Nicolas Blottnitz

Nicolas von Blottnitz is a Vice President at Headline, the global venture capital firm formerly known as e.ventures. His LinkedIn profile says his primary responsibility is early-stage investing for Headline’s US fund, where he uses data-driven sourcing to find opportunities in B2B SaaS, AI-enabled solutions, and PropTech.

He joined e.ventures in 2018, first in Berlin and later in San Francisco. His roles at Headline have included Analyst from February 2018 to January 2022, Senior Associate from January 2022 to February 2023, and Vice President from February 2023 onward. He says he built data-driven processes for sourcing, market analysis, due diligence, and portfolio support, and helped expand Headline’s junior investment team.

Before venture capital, von Blottnitz grew up in South Africa after being born in Germany. He graduated from Varsity College in Cape Town with a Bachelor of Commerce focused on finance, and represented Germany at the 2013 ISA Junior World Championship as a teenage surfer.

He also works on Headline’s Deepdive analytics platform, which is used to analyze product-market fit, unit economics, customer behavior, and capital efficiency. TechCrunch quoted him explaining that Deepdive goes beyond surface revenue metrics to understand customer behavior and retention dynamics.

• He describes his focus as founder-startup fit: “the skills and background that make an entrepreneur the exact person to start their business.”
• His stated investment philosophy on Headline’s team page is: “I look for businesses that build ever-lasting relationships with their customers.”
• He looks for “humble leadership” in entrepreneurs, according to his Headline profile.
• He favors data-backed signals of product-market fit, including retention, CAC, unit economics, cohort behavior, and capital efficiency.
• He has written that Headline wants businesses to operate at capital efficiency of at least 0.5, meaning $1 of burn should generate at least $0.50 of annualized gross profit growth.
• He has publicly focused on B2B SaaS, AI-enabled software, PropTech, consumer, fintech, marketplaces, and vertical SaaS.
• Headline’s broader US early-stage fund is described by the firm as a $400M San Francisco-based fund investing Seed-Series B across Application AI, PLG SaaS, Consumer Tech, Digital Health, and Marketplaces.