Welcoming Laura to Point Nine
Today, we’re super pleased to announce that Laura Weritz has joined Point Nine as our Director of Platform.
Platform is a wide-encompassing term in the world of venture capital. It serves as a term that encompasses a lot of different initiatives for portfolio support.
At Point Nine, we’ve always believed in the power of community and throughout the years we’ve been building a tight-knit community of entrepreneurs building predominantly in B2B globally that care about giving back and supporting each other’s on their journeys. Through the years, we’ve organically brought founders together online and offline and developed an events calendar that caters to their needs.
We’re excited to have Laura join us to bring what we’ve done over the years to the next level.
Laura is no stranger to early-stage startups nor to Point Nine. After starting her career in brand strategy she joined our portfolio company cargo.one to build their marketing function and served as chief of staff working closely with the founders. Since then she’s advised startups on planning, OKRs, and how founders should develop their company OS.
As we thought about the right profile for our first-ever Director of Platform, we couldn’t help but think that someone who worked operationally inside an early-stage startup was key. An even stronger plus was that they’d been part of our community and knew the principles and values that guide it. In addition, the feedback we collected from portfolio founders that Laura was advising made it clear we had to bring her on board full-time.
The final bullet came directly from Oliver, one of the founders of cargo.one, who told my partner Louis when we did references that she was “overqualified for the role” :)
We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Laura to our small but mighty team. Our equal partnership now can count on Laura to support our founders in achieving their goals, driving performance, and beating the odds.
On behalf of everyone at Point Nine — welcome Laura