OUR COMMITMENT
SAP will commit up to 40 percent of the investable capital in the SAP.iO Fund and scale our SAP.iO Foundries with a focus on inclusive entrepreneurship.
The goal is to help at least 200 startups around the world within the next five years.
200+
startups funded or accelerated by 2023
Up to 40%
of investible capital from the SAP.iO Fund dedicated to inclusive entrepreneurship
8
global Foundries with inclusive cohorts for female and diverse founders
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OUR JOURNEY
Follow our journey as we further embed inclusion in SAP’s culture, in the cultures of customers and in the startups with which we engage.
Recent News
Investing in Female Founders — Lessons from Behavioral Finance, Gender Research and Real Life Experiences
A story of a conversation between an academic researcher, VC investor, CVC investor and an entrepreneur 2019 brought more female-founded unicorns than ever before, and more new female partners at VC firms. Despite this…
Read More “Have a good understanding of your strengths.” with Penny Bauder & Vanessa Liu
Vanessa Liu is the VP of SAP.iO, a global organization responsible for building an ecosystem of startups around SAP. In her role, she is overseeing SAP.iO’s North American Foundries in…
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Women Founders Unite Holiday Party
SAP.iO Foundry San Francisco hosted the Women Founders Unite Holiday Party. Women Founders Unite is on a mission to empower founders, business owners, and investors in the startup ecosystem globally and build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that supports every woman in their journey to building and scaling their startup and company.
Women of Color Talk Tech in Newtown Square
Sallie Jian, Head of SAP.iO Foundry New York hosted a special conversation with movers and shakers in the corporate realm, the non-profit sector and venture capital entrepreneurial space of the tech industry. Guest speakers included April Walker (Microsoft), Regina Gwynn (BWTT) and Jumoke Dada (HUE), who discussed how their experiences have shaped their careers.
Technovation 2020
SAP.iO Foundry San Francisco hosted Technovation for their Bay Area Technovation Challenge 2020 Launch. Every year, Technovation invites teams of young people from all over the world to learn and apply the skills needed to solve real-world problems through technology. SAP.iO's alumni Charu Sharma, Min Chen, and Jo Riley shared their stories and how they overcame some of the challenges women entrepreneurs face.
Women in Tech Summit at Austin Startup Week
Vanessa Liu, SAP.iO Foundries North America, gave the keynote address to kick off the Women in Tech Summit at Capital Factory for Austin Startup Week, one of the largest technology, innovation, and business events in Austin where SAP served as the title sponsor. The Women in Tech summit was a day full of programming to help inspire, engage and elevate female entrepreneurs and tech professionals.
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The Equity Gap: How Women are Left Out of the Power Club
Most people know that in the U.S. women are making 80 cents to every dollar a man makes in pay. But most people are unaware of an even larger and insidious gap—the equity gap. This figure far surpasses pay disparity.
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HBCU National BrainTrust
Vanessa Liu, VP of SAP.iO Foundries North America, joined an industry panel with leaders powering Black innovation through corporate venture capital efforts in this year’s HBCU Braintrust. Powerful partnerships with SAP, T-Mobile, IBM, Intel, and Amazon all investing in women, URM businesses, and academic programs help pave the way in making a difference in how these groups are empowered and funded.
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Enpact Female Tech
Businesses in Africa
SAP.iO Foundry Berlin and GIZ- funded program Female Tech Businesses in Africa (FEBA) met to exchange views with 9 leaders of women networks, multipliers and stakeholders from Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. Providing engineering skills to women, setting up women focused accelerators, helping women to get in tech boards were only some of the topic we could address.
Supporting
Women’s Healthcare
In partnership with HITLAB, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and BayerG4A, SAP.iO Foundry New York is proud to support the HITLAB World Cup Challenge 2019 which focuses on emerging technology applications and systems that improve medical care and the provision of healthcare among women worldwide.
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Women in Tech
Festival
As Silver Sponsor of the Women in Tech Festival, 5th Anniversary at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, SAP.iO is supporting and honoring women in business & leadership 2019.
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Unity + Inclusion
Summit
SAP.iO partnered with 500 Startups to run the 2019 Unity + Inclusion Summit in Miami for over 200 founders, investors and companies.
Read MoreInclusion at
SXSW
SAP.iO led the conversation about inclusive entrepreneurship at SAP's SDG Media Zone at SXSW.
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Girls
Talk
Christine Tao, Co-Founder & CEO of Sounding Board, SAP.iO Foundry SFC and Shuchi Rana, Head of SAP.iO Foundry SF shared the stage at Girl Talks, a forum for women to share & learn from one another's experiences hosted on behalf of the United Nations Foundation and Girl Up.
Culture Shifting
Weekends
SAP.iO hosts 300+ black business leaders who set sights on increasing racial diversity in tech.
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Becoming
Sheroes
SAP.iO Foundry San Francisco hosted Sairee Chahal, the Founder and CEO of Sheroes who shared her wisdom about lessons learned as an entrepreneur.
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Latino
Startup Alliance
Exploring how we can shape entrepreneurial participation by and funding available to Latino entrepreneurs.
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