While Coinbase is a company that we were (unfortunately) cheering for from the sidelines, fortunately there are lots of amazing startups where we jumped onto the playing field (or whatever the appropriate sports metaphor is for that), and we’re thrilled to announce four additional ones in today’s issue of your favorite VC newsletter. Or √9+9⁰ to make it more on-brand.
 

NEW INVESTMENTS 🎉
 

We couldn't be more excited to welcome our latest P9 Family member, CloudTalk, which is building the world’s sexiest best Cloud-based call center software for sales and support teams. If that doesn’t sound very sexy, keep in mind that this is exactly what people said about Zendesk in 2008. We’ll spare you the “how it started / how it’s going” meme pic, but do check out CloudTalk’s announcement and Julia’s post on why we invested.

 

CloudTalk isn’t the only P9 Family company that makes communication in the age of remote work a bit easier. With an easy-to-use product that doesn’t require any downloads or app installs, Whereby is taking on the Zooms and Google Meets of this world. If you tend to agree that most humans aren’t made for spending 10 hours a day in front of Zoom, take a look at Whereby!

 

Intenseye is making workers' lives in the industrial work environment better by keeping an (intensively ML trained) eye on their safety. We invested over a year ago and are thrilled to finally publicly welcome them to the P9 Family! For our overview on why we invested, check out Ricardo’s latest post and Techcrunch’s summary here!

 

Soda is up next! If you’re wondering why the heck we’ve invested in a sparkling mineral water company, hear us out. Soda is building an enterprise-grade monitoring platform for data products. We led the seed almost a year ago, but before we even announced it to the world, Soda already did a Series A with Singular. Check out Louis’ write up on why we’re so excited about it here.

 

P9 FAMILY NEWS 🗞
 

Huge congrats to the team at Sqreen on their acquisition by Datadog! (paid in cash, not Dogecoins) We'll miss you, guys, but you know that you'll always stay a part of the P9 Family.

 

Lightspeed has acquired our portfolio company Vend to power their global retail expansion. Huge congrats to all current and former Venders who've made this excellent outcome possible. Fun fact – New Zealand-based Vend was one of P9's first SaaS investments.

 

UserZoom acquired EnjoyHQ (formerly known as NomNom) to help businesses better manage and understand their customer insights! Fun fact: Christoph and Ricardo first met whilst working with NomNom.

 

Congrats 15Five on their acquisition of Emplify, an employee engagement management tool. With Emplify’s support, 15Five is continuing its mission to simplify the challenges of HR professionals and managers around the world.

 

Mission Barns raised an additional $24m to fuel its vision to become the leading provider of lab grown pork and, hopefully, put an end to factory farming.

 

Mambu goes from strength to strength! Here’s a little overview of their journey from Day 1 to fintech unicorn!

 

cargo.one continues to expand its footprint globally, they’ve just signed a partnership with Saudia Cargo strengthening its position as a leading distribution channel for airlines!