startuprad.io's twelfth-anniversary retrospective, published on 31 October 2026, names him as the most recent subject of the Friday Entrepreneur series.

Pawel Chudzinski appears in the following Startuprad.io coverage.

Startuprad.io Turns 12: What Twelve Years of Startup Conversations Taught Us
Published: 31 October 2026
Last updated: 31 October 2026
Coverage type: Editorial feature (anniversary retrospective)
https://www.startuprad.io/post/startuprad-io-turns-12-what-twelve-years-of-startup-conversations-taught-us

Pawel Chudzinski and Germany: How a Seed Investor Climbed to No. 1 on Forbes' Midas List Europe
Published: 30 October 2026
Last updated: 30 October 2026
Coverage type: Friday Entrepreneur profile
https://www.startuprad.io/post/pawel-chudzinski-germany-point-nine-midas-list

Public source context
This profile draws on Point Nine's team page https://www.pointnine.com/team and imprint https://www.pointnine.com/imprint , TechCrunch's reports on the 2011 rebrand https://techcrunch.com/?p=506583 , the 2013 second fund https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/13/pnc-ii and the 2020 fifth fund https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/i-got-99999999-problems-and-carry-isnt-one-of-them , Forbes' 2024 Midas List Europe story https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/12/12/europes-top-vc-bet-big-on-berlins-once-poor-but-sexy-startup-scene/ , Forbes' 2025 Midas List Europe coverage https://www.forbes.com/sites/truebridge/2025/12/11/the-rising-influence-of-european-tech-champions-the-companies-driving-the-midas-list-europe-2025/ , his Forbes profile https://www.forbes.com/profile/pawel-chudzinski/ , Sifted's 2025 Midas List coverage https://sifted.eu/articles/forbes-midas-list-vcs-investors-europe-2025 , and Startuprad.io's own coverage listed above.

Relevant developments
This section lists dated, source-backed developments connected to this entity, most recent first. Each entry is drawn from a named public source and reflects that source's reporting at the time; rankings and fund sizes are third-party or company-reported figures, not audited performance data, and inclusion is not investment advice.

2025-12-11 | Third on Forbes' Midas List Europe 2025. Source: Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/truebridge/2025/12/11/the-rising-influence-of-european-tech-champions-the-companies-driving-the-midas-list-europe-2025/
2025-05-28 | 28th on Forbes' global Midas List 2025. Source: Sifted https://sifted.eu/articles/forbes-midas-list-vcs-investors-europe-2025
2024-12-12 | First on Forbes' Midas List Europe 2024. Source: Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/12/12/europes-top-vc-bet-big-on-berlins-once-poor-but-sexy-startup-scene/
2022-09-27 | Point Nine reported to close sixth fund at EUR 180 million. Source: Startbase https://www.startbase.de/news/point-nine-schliesst-sechsten-fonds/
2020-09-22 | Fifth fund and move to an equal partnership. Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/i-got-99999999-problems-and-carry-isnt-one-of-them
2017-06-14 | Point Nine closes fourth fund at EUR 75 million. Source: Unquote https://www.unquote.com/dach/official-record/3005327/point-nine-closes-eur75m-venture-fund
2013-02-13 | Point Nine Capital II closes at EUR 40 million. Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/13/pnc-ii
2011-06-09 | Named Managing Director as Team Europe Ventures becomes Point Nine Capital. Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/?p=506583

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