SAP.IO, the early-stage venture arm of multinational enterprise software company SAP SE, has appointed Lior Weizman as director of its Tel Aviv-based accelerator program, SAP.IO Foundry, Weizman announced in a LinkedIn post Tuesday. In September, SAP.IO announced the seven startups selected for its first cohort.
To finish off the year, we take one more peek at SAP.io Munich Foundry’s Fall Cohort. In part two of our start-up feature we speak with Mathias Stiefel, CEO of 8select and Leon Szeli, CEO of Presize.
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Retail checkout-free technology provider Zippin has concluded a Series A funding round, with $12m, taking the company’s total funding to $15m.
The latest funding round was led by Evolv Ventures, which is a Kraft Heinz-backed venture fund focused on investing in tech companies involved in transforming the food and consumer packaged goods industry.
Other investors include SAP.iO, Scrum Ventures, Arca Continental, Nomura Research Institute and NTT DOCOMO Ventures.
Zippin’s existing investors Maven Ventures, Core Ventures Group, Pear Ventures and Montage Ventures were also part of the funding round.
BeeInstant has announced that it has been acquired by Instana Inc, the world’s leading provider of Automatic Application Performance Monitoring, headquartered in Chicago, U.S and Solingen, Germany. The two companies agreed to join forces to provide leading-edge solutions for serving the critical needs of application delivery teams, across several all stakeholders, from development to IT Ops, DevOps, SRE and executive management.
Oto, a startup spun off from research at SRI International to help customer service operations understand voice intonation, announced a $5.3 million seed round today. Participants in the round included Firstminute Capital, Fusion Fund, Interlace Ventures, SAP.iO and SRI International . The total includes a previous $1 million seed round, according to the company
SAP, the market leader in business software, has founded the SAP.iO Foundry to support young companies, in order to promote innovation both inside and outside the SAP world.
The participating teams of the global accelerator program receive cross-industry training and mentoring sessions for 12-14 weeks from internal and external experts, support for integration with SAP applications and access to SAP customers. The programmes end with a Demo Day, during which the startups present their solutions to SAP customers, partners and investors.
For the past few months, the German team from London & Partners has supported the SAP.iO Foundry program as a mentor in two German cities – Berlin and Munich. As the Mayor of London’s official promotional agency, London & Partners offers founders advice on internationalization and go-to-market strategies, set-up in London and access to the local eco-system. The mentoring sessions are the ideal first step to make it easier for young start-ups who want to expand into London to enter the local market.
In this first of two special feature episodes we take a look at SAP.io Munich Foundry’s Fall Cohort. Julian Krenge, CTO of Parcellab, and Babak Mirzaie, CEO of Expivi, tell us about their start-ups and experiences with SAP.
הסתיים בהצלחה הסבב הראשון של SAP.iO Foundry TLV, בו השתתפו שש חברות סטארט-אפ ישראליות, בראשן של שתיים מהן עומדות נשים צעירות.
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Zippin, a startup creating cashierless checkout experiences for retailers, announced today that it has raised a $12 million Series A round of funding led by Evolv Ventures, the venture fund backed by Kraft Heinz. Other investors include SAP.iO, Scrum Ventures, Arca Continental, and Nomura Research Institute and NTT DOCOMO Ventures from Japan.
Zippin is one of many companies looking to retrofit retailers such as supermarkets with technology to facilitate grab-and-go shopping with no checkout lines. Unlike most of its competition, Zippin doesn’t just rely on cameras and AI to keep track of what people pick up (and put back) while shopping. It also employs shelf-sensors for what it says is a more accurate analysis of what people take and keep as they walk out the door.
As part of today’s announcement, Zippin also said that it is making its technology more portable and accessible to retailers with the introduction of the Zippin Cube. The Zippin Cube is a modular, pre-fabricated cashierless store-in-a-box roughly 300 – 500 sq. ft. that can be assembled in under three weeks upon ordering.
The Corporate Startup Stars is a set of awards, now in its fourth year, which Nesta runs as part of the Startup Europe Partnership project, in partnership with Mind the Bridge.
Élaborer une stratégie de partenariats commerciaux ne peut être efficace que pour une startup suffisamment mature et structurée pour en affronter les contraintes. C’est la stratégie globale de la startup qui définit les partenariats commerciaux visés. Vous devrez donc connaître parfaitement les acteurs du marché que vous visez, leur position sur les différents marchés, leurs interlocuteurs, leurs solutions, et votre complémentarité.
For the fourth year running, startups across Europe have nominated the most active corporates in terms of open innovation as part of the Corporate Startup Stars Awards. Enel has secured the top position, followed by SAP and Telefónica according to the new ranking unveiled today during the SEP Scaleup Summit organized by Mind the Bridge at the Bolsa de Madrid.
Ce samedi 7 décembre 2019, Olivier Gambari, président d’iNex circular, Fabrice Bonnifet, directeur du développement durable du groupe Bouygues, et Catherine Garcera, directrice innovation et transformation chez SAP, se sont penchés sur les nouvelles technologies qui se mettent au service du développement durable dans l’émission Hors-Série Les Dossiers BFM Business présentée par Frédéric Simottel.
SAP Israel’s first startup accelerator program finishes successfully, with six participating startups, two led by female entrepreneurs. One of the six startups is already taking major steps on the eastern part of the world; YOUTILIGENT won the startup contest at the World Internet Conference, winning $500,000 to open a hub in China.
Alexa Gorman sucht für SAP die besten Software-Start-ups – und achtet dabei besonders auf diverse Teams.
Alexa Gorman weiß, was ein gutes Start-up ausmacht, trotzdem wollte sie selbst nie gründen. Das liegt daran, dass sie seit 20 Jahren einen Job bei SAP hat, der ihr “super viel Spaß macht”. Und davor war die Start-up-Welt noch eine andere. “Damals gab es keine Gründerkultur, keine Acceleratoren, kein Ökosystem”, sagt die 46-Jährige. Heute gibt es sie, die Inkubatoren und Acceleratoren – zu Deutsch: Beschleuniger, die Jungunternehmern helfen, zu starten und zu wachsen. Einer davon ist SAP.iO. Gorman ist Leiterin der Foundries, der lokalen Ableger, in Europa und Israel. 141 Start-ups haben die weltweit acht Foundries seit der Gründung 2017 gefördert. Die durchlaufen ein dreimonatiges Programm und dürfen am Ende ihre Software über eine SAP-Plattform anbieten. So bekommen die Start-ups Zugang zu SAP-Kunden und das Software-Unternehmen ein breiteres Angebot und eine Provision.
