Mario Lebherz

Mario Lebherz is a Partner at Point Nine Capital based in Berlin, Germany, where he focuses on early-stage B2B SaaS and marketplace investments across the European technology ecosystem. Before transitioning to venture capital, he studied business at the University of Mannheim and co-founded WKN, a technology startup that was subsequently acquired by StepStone. As an investor, Lebherz has backed more than 50 companies at the seed and Series A stages, with a portfolio that includes notable European unicorns such as Taxfix, Personio, and Sennder. In 2024, he led a funding round for the AI hiring platform Inflection and recently co-authored a comprehensive report on European SaaS trends for the first quarter of 2025. Lebherz leverages his operational background to provide strategic support to founders building the next generation of enterprise software, developer tools, and financial technology.