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You can read more about the announcement on TechCrunch<\/a> and Christoph Janz’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The investment amount is $600,000 which will help us double down on our mission of building the best analytics platform on earth for subscription companies.<\/p>\n

It also brings on board some really awesome people as investors. Point Nine Capital (led by Christoph Janz<\/a> and Pawel Chudzinski<\/a>) are one of the leading SaaS investors out there and we’re very honoured to be joining their family of companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christoph, who was an angel investor in Zendesk is insanely knowledgable about SaaS metrics and the author of the highly popular KPI dashboard for early stage SaaS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You could describe part of what we’re doing at ChartMogul as ‘productising’ Christoph’s spreadsheet so it’s fantastic to have him and the whole Point Nine team on board.<\/p>\n

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“Having invested in more than 20 SaaS companies and seen many, many more, I know that ChartMogul is solving a big problem which almost all SaaS companies suffer from \u2013 getting accurate SaaS metrics.” \u00a0 –\u00a0<\/i>Christoph Janz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also invested are Michael Hansen and Tom James. Michael is a seed investor and employee #1 at Zendesk and played a huge role in their success. Michael also hired me into Zendesk back in 2009, I knew almost nothing about business software but he gave me a chance and we ended up working closely together for over 5 years – you can read more about Michael (and Christoph) in Mikkel Svane’s new book Startupland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tom James founded his first startup in his early 20’s, IntecTelecom (ITL) which later listed on the LSE, since then he has invested in numerous early stage businesses including; Zendesk, Onelogin, Lapio, Kloudless, Holidog, SolanoLabs, Umantis and Ca7ch.<\/p>\n

What this means for our customers is simply that we’ll continue working hard on building and improving our product and service, but this improvement will start happening at a faster pace as we grow our team (did I mention we’re hiring?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re very happy to announce that we’ve received our first outside investment led\u00a0by Point Nine Capital<\/a>, with Michael Hansen<\/a> and Tom James as angel investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-we-build"],"yoast_head":"\nAnnouncing our Seed Investors | ChartMogul<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Point Nine Capital have led our seed investment of 600k with Tom James and Michael Hansen. 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